Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I should have something to say later on about future care by Mr . |
| 2 | He 's going on about damn baths at the moment . |
| 3 | I found it incredibly erotic , and the more Dennis maundered on about boiled sweets on the nose , the more erotic it became . |
| 4 | LISTENING to Barenboim talk on about abstract matters like ‘ the sonic neutrality of the piano ’ , I began to understand why he had such a formidable reputation . |
| 5 | I 'm not on about houses I 'm on about main buildings like St Paul 's an' all that |
| 6 | Of the total 79 referrals received between October 1987 and March 1988 , the NSPCC team dealt with 50 cases alone , jointly investigated one with social services department staff and referred the remainder on for various reasons for example , secondary task work . |
| 7 | Like all long-term coughers he had developed a noise-reducing technique , and all that could be heard was a chuck-chuck-chuck sound that would go on for long minutes at a time , gradually winding down like a clockwork drummer until every scrap of air was squeezed out of his poor concrete lungs . |
| 8 | She 'll go up up the path and all I could see was this cat , and it was hanging on for dear life up this big tree and there |
| 9 | Never use wicker chairs to stand on for odd jobs around the house . |
| 10 | Have cockpit master switch and Pitot heat switch ON for prescribed time before checking that Pitot and static sources are in fact being heated . |
| 11 | It 's er in the report that we produced , most of the families are in fact single parent families , most of them are on Social Security benefits and have been on for considerable periods of time , but there are a number of people who are in employment or who have had periods of employment , but they are in low paid jobs , so when you 're talking about an income of one hundred pounds a week , with the sort of housing costs there are and other costs , then there simply is n't enough money to go round . |
| 12 | If the Conservatives are the largest single party , should he hang on as Prime Minister in the hope that he can do a deal with another party ? |
| 13 | Andrew Stavanger stayed on as managing director of the shipping company , with a seat on the board of the group . |
| 14 | DONALD Fothergill has a palpable and daily reminder of the responsibility he has taken on as managing director of Stockton-based Pickerings Lifts . |
| 15 | Meanwhile , the country was being flooded with rifles run in through French Somaliland with the connivance of French officials . |
| 16 | Dods had his men down for extra training during the week and that had made all the difference , he said . |
| 17 | Pigs may have spent some time with the swineherd in the distant woodland , but part of the wood would have been cropped for fuel , poles , wood for repairs to buildings , fences , implements and so on , while a few trees may have been cut down for constructional work on the bridge over the Yeo or to build a new house . |
| 18 | After 400 yds , just before ridge rises , bear half left down off ridge : soon lake and outdoor centre passed at start of walk are seen below — make down for right-hand end of lake . |
| 19 | During his two years in charge , he was responsible for the replacement as manager of Billy Bingham by Gordon Lee , stepping down for personal reasons after a comparatively short spell . |
| 20 | Avoid sitting down for long periods without a break . |
| 21 | This can be broadly broken down for descriptive purposes as a program staff of 11 , and a support staff of 4 . |
| 22 | She skipped in the stableyard and jumped up and down off orange boxes in the storeroom and occasionally thought back to her carefree days before Sylvester went mad on their behalf . |
| 23 | On Dec. 17 Franz Vranitzky was sworn in as Federal Chancellor at the head of a " grand coalition " of his own Socialist Party ( SPÖ ) and the centre-right People 's Party ( ÖVP ) . |
| 24 | On April 26 Esko Aho , 36 , was sworn in as Prime Minister of a four-party centre-right coalition . |
| 25 | Benazir Bhutto has been sworn in as Prime Minister of Pakistan for the second time after a decisive victory in the country 's parliament over her greatest rival , the Muslim League leader , Nawa Shariff . |
| 26 | Benazir Bhutto , leader of the Pakistan People 's Party ( PPP ) which had gained the largest number of seats in elections to the National Assembly held on Nov. 16 , 1988 ( see pp. 36347-48 ) , was sworn in as Prime Minister on Dec. 2 , and a new federal Cabinet was appointed on Dec. 4 . |
| 27 | Their agreement made no mention , however , of the interim government led by academic and former opposition politician Amos Sawyer [ see pp. 31282 ; 32297 for his chairmanship of national constitutional commission in 1981-83 ; pp. 33322-23 ; 34146 for his arrest in August 1984 and subsequent detention while chairman of the Liberian People 's Party ] , who had been sworn in as Prime Minister on Nov. 22 under ECOWAS auspices . |
| 28 | Prime Minister : Begum Khaleda Zia was sworn in as Prime Minister in March 1991 , and from October also held the portfolios of Defence , Establishment and Cabinet Division . |
| 29 | K. Vijayabhaskara Reddy was sworn in as Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh on Oct. 9 to replace N. Janardhan Reddy , who resigned after the High Court ruled that permission to open a private medical college in Nellore , granted to Reddy 's wife , had been " vitiated by bias " . |
| 30 | On April 6 Churchill Alemao was sworn in as Chief Minister at the head of a Progressive Democratic Front ( PDF ) government . |