Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] the [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He 's just the same , ’ Maggie said and continued on about the nurses ' home while Sheila bit her tongue . |
| 2 | This will involve tone as much as doctrine , but he would be as ill-advised to go on about the Government 's intention of building a classless society , which it ca n't build anyway , as to adopt the easy belief that the climate of opinion can be left to look after itself while ministers get on with the practical business of government . |
| 3 | We wo n't be able to nod off as news presenters drone on about the world 's woes and mother-in-laws ring with the latest family crisis . |
| 4 | ‘ He 's in there and you 're out here , carrying on for the children 's sake . |
| 5 | Mr Pierre Mauroy , an ex-prime minister and party workhorse , will stay on as the party 's first secretary . |
| 6 | I went in through the Marsden 's revolving doors for my first treatment thinking : ‘ This is the beginning . ’ |
| 7 | The DHAC and NILP supporters sought to get back into the chamber ; finding the doors locked , they got in through the mayor 's parlour and were joined in the gallery by Alderman Hegarty and Councillor Friel . |
| 8 | In through the cracker 's open end go hats and gifts . |
| 9 | In March Begum Zia was sworn in as the country 's first woman Prime Minister [ see p. 38102 ] . |
| 10 | This switch was intended to enable Roshanara to retain her influence by stepping in as the child 's regent . |
| 11 | The tale is in fact carefully tied in as the Shipman 's Tale at the beginning of fragment VII , with an endlink that binds it to the Prioress 's Tale that follows it . |
| 12 | Alain came in as the doctor 's car left the house and he stood at the foot of the bed and regarded her sternly . |
| 13 | Panic has set in as the league 's Draconian restructuring unfolds with four clubs relegated from Division One and seven from Division Two . |
| 14 | In the middle ages Margaret had had a wonderful time ; women had understood then that it was not to other mothers that you turn in childbirth , it is to those women who have lived it , who have been down between the dragon 's teeth , have travelled the dragons ' pathways and have lurked in the dark and boiling belly of pain , have been chewed and digested and emerged . |
| 15 | and among they put it down as the parents er ca n't control her . |
| 16 | Victims first know that they are marked down as the tiger 's next meal when those enormously powerful front feet hit them . |
| 17 | It is understood Tory Councillor Bill Woodhead will step down as the borough 's top civic dignitary after being charged with hitting his wife just hours after being elected . |
| 18 | On Feb. 21 Nakasone stepped down as the faction 's leader in favour of Michio Watanabe . |
| 19 | The show is hip and happening , dude : the audience looks as if it has just walked in off the King 's Road , the post-modernish set is ultra-cool , the show 's titles are dazzling , the best I 've seen on British television . |
| 20 | Male activists are out every night unless they stay in for the wife 's one night out . |
| 21 | Send the form to your local social security office , and you 'll be sent claim form BW 1 to be completed in order to receive the book of orders to cash in for the widow 's allowance . |
| 22 | ought to be said really , since Alan is not here and is erm is resigning , well perhaps that could come a little later on because I think both Joan and Alan er there should be some record other than this about the work they have put in for the Society er I mean the only idea I have , I do n't know how much of a a precedent this is , whether , whether anybody should be offered life membership of the the society or is that only for do you have to reach a certain age |
| 23 | The Spartans offence then fumbled the ball and seconds later running back Eric Okatu went in for the Tornadoes ' second T.D . |
| 24 | Within two minutes Mike Hall put Peter Dods in for the Barbarians ' third try , and another four followed in a procession interrupted by one for Newport by John Thomas . |
| 25 | The size and range of the country 's sex business may mean that Thailand is in for the world 's fastest upswing in HIV infection . |
| 26 | Oh I , I should think that about fifteen years ago er when erm the lighting manufacturers had decided that er there was a great deal more available in lighting than just the erm , type of glass bowls and shades that had been used , well in between the wars er , I mean after the war was over in nineteen forty six er they were still using the same things that they did before the war and this just carried on er and er it , it only within the last what I suppose fifty years that 's over |
| 27 | Probably the paper did n't even have wire service , and if it did , he 'd bet a dime that anything which had come in about the book 's author had simply been buried in the chaos then reigning in the newspaper office . |
| 28 | Well anyway George did tell me when I popped in after the funeral erm that you were hoping you 'd be here today , I said , oh well I said I 'll leave this here then you can . |
| 29 | Last autumn Mr Alton threatened to stand down after the party 's Harrogate conference endorsed a strong pro-abortion line . |
| 30 | With just two months of the year to go , the chances of coming in below the Government 's current target of £37 billion must now be good , though City experts pointed out last night that changes in VAT regulation may have brought payments forward from February and March to December and January . |