Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] the [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He would stay on through the night although the local doctor had said it was probably useless . |
| 2 | But before a settlement is reached , this accounting controversy will rumble on through the winter and early spring . |
| 3 | a telephone call will tell you whether you 've the papers wo n't be drawn up but they will be able to tell him on through the phone whether it 's okay . |
| 4 | His objective had to be to drive on through the tumult and horror as best they could , not to get involved with individuals or groups , not to be sidetracked , so as to reach that further side , there to turn and repeat the dire process , difficult as this must be . |
| 5 | The debriefing had gone on through the afternoon and early evening in the sound-proofed rooms of their headquarters . |
| 6 | We drove on through the village and turned into a clearing surrounded by a thickly wooded area . |
| 7 | Eileen lingered on through the morning and the brown September afternoon , her life twirling like a hectic-stricken leaf on a thin stem . |
| 8 | Tomorrow she would motor on through the German and the Czechoslovakian borders to her destination in Mariánské Láznë . |
| 9 | The second was an untidy and protracted business , stretching on through the spring and summer and coinciding with the refusal of The Possessed to be contained within the limits of a ‘ tendentious ’ sideshow . |
| 10 | They 've been revolting for years under the surface and then some thing happens that make it possible course the continued revolutions have gone on through the world and because they 've seen the success of a revolution in Russia although we did n't know the full facts of it in the West , it was , it did establish a huge area in the wake of a revolution . |
| 11 | ‘ Well , when we were going on about the Universe and all the galaxies and the Big Bang , we talked about gravity forces — between the galaxies — trying to pull them together . |
| 12 | So , we bang on about the play and the staging and the big themes , and , if there 's any space left , then , as the chairman of Critics ' Forum wearily intones , ‘ I suppose we ought to say something about the performances . ’ |
| 13 | Then the ginger kitten I hid in the garden shed and mother found it and there was a monumental scene and Helen called her a beast ; funny , I can hear it now , mother going on about the kitten and Helen suddenly exploding and mother 's face . |
| 14 | I was on about the necklace and you said it was a bit pricey |
| 15 | I wanted to put that in , rather than going on about the deprivation and the tragedy of divorce and broken families . ’ |
| 16 | Ayrton Senna is always carrying on about the intellectual and spiritual fascination of discovering his own limits in a racing car . |
| 17 | ‘ She kept going on about the fox and coughing . ’ |
| 18 | I think we had better try and influence that as churches not that we should about the suffering that goes on about the death that goes on , but I think we ought to give all this another dimension in churches . |
| 19 | ‘ I do n't want to go on about the amount or work — everybody works hard . |
| 20 | That part of the package has to be right , but it 's impossible to separate it from the consultation that goes on between the customer and the supplier before the sale is clinched . |
| 21 | There was an open war going on between the child and the nun , and the class was aware of it and daily seemed to await events . |
| 22 | Murderous and anguished work — the thinking that goes on between the rehearsal and the deed itself . |
| 23 | And major differences emerged very early on between the English and European movements . |
| 24 | such a vertical representation tells us nothing about the relationships that go on between the centre and field offices . |
| 25 | The gently raked-back pointy-esque headstock is again scarfed on between the nut and the first machine . |
| 26 | Some of the children were screaming as they watched the tussle going on between the nun and the girl whom they secretly admired and envied because she was n't afraid of the dreaded Sister Mary . |
| 27 | I leave my heating on during the night because I do n't want to get up in a cold flat but people I know try to save their money by living in the cold . ’ |
| 28 | The Prime Minister gave his go-ahead at a meeting with the Chancellor , Treasury Chief Secretary Michael Portillo , Social Security Secretary Peter Lilley and Employment Minister Michael Forsyth , after being told that doctors , especially in inner city areas , sign people on for the benefit because it pays more than dole money . |
| 29 | The Prime Minister gave his go-ahead at a meeting with the Chancellor , Treasury Chief Secretary Michael Portillo , Social Security Secretary Peter Lilley and Employment Minister Michael Forsyth , after being told that doctors , especially in inner city areas , sign people on for the benefit because it pays more than dole money . |
| 30 | They used to put the cloth on for the winter and take it off during the summer . |