Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Girls have got on through sleeping with a director , although usually they gain little more than temporary advantage . |
| 2 | Erm Angela 's on about nipping from the army across into West Berk . |
| 3 | She should also be at school , and Noreen threatened to send her back to Uncle Michael who would take her to school every day , if she did n't stop going on about coming to the theatre . |
| 4 | The case came on for hearing at the beginning of April 1992 . |
| 5 | She stopped for a moment , and put her shoes back on for walking on the hard tarmac . |
| 6 | It was not until the end of the 18th century that the first bottle of claret as we now know it was put down for ageing at the famous Chateau Lafite in 1797 . |
| 7 | However , this is not done where Ord 17 r 11 ( automatic directions ) applies , unless the case had been set down for hearing in the High Court before transfer or a request for a day for hearing to be fixed is made under Ord 17 , r 11(3) ( d ) . |
| 8 | This is reflected in Articles of Government made under the 1986 Act in the procedures laid down for dealing with the exclusion of pupils from school and with the appeals which might arise from exclusion . |
| 9 | At that time there were no instructions laid down for dealing with the radio pirate vessels and , although this particular vessel was outside territorial waters , there was no reason why a cutter should not make reasonable enquiries from vessels in close proximity to our coast . |
| 10 | A lot of women put her down for working with a man , especially one like Francis , camp as Christmas in Tangiers , a slow fuse of lasciviousness smouldered in every phrase . |
| 11 | Staying so close to the palace will enhance your enjoyment , enabling you to make many mini-trips in between reading about the extraordinary life of its court . |
| 12 | Zelma , bless her , who has always regarded her son-in-law as a sort of concierge who somehow manages to throw up the odd masterpiece in between sitting at a desk , gazing uselessly out of the window and making endless messes in her kitchen with his coffee dregs and fag ash , had been popping into the study at fairly regular intervals , with unspecific enquiries . |
| 13 | A sentry let us in after looking at the Feldwebel s papers with a torch and we walked up a garden path towards a sort of suburban villa . |
| 14 | A child has been brought in after choking on a plum stone . ’ |
| 15 | A method for toning down after concentrating on the outside of the body , while at the same time exercising the internal organs , was invented by the old Chinese masters . |
| 16 | Kelly was due to step down after covering for the suspended Tracey against Arsenal last week . |
| 17 | It is as if , for these youngsters , the space they share on the North Bank is a way of magically retrieving the sense of group solidarity and identification that once went along with living in a traditional working-class neighbourhood . |
| 18 | Although I must admit … ’ he paused to slow the car down before turning off the road to come to a halt outside an attractive inn , thatched , gabled and wooden-beamed , its façade ablaze with baskets of flowers , its forecourt furnished with long trestle-tables and carved wooden chairs . |
| 19 | Of course Elmer Rice 's play had been censored and toned down before coming to the screen but Photoplay still needed to ask whether ‘ the public really wants a true cross-section of life presented as it actually happens ’ . |
| 20 | I only just managed to get it down before bolting from the tent just in time to get rid of the contents of my stomach . |
| 21 | They set off down the passage and the assistant sealed them in before returning to the shop . |
| 22 | Sam Yaeger spent Monday at the boatyard because he 'd been medically stood down from racing as a result of a fall , but by Tuesday he was racing again , and on Wednesday he rode at Ascot , so the boathouse was vulnerable all day Tuesday and again Wednesday morning . ’ |
| 23 | I 'd only just come in from seeing to a sick sow — I 'm a pig farmer ; Mrs Langton here at Broom House knows me well . ’ |
| 24 | But the floor was wet and I slid along before colliding with a slab of sprats , cod and ice which showered over me . |
| 25 | The miraculous tales were set down in writing at the very beginning of literacy , even before the Homeric poems of the eighth century BC . |
| 26 | Keep interest rates low ( at r 1 ) in order , say , to keep down the costs of investment , but also reduce money supply to a level of Q 2 The trouble here is that the government can not both control the money supply and keep interest rates down without running into the problem of disequilibrium . |
| 27 | leap in without looking at the detail of it , I think now the function heads namely you , |
| 28 | She always knocked and then walked in without waiting for a response . |
| 29 | He knocked and went in without waiting for an answer . |
| 30 | Then I went in without waiting for an invitation . |