Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] [adj] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then on through beautiful Swiss scenery to Lake Lugano for lunch , before travelling back to Lake Como , and driving along Europe 's most spectacular lakeside road . |
| 2 | But Mum goes on about that wretched place as though he was chief jailer at Broadmoor . |
| 3 | ‘ Successive pairs of celebrities , one to open the envelope and read out the winner 's name , the other to hand over the bauble , live audience and viewers and listeners at home making fun of the acceptance speeches — brevity is brilliance — and executive types rolled out to ramble on about each different category , with entertainment acts in between . ’ |
| 4 | He was a small boy of six who lived just around the corner from her , and for days he had been going on about this great talking parrot his father had given him . |
| 5 | The pre-senter is now droning on about another minor leak of nuclear waste at Sellafield . |
| 6 | They got the wrong island , wrong producers , so what do they know , going on about these mad drug stories and us not getting our shit together ? |
| 7 | The rationalisation is one of several going on between various European defence companies in a shrinking market . |
| 8 | Next Friday , we 'll do our level best to keep er our hair on during another live edition of Central Weekend . |
| 9 | He sensed her bewilderment and became a shoulder for her to lean on and sometimes to cry on during this painful period . |
| 10 | the room over really but I mean if you can keep your heating on for that little bit of length of time |
| 11 | There was going to be very little room in Frederica Potter 's life from now on for this imposed world of people and chairs you had to have because they were there . |
| 12 | Ring Howard Foster on for this 80-peg match , tickets £5 all in . |
| 13 | There is no automatic electronic cast on for this double rib so E6000 knitters should follow the above instructions . |
| 14 | Playing hard to get is a game which can go on for some considerable time , especially if one has as ardent a suitor as the French . |
| 15 | After these exchanges , fighting in Kurdestan went on for some considerable time . |
| 16 | Most patients ( n=123 ) were operated on for presumed ulcerative colitis but 10 ( 8% ) are now known to have Crohn 's disease and a further 10 ( 8% ) have certain features of Crohn 's disease and have been labelled indeterminate colitis . |
| 17 | Another Bf109 was claimed shot down during this particular raid by Flt.Lt . |
| 18 | ‘ Ultimately , the customer is always going to call in through one particular vendor , but the hope of the alliance is that the vendors will work on a quid pro quo basis , ’ he added . |
| 19 | erm and I think that if it is pulled down for this new development , in ten year 's time we will look back and we will say ‘ Why did we do this ? |
| 20 | When she had tired of her games she would take wing and fly away , and even if she stayed , how likely would it be that she could ever settle down as that poor doctor 's wife ? |
| 21 | Other countries use bells to summon people to church but only the English go in for that cascading sound from a ring of six or more bells — ‘ change ringing ’ . |
| 22 | However , the Stuarts eventually got traded in for solid Hanoverian stock , and the latest evidence suggests that the South learned fast . |
| 23 | He flourished it as one of the dragons curved in for another low pass . |
| 24 | If he succeeds in stirring up tabloid backing again with ‘ the people 's champion against the gin-and-tonic brigade ’ , the theme of 1984 , then Yorkshire are in for another incendiary winter . |
| 25 | An' she drops in for another little drop , |
| 26 | When eventually she left the sitting-room to go to bed , she pattered into the hall , knowing in advance that she was in for another wretched night of it . |
| 27 | The term New Historicism has come in for considerable hostile criticism both from those who claim that there is nothing particularly new about it and among those who admire new historical methods but feel the term incorrectly suggests a unified theoretical field and subsequent critical practice within a body of critical writing in which much contending diversity exists . |
| 28 | Whilst the FADS of old went in for five-man random obscurity and ‘ playing bizarre rhythms as fast as possible ’ , their forthcoming album boasts structure , recurring themes and even the odd polished pop song . |
| 29 | How was she to explain that she did n't go in for this high-profile look ? |
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