Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] the [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It bucked wildly in the night sky , as if deciding whether or not Richard Branson had been lucky enough already , then righted itself and plied on through the night sky , swift and inviolate . |
| 2 | Creggan moved on through the night wind . |
| 3 | Friends and relatives tell me I should have stopped by now , and I know I do n't want to carry on through the toddler years . |
| 4 | She could hear the rising engine-note of the Corporation buses as they pulled away from the stop at the corner , coming from nowhere either of them had ever heard of , going on through the gathering winter dusk to destinations equally obscure . |
| 5 | The raising of money for the Building Fund went on through the war years and many heroic efforts were made . |
| 6 | Everyone keeps going on about the Animal Farm |
| 7 | He started going on about the life insurance . |
| 8 | With everything going on about the Poll tax , it 's extremely easy for us to understand how they felt . |
| 9 | She 's always going on about the way people behave nowadays . |
| 10 | King wants to think on about the time Steve Cooper threw his shirt at him . |
| 11 | Dalglish , preparing for today 's clash at Coventry , said : ‘ There 's no point in going on about the League table while we are still in August . |
| 12 | As she heard me going on about the luncheon party she pulled a face . |
| 13 | It was do-it-your-self delivery for companies and residents in Abingdon this morning , while negotiations go on between the Post Office and striking workers . |
| 14 | They are planning a huge weekend skating festival , to take place early on during the school Summer hols , in the West Country possibly near Bath . |
| 15 | Politics and showbusiness have collided head on during the election campaign with one of the country 's leading Conservatives coming face to face with himself … or at least his Spitting Image . |
| 16 | A badly-planned script , by contrast , necessarily leads to a badly-organized film , and the only reason anyone thinks otherwise is because so much seems to be going on during the shooting stage — money is spent , crowds of extras run in front of the cameras , tempers become heated and everybody becomes very tired — that the person trying to control this chaos appears to the casual observer as the only significant creative force . |
| 17 | Sixty extra Scottish Office staff have been taken on for the agriculture department 's area offices , plus a further 30 at its Edinburgh headquarters . |
| 18 | Yes because in the summer I mean you , some time in the , in this next term would be the ideal thing really because that , if she can stay on for the summer term |
| 19 | A fierce battle is now on for the constituent firms across Europe , the Pacific basin and Canada . |
| 20 | ‘ The fact of the matter is , several of the teachers on the course you missed because of skiving off on holiday , a number of them have asked me if they can stay on for the autumn term . |
| 21 | ‘ The DJ took up the same line when he came on for the broadcast quiz interview , ’ she went on . |
| 22 | I eased down , just holding on for the silver medal , but it was the end of my Commonwealth Games . |
| 23 | He returned it to the Society and it was agreed that the arrow would be retained from then on as the Papingo Trophy , with each winner adding a gold or silver medal bearing his name and the year of his success . |
| 24 | Flak jackets and helmets are hastily pulled on as the team race out to their vehicles . |
| 25 | Noreen was kept on after the try-out week , but she knew that was only on the strength of Fred , the Stage Manager 's sympathetic report , and for the fact that she got on well with everyone in the company , especially Bernie . |
| 26 | ‘ If they want me to stay on after the World Cup I will consider that . |
| 27 | If Charlton does stay on after the World Cup , he 'll find it hard to live up to the high standards he has set . |
| 28 | One of the worst incidents involved the shooting on March 11 of 19 Hindu engineers at a textile factory in Harkishanpura which had defied orders by Sikh militants to close down during the state elections in February [ see p. 38762 ] . |
| 29 | A glacier stone in the churchyard is also mentioned in the Domesday Book and is believed to have come down during the Ice Age . |
| 30 | Deposits laid down during the rifting phase are termed synrift sediments while those laid down on the margin once continental separation has occurred are termed postrift sediments . |