Example sentences of "[adv prt] [verb] [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He went on gazing into the flames and she knew his thoughts were too far away for her words to reach him . |
| 2 | He carried on walking through the bodies , looking at the nurses . |
| 3 | They carried on walking round the side-shows . |
| 4 | But Miss Banks-Smith went on to worry about the effects of such overwhelming attention : ‘ You wonder with something like guilt whether television was good for her . |
| 5 | Jack and Richard Hannon keep on banging in the winners while others are rushing about like headless chickens in the belief that the sky is falling down . |
| 6 | She went on to work for the Friends ' Committee in France , Austria , Poland , and Greece . |
| 7 | Next month he travels to Nuremburg to do parish work before going on to work in the archives in the Papal capital . |
| 8 | Peter Morgan had no complaints , however , and went on to work in the hotels and restaurants of the Lyons empire . |
| 9 | Diana and Charles stooped down to search through the clothes . |
| 10 | When the gunmen climbed in to sit on the benches at the side they had to put their booted feet on the prisoners . |
| 11 | They 've come along to talk about the Services for Industry programme , and what the University can offer local firms . |
| 12 | Oh no , Jinny thought as he bent down to fiddle with the controls of the video recorder . |
| 13 | Went in to look for the seeds so I m I might have changed , just gone , I du n no . |
| 14 | Just before she turned the sign on the door round to read ‘ Closed ’ , a woman came in to look at the toys . |
| 15 | Then I hurried down to look at the ruins I had seen earlier , before the next onslaught of rough weather could begin . |
| 16 | IN MRS Barrass ' description of ‘ hunting horror ’ ( HAS Jan 29 ) it is difficult to believe that the couple running up and down egging on the hounds ( not dogs , please ) were real hunt supporters . |
| 17 | About 40,000 brokerage accounts were transferred to Shearson Lehman Hutton Inc. in the USA , while in London the Bank of England and city institutions stepped in to deal with the consequences of the collapse on the foreign exchange . |
| 18 | Starting in South Island , you will find that flying in to land amid the snowfields of Mount Cook or the ice of Fox Glacier of Franz Josef in the Southern Alps is something PPL visitors can unfortunately only do as passengers in the fixed-wing or chopper flights that operate out of local airfields . |
| 19 | At no stage would this reference ever be admissible because it 's not going to be relevant after your shield 's gone in because your shield going in relates to the questions understanding be agree or correct me but this is how I understand the situation . |
| 20 | The terrier allowed himself to be dragged down to lie on the blankets , and Theda was able to see her new mistress in the light afforded by a lamp on her bedside table and a set of two candelabra resting on a nearby chest of drawers . |
| 21 | Filmmakers settled down to live with the Americans , having decided against launching any further substantial challenges on their home turf . |
| 22 | Ranch meals are invariably big and hearty , and the smaller the ranch the more likely it is you 'll be sitting down to eat with the wranglers , many of whom are great characters . |
| 23 | It was an old thing with spikes and flaps which you could lift up and down to get at the mechanics . |
| 24 | Kelly carried on looking over the books but his heart was n't in it . |
| 25 | Then she went on to elaborate with the facts she 'd learned from Leo . |
| 26 | We went on to talk about the articles in Time and Tide that had so provoked Rebecca West , and Father D'Arcy observed how , in dealing with ‘ difficult ’ correspondents , it was important to strike the right note in replying . |
| 27 | ( Saint Teresa goes on to talk about the ill-effects of reading for amusement — specifically reading books of chivalry — but that does not invalidate this demonstration of the role of reading and play in childhood . ) |
| 28 | He turned to look at me as I approached , then carried on tending to the cows . |
| 29 | She put it down , all the same , on the counter , but we did n't talk much longer as the revellers from the rear began coming through to go to the bedrooms . |
| 30 | And when you get to er to the landing you turn it round through forty five degrees and then down a little bit further and eventually you tip it over to go down the stairs . |