Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before that time , knowledge and wisdom were passed on through the spoken word , as they still are in much of the world . |
| 2 | THE pathetic objections voiced by the Lords to allowing peerages to pass on through the female line really rammed home to me how outmoded this institution is . |
| 3 | ‘ Where are we going ? ’ she asked , as the car moved smoothly down the road and then on through the small village just beyond . |
| 4 | They walked on through the driving rain . |
| 5 | The Inspector pushed on through the unfamiliar undergrowth , ‘ 1965 to 1972 , Priest in charge , St James 's Malta ; 1973 to 1980 , Priest in charge , St George 's Monte Regia ; 1982 to 1987 , Vicar of St Ermyntrude Warnford Parva ; 1987 , Rector , St Benet Oldfield with St Nicholas Nether Oldfield . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Do n't worry , ’ he said , skipping on through the amateur boxing and back around to the broadcast channels again . |
| 7 | I do n't intend to discuss the housing , whether seven hundred acres , sorry seven l land for seven hundred houses is owned by the City of York , that 's not part of our case one way or the other , but we have offered you a distribution of the Greater York provision figure between the districts , because from Barton Willmore 's very extensive experience of participation in local plan work up and down the country , I think we share the view that er City of York have , that Ryedale have , my colleagues to the left and right on this side of the table have , that there does need to be a distribution , otherwise there will be at best confusion as to whether local plans comply with the structure plan , and at worst a game of of pass the parcel and everybody will be conforming , but nobody will actually be possibly meeting the figures , and that is the situation that I do n't think anybody would wish to see as a result of er the outcome of of alteration number three , I mean I do n't know how the County Council would would really be able to say whether they thought a local plan conformed to the structure plan , without knowing what that distribution was , perhaps in some bottom draw manner which is not now the approved way of going about these things , so that I think there does need to be a distribution for the proper planning of York , and before coming on to our to explain our figures a little bit , I should also say , perhaps in in response to remarks Mr Thomas made earlier on about the general character of the York area and the need to protect that , that that course is precisely what the greenbelt is for , and what it does , it is n't necessary to extend that concept across the whole of the vale of York , and therefore to seek to er discount migration outside the greenbelt . |
| 8 | Zoya rattled on about the appalling queue , and some interesting gossip she 'd picked up there , but Anna cut her short , saying she was busy and would see her later . |
| 9 | This ex-rugger international has , for reasons best known to himself , tired of rambling on about the oval ball game ; as a consequence he has taken to bespattering the media with stories about his allegedly ‘ sexy ’ life and times in terms which strive risibly to emulate the writings of the greatest rock journalist in the world — just like practically everyone else in the media has been muscling in on my territory in recent times . |
| 10 | I went on about the other woman , how she looked and what she was like in bed . |
| 11 | Stop go stop going on about the bloody microphone ! |
| 12 | I 've been reading Richard Hoggart 's The Uses of Literacy on this journey ; he goes on about the working class not being able to think " abstractly , generally , metaphysically or politically . |
| 13 | But as I read on about the growing disharmony between Mrs. Proudie and Mr. Slope , Trollope rose in my estimation and count him among my favourite authors . |
| 14 | Frank what about this argument that 's going on about the free kick that was disallowed ? |
| 15 | As the prospects of a Tory victory recedes , the likes of Sunderland car magnate Sir Tom Cowie and Tyneside bus burgher Martin Ballinger have been banging on about the Tory cause . |
| 16 | Whingeing on about the sodding film . |
| 17 | I wo n't go banging on about the open fireplace again , but to my mind that was certainly one of them . |
| 18 | Not since Harold Wilson prattled on about the white heat of the technological revolution — or some similar meaningless platitude — and launched Concorde , has there been so much talk about innovation and our intellectual heritage . |
| 19 | We have a joint planning officer , and we 've got quite a lot of joint erm of joint planning going on between the voluntary sector and the Health Authority and the Social Services . |
| 20 | Sin and sex do somehow go together and this seems to tie in with the distinction I made much earlier on between the scientific view that man differs from other animals only in degree and the religious view that there is an essential difference in kind . |
| 21 | Later on during the Civil War the Major was carrying dispatches from Bridgnorth to Shrewsbury when he was captured by Cromwell 's troops . |
| 22 | His return to Eaton Park could scarcely have come at a more opportune moment considering that Gordon Hamilton , Stuart Laing , Norman Robson and Davy Nicholl have all moved on during the close season . |
| 23 | The context-specificity of latent inhibition is not be explained ( or at least , not entirely ) in terms of interference effects that go on during the conditioning phase of the procedure . |
| 24 | He came on for the injured Mumby and headed in a perfect Measham cross to score his first goal for the club . |
| 25 | They had fetched him for Christmas and he was staying on for the New Year . |
| 26 | And I take it erm the commission structure is just the same if I am continuing a contract on for the following year . |
| 27 | Memphis signed on for the subsequent tour and expanded the exhibition , featuring the Rameses Colossus in the 1987 showing in the Memphis Cook Convention Center . |
| 28 | The last I heard Trish was going to become a teacher , I mean I I we are supposed to be trying to think about whether we can have a sh a panel that we of people that we can call on for the short term crisis appointments or whatever , but |
| 29 | Arguments about this change continue to rage , and will probably burn on for the foreseeable future . |
| 30 | The light will be left on for the whole time . |