Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I remember Morris willing me on through a mist of deep deep unconsciousness . |
| 2 | Carry on through a strip of woodland and over a second stile . |
| 3 | Not that he was succeeding ; Sergeant Crane was sitting , legs crossed , only just not fidgeting , as Bruce Davidson wore on through a lot of unnecessary detail . |
| 4 | On the radio whenever Leeds have possession they seem to waffle on about a load of bollocks . |
| 5 | Chorlton , mhm , he examined me , erm , he , he said now they were on about a slide on my heart . |
| 6 | Then I let her warble on for a while about the trials of high office , and feign interest in titbits of gossip from the upper echelons . |
| 7 | This was going on for a couple of days , so I was getting worried and I took him to the prison doctor and he says , ‘ It might be with you breastfeeding , try him on the bottle . ’ |
| 8 | You know they were only being taken on for a couple of months and they , they wanted to form a trade union but quite a lot of the tra er father Christmases would n't join a trade union . |
| 9 | As soon as I was clear of the entrance to the voe , I let the boat steer herself while I put the kettle on for a cuppa after a modest breakfast of bread and cheese . |
| 10 | The management of the large Alhambra Theatre agreed to put this on for a week as a curtain-raiser to a horror film starring Boris Karloff . |
| 11 | She put the kettle on for a cup of coffee . |
| 12 | Half way through Edward gave up , scraped the rest into Tam 's food bowl and put the kettle on for a cup of tea ; behind him , Tam slurped as though rescued from the brink of starvation . |
| 13 | Mrs. Feather says : " I 'll put the kettle on for a cup of tea . |
| 14 | ‘ I 've got the kettle on for a cup of tea . ’ |
| 15 | made with all milk you see , and I put this on the other day , it was Monday , and I put it on for a cup of coffee , well Jim was out the front with Tom cos Tom fixed the front door |
| 16 | ‘ You 're to ride Shine On for a spot of work . ’ |
| 17 | This output is in turn fed to a monostable made up from NAND gates IC4c , IC4d which is turned on for a period of a few milliseconds determined by the values of resistor R17 and capacitor C4 . |
| 18 | Caducius had been found by Alexander McKenn and Maurice Harknett in the 1960s and dived on for a period of time before being forgotten . |
| 19 | Using a pre-set timer , the lights can be set to stay on for a period from 25 seconds to 12 minutes . |
| 20 | It was thanks to them that he learned that the hunt was on for a leak on the Washington embassy wartime staff which could only have been Maclean . |
| 21 | The Governor Eyre controversy dragged on for a number of years , creating deep divisions within respectable society . |
| 22 | It is well known that local reversals of movement occur and may possibly go on for a number of years . |
| 23 | He went hunting in Grasmere , and often stayed on for a party in the evening after a hunt . |
| 24 | Win a weekend away The search is on for a photo of Britain 's best windowbox , basket or tub . |
| 25 | ‘ We 've been using Dream On as a kind of practical research , testing the possibilities . |
| 26 | It was laid on as a surprise by Nick 's colleagues at Norfolk county council . |
| 27 | Provision of the means to wage an atrocious war had been agreed on as a sign of good faith . |
| 28 | Building extends the grammar , by correlation ; but it can also be looked on as a way of extending the vocabulary of the learner . |
| 29 | He took small parts in ballets by Ashton ( a courtier at the ball in the premiere of Cinderella , one of the revellers in the cave scene of Apparitions ) and de Valois ( Checkmate , Don Quixote and Job ) , walked on as a pall-bearer in Helpmann 's Hamlet , and appeared in the classics , where his most prominent parts were a mazurka dancer in Swan Lake and a marquess in the hunting scene of The Sleeping Beauty . |
| 30 | Charles had been wounded in the fighting but had recovered and signed on as a regular at the end of the war . |