Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv prt] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 If Sir Geoffrey were to ask you to carry on for a bit longer , would you be willing to do so ? "
2 Net trading surpluses , from which funds were allocated , evaporated ; for most of 1921 and 1922 the LCS Political Committee was forced to carry on without a grant .
3 Mellor told Mr Major he felt unable to carry on in a phone call early yesterday morning .
4 I 'd like you to go on to a university and do music , but I think you 'll do that anyway , and I 'd like you to stop playing other instruments .
5 ‘ Mouse ’ was to go on to a succession of schools — at all of which he was unhappy — and to Oxford , where he was run over by a train under circumstances which strongly suggested suicide .
6 At Holy Trinity , Brompton , all four priests are Old Etonians , one of the churchwardens is a former private secretary of Margaret Thatcher 's , and it is not unknown for members of the congregation to go on to a wedding reception in St James 's Palace .
7 My dear Theo , I wrote to you already early this morning , then I went away to go on with a picture of a garden in the sunshine .
8 And what started as a language-game had to go on as a lie , or a myth .
9 This silly and childlike regressive behaviour can not be allowed to go on in a relationship in which a couple care for one another .
10 If knowing how to go on in a discipline is largely a matter of rule-following , it remains the case that the rules are as much socially imposed by the disciplinary tribe as they are by epistemic considerations ( Becher 1989 ) .
11 That joint 's got to go on by a quarter to , or goodness knows what time dinner will be ready . ’
12 Dosh — I was pretty sure it was Dosh — and I danced some and she finished off the Kümmel , which meant we then had to sit down for a while near the window , where some scatter cushions had been laid .
13 so we had to sit down for a while .
14 Born in Cuba to a German-Jewish father and a black mother — ‘ I was sort of kosher , but swinging ’ — he cut sugar-cane in his youth before joining his father , a ship 's steward , on his travels , only to be accidentally left behind on Crete at 12 : ‘ I had to sit down for a minute — almost cried . ’
15 You have to sit down for a minute
16 I needed to sit down for a minute .
17 Because when you do run across the road , you get to the other side , and you 're thinking , good gracious , that was a close shave , I 'll have to sit down for a minute , I think I 'll have a cup of coffee or something .
18 It may also be useful in case the patient becomes unexpectedly tired , and needs to sit down for a moment .
19 ‘ I am not about to sit down to a meal with you , ’ she said bitingly , ‘ Nor am I — ’
20 She was tirelessly willing to discuss things in the manner of the country ; to sit down with a landlord , for example , and answer such questions as whether England was smaller than London , and which of the two belonged to France , and how much larger the Turkish navy was than those of England , France and Russia put together .
21 Well done , excellent , erm , as you can see , in some ways quite a complex er , issue , and it 's one of those things really , I think to fully understand this , you got to sit down with a pencil and paper and work it through yourself .
22 Or at least got hold of the basic as I have said , the best way to do this , is to sit down with a piece of pencil and paper and work it out yourself .
23 He took my passport off me and told me to sit down on a bench sat against the wall ; I picked up a magazine and read it while he checked my details .
24 She made for the door , but decided instead to sit down on a chair .
25 You 're welcome , ’ then went to the sink in the far corner of the kitchen to wash his hands , came back to the fireside to sit down in a chair to the right of the oven , and watched his wife putting out the meal .
26 To sit down in a cafe you had to buy a cup of tea .
27 Crewe finished the first half the stronger and were possibly unlucky not to go in with a lead , the Leeds defense was looking fragile ( Fairclough was back at central def. — agghhhh ) , the midfield ( esp .
28 Firemen were called to the river Taff in Llandaff to rescue Eric , a 10-stone Irish Wolfhound who had got into deep water after deciding to go in for a swim .
29 You need the permission of the owner to go in for a title search so you 'd have to know the owner first .
30 I 'd like to go in for a bit , but there 's loads of people in there and I ai n't got no washing to do .
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