Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Land that is cultivated or grazed intensively near the croft is often referred to as inbye to distinguish it from common grazings and more distant fields .
2 Soviet efforts to minimize the impact of his resignation internationally included a Congress resolution passed overwhelmingly at the end of the debate affirming the continuity of foreign policy .
3 On the following day he condemned it as " illegitimate and invalid " and rejected opening formal negotiations , this position being reiterated in a resolution passed overwhelmingly by the Congress on March 15 .
4 Bannen tried to take his son 's hand , but his fingers passed right through the simularity field .
5 At one stage she somehow got on to the subject of coal and said she simply did not believe it came from wood .
6 Before they got on to the subject of the commune they had been discussing which item of Hilbert 's former property they should sell next .
7 We somehow got on to the subject of detective stories , for it had been with some surprise that I learnt at the Old Parsonage meeting that at one time he had read them with avidity .
8 The traffic into Belfast was heavy , and it was a while before they got on to the motorway .
9 It was perfectly possible to see how Billy could have vaulted the fence , got on to the kitchen roof via one of the barrels and from there on to the main roof and all the connecting ones down to Sunil 's house .
10 I paced the house for an hour or so and then got on to the council office .
11 They got on to the airfield that night and started to place their bombs , but as the aircraft were widely dispersed , this took time in the dark .
12 They got on to the field without difficulty in the middle of a bombing raid by the RAF on Benghazi , and sat there while their leader gave them a lecture on deer-stalking in the Highlands .
13 Cecilia got on to the platform .
14 Somehow we then got on to the theme of French poetry , and Eliot expressed surprise at one of Herbert Read 's recent pronouncements on Laforgue and another nineteenth-century poet I can not recall and about whom at the time I knew too little to be able to arrive at an opinion .
15 I got on to the roof : the upper levels of mortar had crumbled so much that it was doubtful if the stack would survive the next gale .
16 ‘ I got on to the hospital and then the local police lab and said I was from her insurance company and we operated a no pay clause if drink-driving was involved . ’
17 He knew the man would be magnificent when he got on to the stage that night .
18 She added : ‘ When he eventually got on to the train he left the bird on a seat next to his cabin .
19 In Philip Burton 's version , from then on , all was sweetness ; Richard occasionally went back to the house of Cis and Elfed ( on Sunday mornings ) and the two of them got on with the transformation of the street boy into the stage man .
20 She went , and I got on with the life of Ellen Parkin , about to emerge from her chrysalis , to spread her wings as Eleanor Darcy .
21 ‘ I got on with the work , tried very hard to stay jovial , and kept a smiling face .
22 Deliberately she pushed the letter to the bottom of the pile , to save it for later while she got on with the work which awaited .
23 Morley 's subjects were delightful , talented young people , clearly , who got on with the job and threatened no one .
24 As it is , he has gone down as a highly skilled bowler who , because he lacked the flamboyance of some of his colleagues , attracted less attention than many of them ; but who consistently , almost stealthily , got on with the job of collecting three or four wickets in innings after innings after innings .
25 ‘ So he had a few puffs before he grabbed her round the neck and got on with the job … ’
26 But fortunately his present associates in the adult world , Biddy and Knacker Bean and Sergeant Potter , did not waste time questioning one 's motives like old Sylvester ; they just got on with the job in hand .
27 In the end , of course , we all pulled our socks up and got on with the job .
28 He got on with the job .
29 And Graham acknowledged : ‘ He accepted what was said , and got on with the job .
30 PIETER Muller read the messages of hate , shrugged and got on with the job of becoming one of the best centres in the world .
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