Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] [noun] 's [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From this garden Coleridge could either walk on through Poole 's orchard and a ‘ fine meadow ’ to the home of his new friends , John and Anna Cruikshank , or he could negotiate Poole 's tanyard and its ‘ Tartarean tan-pits ’ to reach the Castle Street house itself . |
| 2 | So , I do get a bit ac , I mean , th there 's , there 's one young girl in the class and , we were on about women 's role in society and going on about third world woman , but even western woman have their position , you know , she does the housework |
| 3 | Pollitt thundered on about Italy 's invasion of Abyssinia which he and his party roundly condemned . |
| 4 | Whooshing on about David 's beauty and elegance on the top layer , she carves her and her disciples up a treat underneath . |
| 5 | he 's on about dog 's leg being bad and Bill 's had a look see if he 's dented car cos he 'd just |
| 6 | Mr Healey here went on about Labour 's success in the Euro-elections ; I said it was just mid-term and all that ; and he said , With respect , no . |
| 7 | I did not need to go on about Jean-Claude 's obstinacy , foolishness and arrogance . |
| 8 | Everyone goes on about Cher 's dresses , showing her navel . |
| 9 | Takes more than a little snow ( like four feet of it in the suburbs ) to slow down the charging bull of Oracle Corp , and the company yesterday said that ‘ Through Rain , Sleet or the Coldest Arctic Snow in Century , the show will go on for Oracle 's Product Announcement of Cooperative Development Environment in New York City today ! ’ adding that ‘ If you are stuck on the sunny west coast attending UniForum , please join us for the delayed CDE announcement and demonstration . ’ |
| 10 | We 'll probably have something on for Mother 's day . |
| 11 | QPR 's right back Bardsley came on for Arsenal 's Lee Dixon at the start of the second half , but lasted only 19 minutes before limping off . |
| 12 | Because Boo is locked away , it makes his character very mysterious and at first it 's hard to know if the rumours spread around about Boo only coming out at night to hunt for his dinner , eating squirrels and peering in through people 's windows are true , but gradually as we read more into the book , we are given clues to suggest that he is not the monster , people make him out to be . |
| 13 | That time , I came in through Queen 's Square , walked down the lane to the union and out towards the hospital . |
| 14 | The food to feed this hungry nation has been coming in through Mogadishu 's port . |
| 15 | Yeah , that 's it , double cooker actually , gon na try , get some flooring down for Colin 's mum , just gon na put some cheap lino down for now |
| 16 | well she came down for Keith 's sake , she came down to Bournemouth for holidays and erm like it so much she brought the company . |
| 17 | She began to wriggle down off Contralto 's back . |
| 18 | The First Deputy Prime Minister , Goh Chok Tong , was duly sworn in as Lee 's replacement . |
| 19 | I mean there was a big battle to get women into the Working Men 's Clubs , because they could only come in as men 's guests . |
| 20 | On the ground a sheep lay , its four feet tied together , its head flat on the stones , held down between Anderson 's boots its white , frightened eyes were turning upwards Anderson stood above it . |
| 21 | Ian McGeechan , who stepped down as Scotland 's coach this month , had already been appointed as Lions ' coach against the All-Blacks . |
| 22 | Ian McGeechan , who stepped down as Scotland 's coach this month , had already been appointed as Lions ' coach against the All-Blacks . |
| 23 | He had put her down as Tiffany 's successor . |
| 24 | THE New Zealand selectors of the World XV who invited South African centre MARTIN KNOETZE to step in for England 's Will Carling have been labouring under a rather severe misapprehension . |
| 25 | A couple to note in the Sturt colours are Scintillas Crest and Scintillas Silk — who have been pencilled in for Thursday 's meeting . |
| 26 | Equality before the law , certainly , but last in for God 's sake slam the door . |
| 27 | The mantle of scapegoat was passed down through Scotland 's goal keeping history from Martin to Haffey , to Kennedy to Rough and then to the most unlikely scapegoat , the Aberdeen and Manchester United goalkeeper Jim Leighton . |
| 28 | Even as he closed the door behind him , the thallium was on its way down through Donald 's oesophagus , slithering towards his stomach and digestive tract , where his body chemicals would turn it into a disease Donald would have difficulty in recognizing . |
| 29 | And in between Terry 's forays into various shops did indeed view the bizarre remains in St Peter 's Church . |
| 30 | However some of her descriptive passages are excellent and the book is on firmest ground in the sections in between Rosandra 's accounts of her past . |