Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] [art] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The path , waymarked and cleared , led on through a boulder field .
2 Gradually her technique improved , and Water Gypsy glided on through a country solitude of farms and fields .
3 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 .
4 Creggan moved on through the night wind .
5 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 .
6 Away from the prying eyes of the world , the newlyweds sailed the Aegean and Ionian Seas and on through the Suez Canal .
7 Jones now sailed on through the North Sea , towards England , his progress marked by a trail of prizes which were sent back to France , his own ships , as he later wrote to Louis XVI , being ‘ weakened and embarrassed with prisoners ’ , whom he still hoped to exchange for Americans .
8 Yes , and then that approach was taken on through the Greater York study , and in the greenbelt local plan , and the Greater York study identified a number of sites .
9 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 .
10 The raising of money for the Building Fund went on through the war years and many heroic efforts were made .
11 Mrs Willmot was now going on about a film evening in October : ‘ I thought you could lay on some nature things — I know that 's your forte . ’
12 ‘ In fact I 've heard Mauleverer going on about a tripe restaurant in Paris . ’
13 Everyone keeps going on about the Animal Farm
14 Mr Carter droned on about the United States not being strong any more and being too afraid of the Russian bear and being out-traded and so on .
15 He started going on about the life insurance .
16 With everything going on about the Poll tax , it 's extremely easy for us to understand how they felt .
17 oh well whatever , no it was n't , they were on about the B B C
18 We were talking earlier on about the N H S and the foundation of the N H S.
19 I wo n't go on about the England game — you know what happened — except to say it was crap being there .
20 She 's always going on about the way people behave nowadays .
21 King wants to think on about the time Steve Cooper threw his shirt at him .
22 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 .
23 As she heard me going on about the luncheon party she pulled a face .
24 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 .
25 But you can take on off the T V there .
26 The real loss of life occurred on the evening of 4 December when a group of insurgents , accompanied by a crowd who had apparently come along to watch events , was fired on during a panic reaction on the part of the soldiers .
27 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 .
28 For example , the TV drama ‘ Thin Air ’ in 1988 brought out some of the unpleasantness about the ‘ wheeler-dealing ’ that has been going on during the Docklands boom years .
29 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 .
30 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 .
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