Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was all very well going on about pure logic and how the universe was ruled by logic and the harmony of numbers , but the plain fact of the matter was that the disc was manifestly traversing space on the back of a giant turtle and the gods had a habit of going round to atheists ' houses and smashing their windows . |
| 2 | What is it going on about liquid gold and gold ? |
| 3 | the local communities have been ignored in these issues and these discussions that are going on between British Coal and the County Council . |
| 4 | Leek out , had this heart trouble , and he 'd been in the Signals about oh ten year , he , he was on for twelve engagement and he nearly completed it when he had this heart trouble . |
| 5 | The traveller who rides on a local bus can learn a lot : in the mountains of Greece everyone clings on for dear life and makes the sign of the cross at every bend in the road ; in the Thar Desert , Rajasthan , a sense of humour is essential , especially when the giggling driver moves the sheltering bus to reveal squatting passengers answering the call of nature , and in South America it helps if you do n't mind sitting next to a chicken or sharing the floor with a goat . |
| 6 | The industry is still stuffed with excess capacity , mostly taken on for Big Bang and the freak year of boom that followed ( until the 1987 crash ) . |
| 7 | Contact : Motif Editions on for everyday range and Publications Department , City Art Gallery on for Eric Gill cards |
| 8 | However months later he was able to start talking about his wife and the fact that they had not been getting on for some time and had begun divorce proceedings . |
| 9 | This pantomime went on for some time and , inevitably , the emotional strain brought on a resurgence of his symptoms . |
| 10 | Ernie , who was employed by him , would go up on a Sun day to feed his stock and unbeknown to Dick Gooding would bring the old mule back with him , hitch him to the hand cart and pull it over to Birling Bank , this went on for some time and poor old Dick knew nothing of these goings on . |
| 11 | And this had gone on for some time and he was down on the shore anyway one night and looking out across the the sea and thinking long for Eday and he met this man . |
| 12 | She carried on for another year and then died suddenly from a heart attack . |
| 13 | The group carried on for another album and a few more singles but the charts were changing , and their time was up . |
| 14 | She would sit down for one minute and then she would go and warm herself beside Tom . |
| 15 | In ‘ Comfort ’ , gear ratios are maintained as high as possible , while in ‘ Special Range ’ it is quicker to kick down for rapid acceleration and remains in a lower ratio until higher engine speeds . |
| 16 | On July 13 Itzhak Rabin , chair of the Israel Labour Party since February , was sworn in as Prime Minister and announced the composition of his Cabinet . |
| 17 | In March Suharto was sworn in as acting President and in December 1967 Sukarno was placed under house arrest in Bogor . |
| 18 | About half Britain 's sulphur rains down as wet deposition and half is dry fallout . |
| 19 | The gaol was at its busiest during the 1840s , when labourers on the Buckingham railway line were continually being hauled in for petty crime and drunkeness ; a spell in one of the cells was guaranteed to sober them up . |
| 20 | But the 28-year-old Heinzer hung in for second place and another Austrian veteran , Peter Wirnsberger , for third . |
| 21 | Erm , and it 's been quickly Christianized with just two little lectures at the beginning of two chapters to Christianize so it was popped in for new testament and it 's the nearest we can get to teaching . |
| 22 | The List came in for copious criticism and there were a number of insinuations that the List — which had first appeared on a piece of lavender-coloured notepaper — was largely the work of Lady Falkender . |
| 23 | So anyway I put in for this job and and there were people who who ought to have got it before me , er for instance er there was a councillor at er at , Tom , did you know Tom ? |
| 24 | Practice was largely limited to horses by the peculiar constitution of the College , whereby subscribers of the richer sort sent their animals in for free treatment and received drugs at half-price . |
| 25 | Drop in for some caffeine and culture ! |
| 26 | this bloke and his bird , right , and then ahead would n't like it clears up a bit in , in the Blackwall tunnel but it 's still like sort of five yards in between each car and he 's just like moving from lane to lane without signalling or anything |
| 27 | And of course you can get the whole admixture in between total withdrawal and total aggression . |
| 28 | I think there 's , there 's quite a difference , erm , in between physical dependency and psychological dependency |
| 29 | The early running was made by the 100–1 outsider City Scandal , who after two furlongs conceded the lead to Shikampur , with Pinza in about sixth place and Aureole unable to take up a handy position . |
| 30 | But it does illustrate the trend towards the rehabilitation of offenders which the Mexican authorities seem to be making , and the increasing efforts which are being put in towards improving accommodation and educational facilities . |