Example sentences of "[adv prt] [verb] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A few youngsters may go on sniffing for a while — perhaps regularly with their friends . |
| 2 | We are looking forward to a visit from prominent physiotherapist Vivian Grisogono , who , with her vast and expert knowledge of treating sports injuries , has much to impart about the way we enthusiastically drive our bodies on to perform at a pace that often proves harmful . |
| 3 | We went on walking for a while , in silence . |
| 4 | She joined Jean 's class in 1962 and went on to train as a teacher . |
| 5 | He went on to work as a designer and translator for an Austrian publisher , where the manager , Otto Preminger ( later a celebrated film director ) introduced him to Max Reinhardt . |
| 6 | He went on to work in a hospital ship in the Mediterranean — a year which he later described as being one of the most enjoyable of his life . |
| 7 | You go on to pass through a nature reserve at Redgrave and Lopham Fen , and on through Royden Fen , also managed as a nature reserve . |
| 8 | He thought of sitting down to wait for a break in the storm but that could have been all night so he struggled on downhill , angling a little to the left , until he met the treeline at the bottom of the meadow . |
| 9 | She settled down to wait with a book on caving she found in his bookcase , but after a while she had to acknowledge he 'd been gone longer than she 'd expected . |
| 10 | ‘ Well , fifty 's gone already in backhanders to a couple of the girls at Central Records . |
| 11 | I crouched down to hide behind a pillar , and watched . |
| 12 | you ca n't settle down to work on a project even though it interests you |
| 13 | With no casualties to deal with , but with new staff and better equipment our doctors settled down to work with a will for the children from ‘ Peabody buildings ’ at the back of the hospital who had either come back from evacuation , or who would not go anyway . |
| 14 | I got some quiet music and sat down to listen for a minute . |
| 15 | And Mum and Dad are going off on holiday on Saturday , so they wo n't be popping in to visit for a couple of weeks . ’ |
| 16 | POP mogul Pete Waterman is turning his multi-million empire upside down searching for a spy . |
| 17 | This meant that Jocasta was unlikely to come bouncing out and invite her in to listen to a Mahler symphony on her record player . |
| 18 | I mean I suppose there is in all social work in a sense , that if you go in to look at a family and , and you 're trying to assess you know whether the children should be taken into care , well you 're exercising a a sort of statutory erm er sort of responsibility , and as far as the clients are concerned , er if you , like that can sort of get in the way of er er a more human sort of relationship if you see what I mean , because |
| 19 | If the carer moves in to look after a couple ( eg elderly parents ) on the death of one spouse the tenancy goes to the surviving spouse . |
| 20 | I thought that if I took him down to paddle for a while , it would cool him down and distract him , so he would be able to sleep . |
| 21 | Every road you go down leads to a discovery . |
| 22 | The original bouquet for this picture was exceptionally large , so I have not been able to reproduce a life-sized replica but instead have scaled it down to fit into a picture frame . |
| 23 | Nick stayed at Muirfield for a morning press conference next day and then flew down to play in a charity pro-am . |
| 24 | We carried our own humble bags across the road , and lay down to sleep on a gravel slope in the lee of a hut . |
| 25 | Colourful adverts for the Farley 's drink in magazines show a child snuggling down to sleep with a cup slipping from his hand , and the slogan : ‘ Five minutes ago he was demolishing the house . ’ |
| 26 | Colourful magazine adverts for the Farley 's drink show a child snuggling down to sleep with a cup slipping from his hand , and the slogan : ‘ Five minutes ago he was demolishing the house . ’ |
| 27 | A Soviet tank may not be comfortable to ride in compared with a NATO tank , but it is reliable , easy to repair , and built quite deliberately for a particular kind of terrain , support system and warfare . |
| 28 | His parachute was caught by turbulence as he came in to land on a school playing field . |
| 29 | The small jet came in to land with a rush at Marco Polo Airport and , brakes squealing a protest , taxied clear of the runway . |
| 30 | They came in to land in a snowscape , the lights along the thin ribbon of recently cleared runway coming into view and stretching out in front of them as the Seneca descended on its final approach . |