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

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1 They drove on through a tunnel and then the landscape became more arid .
2 But before a settlement is reached , this accounting controversy will rumble on through the winter and early spring .
3 His objective had to be to drive on through the tumult and horror as best they could , not to get involved with individuals or groups , not to be sidetracked , so as to reach that further side , there to turn and repeat the dire process , difficult as this must be .
4 The debriefing had gone on through the afternoon and early evening in the sound-proofed rooms of their headquarters .
5 We drove on through the village and turned into a clearing surrounded by a thickly wooded area .
6 Eileen lingered on through the morning and the brown September afternoon , her life twirling like a hectic-stricken leaf on a thin stem .
7 Tomorrow she would motor on through the German and the Czechoslovakian borders to her destination in Mariánské Láznë .
8 The second was an untidy and protracted business , stretching on through the spring and summer and coinciding with the refusal of The Possessed to be contained within the limits of a ‘ tendentious ’ sideshow .
9 They 've been revolting for years under the surface and then some thing happens that make it possible course the continued revolutions have gone on through the world and because they 've seen the success of a revolution in Russia although we did n't know the full facts of it in the West , it was , it did establish a huge area in the wake of a revolution .
10 The next thing he recalled after that was waking up in hospital and this man with bandaged fingers in the next bed rambling on about a duffle-coat and how he 'd been bitten by a wolf .
11 they were , they were doing a play or something and it , it mentioned about er , erm , what did it mention ? , it was a bit rude any way this play and it oh it was on about an erection or something and Geoffrey said his trousers his new trousers were sticking out a bit peculiar
12 ‘ Well , when we were going on about the Universe and all the galaxies and the Big Bang , we talked about gravity forces — between the galaxies — trying to pull them together .
13 So , we bang on about the play and the staging and the big themes , and , if there 's any space left , then , as the chairman of Critics ' Forum wearily intones , ‘ I suppose we ought to say something about the performances . ’
14 Then the ginger kitten I hid in the garden shed and mother found it and there was a monumental scene and Helen called her a beast ; funny , I can hear it now , mother going on about the kitten and Helen suddenly exploding and mother 's face .
15 I was on about the necklace and you said it was a bit pricey
16 I wanted to put that in , rather than going on about the deprivation and the tragedy of divorce and broken families . ’
17 Ayrton Senna is always carrying on about the intellectual and spiritual fascination of discovering his own limits in a racing car .
18 ‘ She kept going on about the fox and coughing . ’
19 ‘ I do n't want to go on about the amount or work — everybody works hard .
20 I was on two bags a day when I went to see me GP and I was on between a quarter and half a gram when I got to the hospital .
21 Of the other large groups of courses , PGCE Primary students on between a quarter and a third of the courses received little on The Language of Specialist Subjects , Standard Language , Accent and Dialect , Bilingualism and Multilingualism , and Classroom Research .
22 That part of the package has to be right , but it 's impossible to separate it from the consultation that goes on between the customer and the supplier before the sale is clinched .
23 There was an open war going on between the child and the nun , and the class was aware of it and daily seemed to await events .
24 Murderous and anguished work — the thinking that goes on between the rehearsal and the deed itself .
25 And major differences emerged very early on between the English and European movements .
26 such a vertical representation tells us nothing about the relationships that go on between the centre and field offices .
27 The gently raked-back pointy-esque headstock is again scarfed on between the nut and the first machine .
28 Some of the children were screaming as they watched the tussle going on between the nun and the girl whom they secretly admired and envied because she was n't afraid of the dreaded Sister Mary .
29 This is quite often the cause of the ‘ 1701 — hard disk error ’ reported during Power On Self Test when the drive is cold which miraculously seems to cure itself when the system has been on for a while and the drive has warmed up ’ .
30 ‘ An officer signalled for her to stop but she carried on for a mile and mounted the kerb on one occasion , ’ Tony Malyon , prosecuting , told Pontypool magistrates .
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