Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The exhibition continues into twentieth-century painting with works of Futurism , the Cubist-Futurist Russians , American Cubism , Precisionism represented by Charles Demuth and Charles Sheeler and thence on through the various transformations that the art of this century has seen . |
| 2 | We wandered past the Delhi Gate and on through the crumbling streets of Old Delhi ; as we went , Pakeezah stared sadly around her . |
| 3 | Patronage did not die out with industrialization ; it lived on through the honorific offices of county clubs and national bodies . |
| 4 | He urged them on through the mounting waves until they too reached the Rebecca , and he was able to ram one hole , fill it with pitch , then another , and another , round the hull beneath the overhang of the bows , in a rain of missiles , with fire sizzling around him , and his fellow fighters hanging on , hoping for the moment when the timbers would be ablaze . |
| 5 | ‘ Anyway , ’ said Lydia , sitting up , ‘ it was Beuno who went on about the golden emerods . ’ |
| 6 | Most letters asked for autographs or photographs , some complained of or praised a person interviewed or view expressed , and there was always a sprinkling of old dears short of correspondents who rambled on about the old days . |
| 7 | The first lecture I gave I was going on about the different approaches to psychology . |
| 8 | ‘ I was going on about the relative merits of casseroling and roasting . |
| 9 | I 'm just a little bit concerned that if we do delay it while discussions are going on about the unitary authorities and such like , we 'll put restrictions on Mr running it as a commercial enterprise , and I think we have got to make sure that any long term deferral on this , we do n't inhibit him rationalising selling off the odd cottage and this sort of thing , and the farmhouse as we go along , and amalgamating ones because I think it 's , he 's got to be able to run it as a commercial proposition during the course of deliberations . |
| 10 | She 's already provided the couple with a tape of tribal fertility dances to ‘ release endorphins in the pelvic region ’ and before long she 's going on about the healing properties of dolphins . |
| 11 | The global data structure , the Chart , would provide an easily accessible record of what exactly was going on between the different components . |
| 12 | I waved to Didier and walked on between the pollarded limes . |
| 13 | Two of those references are to research by Professor Harry Smith and his colleagues in Birmingham — work which has certainly moved on during the intervening decades . |
| 14 | we replied that our only object was to secure a Government on such lines and with such a prospect of stability that it might reasonably be expected to be capable of carrying on the war ; that in our opinion his Government , weakened by the resignations of Lloyd George and Bonar Law and by all that had gone on during the past weeks , offered no such prospect and we answered the question therefore with a perfectly definite negative . |
| 15 | We want to give the children positive memories which they can draw on during the difficult times at home to build a better country . |
| 16 | And a battle is on for the divided loyalties of the younger McCloskey brothers , Jonathon and Martin . |
| 17 | The race is on for the spare hand-outs |
| 18 | He pulled rank and went to bed at half past eleven , leaving me on for the late-night drinks . |
| 19 | In the end , they held on for the vital points , having gained five in their last three games to ensure safety . |
| 20 | This extends to his judicious choice of tempi which thankfully avoids the ‘ brakes on for the big melodies ’ approach , which in some versions comes close to collapsing the entire edifice under its own emotional weight . |
| 21 | On the other hand , two crews decided to run beyond the jetty and get in through the low reeds beyond a willow tree at then end of the jetty . |
| 22 | A heavy south easterly swell rolling in through the wide sounds to the north of Bressay threw Venturous on her beam ends several times , so much so that fuel oil spilled over through the deck breather pipes . |
| 23 | It was a slow , infuriating process , and as A roads gave way to B and Robyn neared her destination already two hours late , the slowly darkening skies became as black and as desperate as Robyn 's frame of mind , until the heavens opened and it started to pour — not reasonable , perfectly acceptable drops of rain from a warm July sky , but pounding , penetrating torrents that battered and bounced off the roof of the jeep and seeped in through the ill-fitting windows . |
| 24 | The first time she rang the bell and went in through the front doors of the elegant old house where the showrooms were situated ( Mattli had no rear entrance ) Paula felt she was stepping into the place of her dreams . |
| 25 | In addition to the students coming in through the normal channels , two non-uniform routes have emerged during the eighties . |
| 26 | The County Council has been very active in trying to find a way forward which retains the objective of relieving the A ten eighty eight of lorries , but reduces the rat run in through the small villages using what are no more than country lanes . |
| 27 | The rooms seemed bare , she thought , peering in through the dusty panes . |
| 28 | Do you feel that it 's pointing the right way , bringing the sun in through the right windows at the right time of day ? |
| 29 | Without waiting for an answer , she piled into the back — ‘ Are n't there any seat-belts for the twins ? ’ — and Carol , determined to believe I did not exist , joined her , after loading something which I did n't see in through the rear doors . |
| 30 | Bleak dawn light filtered in through the grimy windows . |