Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The exhibition continues into twentieth-century painting with works of Futurism , the Cubist-Futurist Russians , American Cubism , Precisionism represented by Charles Demuth and Charles Sheeler and thence on through the various transformations that the art of this century has seen . |
| 2 | We wandered past the Delhi Gate and on through the crumbling streets of Old Delhi ; as we went , Pakeezah stared sadly around her . |
| 3 | Patronage did not die out with industrialization ; it lived on through the honorific offices of county clubs and national bodies . |
| 4 | The picture speaks for itself , on through the 29 generations . |
| 5 | He urged them on through the mounting waves until they too reached the Rebecca , and he was able to ram one hole , fill it with pitch , then another , and another , round the hull beneath the overhang of the bows , in a rain of missiles , with fire sizzling around him , and his fellow fighters hanging on , hoping for the moment when the timbers would be ablaze . |
| 6 | ‘ Anyway , ’ said Lydia , sitting up , ‘ it was Beuno who went on about the golden emerods . ’ |
| 7 | Most letters asked for autographs or photographs , some complained of or praised a person interviewed or view expressed , and there was always a sprinkling of old dears short of correspondents who rambled on about the old days . |
| 8 | The first lecture I gave I was going on about the different approaches to psychology . |
| 9 | ‘ I was going on about the relative merits of casseroling and roasting . |
| 10 | I 'm just a little bit concerned that if we do delay it while discussions are going on about the unitary authorities and such like , we 'll put restrictions on Mr running it as a commercial enterprise , and I think we have got to make sure that any long term deferral on this , we do n't inhibit him rationalising selling off the odd cottage and this sort of thing , and the farmhouse as we go along , and amalgamating ones because I think it 's , he 's got to be able to run it as a commercial proposition during the course of deliberations . |
| 11 | She 's already provided the couple with a tape of tribal fertility dances to ‘ release endorphins in the pelvic region ’ and before long she 's going on about the healing properties of dolphins . |
| 12 | One of the first things Reagan did upon becoming president was to name Iran as an enemy of America and to ensure that no trade of any kind went on between the two countries , either directly or indirectly , imposing draconian penalties for anyone caught doing so . |
| 13 | But the , you see if you look in the , I have information off the Birmingham secretary , er Secretary 's secretary , she was involved , she even was imprisoned in Switzerland erm when the peace movement was on between the two wars , and that was when they were , I believe it was a German woman that er that was on , you know in the committee , but I 'll have to refer to the Caring and Sharing book . |
| 14 | The global data structure , the Chart , would provide an easily accessible record of what exactly was going on between the different components . |
| 15 | I waved to Didier and walked on between the pollarded limes . |
| 16 | Two of those references are to research by Professor Harry Smith and his colleagues in Birmingham — work which has certainly moved on during the intervening decades . |
| 17 | It 's all to do with GCSE coursework and see how we 're getting on during the two weeks and we get experience for us when we leave school and go to work . |
| 18 | we replied that our only object was to secure a Government on such lines and with such a prospect of stability that it might reasonably be expected to be capable of carrying on the war ; that in our opinion his Government , weakened by the resignations of Lloyd George and Bonar Law and by all that had gone on during the past weeks , offered no such prospect and we answered the question therefore with a perfectly definite negative . |
| 19 | We want to give the children positive memories which they can draw on during the difficult times at home to build a better country . |
| 20 | Asking the candidate to wait on for a few minutes . |
| 21 | Cream conditioners are massaged onto hair , left on for a few minutes , then rinsed off . |
| 22 | He drove on for a few minutes , the headlights cleaving a way through the darkness . |
| 23 | The talking went on for a few moments then the sudden , all too familiar , sound of a mortar bomb leaving the barrel . |
| 24 | She would twitter on for a few sentences to get everyone else to give their opinions , then make a decision . |
| 25 | He walked on for a few yards , stooped and picked something up . |
| 26 | It finally erupted when Mozart asked for permission to stay on for a few days in Vienna to collect some outstanding fees . |
| 27 | The Captain and his wife proved so hospitable that Ricky stayed on for a few days after Minton left to stay with Paul ( ‘ Odo ’ ) Cross and Angus Wilson at their home Rio Chico at Ocho Rios . |
| 28 | Yes , I think I shall stay on for a few days here . ’ |
| 29 | Maybe I should have hung on for a few days in there getting to grips with Alf Bundy 's ailments . |
| 30 | The travellers say they wo n't be moving on for a few days and tonight , the festival still appears to be in full swing.Local people are angry after finding drug-taking equipment dumped in gardens , and sheep savaged to death at a local farm . |