Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] the [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | so , and then he was going on about the work he 's doing on the |
| 2 | Not the same as those you ranted on about the day we first met ? " |
| 3 | Mr Evans 's voice boomed on about the things he had done when he was a boy — mostly earning money in his spare time to help his poor mother — but though Auntie Lou seemed to be listening , she was n't listening to him . |
| 4 | She was going on about the grass they 've left on the |
| 5 | It 's okay for Australians to bang on about the risks they get a summer . |
| 6 | Buy two £175 fish and go on about the bargain you 've got ? |
| 7 | Right , what we 're now going to do is incorporate that dummy variable as the regressor in our model as an explanatory variable , so what 's going to happen is that that dummy variable is turned off , alright in the first part of the sample right up until the war that dummy variable 's going to be off , right so it has a value of zero , right , then in nineteen forty through to nineteen forty five it 's switched on and what it 's going to do is to pick up any differential effects , right , in the intercept between wartime and peacetime right , we 'll talk a little bit more , more about that in a second , we 're going to add it in as a regressor , right , because it only comes on during the wartime it will pick up any shift in the intercept , right , that occurs due to the war if there is one , of course there may not be but it 's quite likely that there , there may well be , so if you type Q to come out of the data processing environment , go back to the action menu and test estimate forecast okay at the dialog box just add D one to your list of explanatory variables , alright then press the end key , right , yeah we 're gon na use the full sample right , we gon na use O L S , right you have now estimated the model with this dummy variable now just to see what 's happened to those coefficients the er incoming elasticity was at nought point six is now doubled right to one point one four more importantly , right , its T ratio has jumped from one point eight five right to six point eight , as a result , we now say that the incoming elasticity , the income coefficients , right , the significant zero , it 's important to explain the textiles as such the er , we are now getting a very different estimate for our |
| 8 | and , well no it 's not sociable but because you come out and it , it gets you away from here because you 've got so many things on during the day you want some time to yourself and because you , we 've found us a place that we wo n't get busted and we know we wo n't we go in and have it but I can guarantee that if we were , like walking into this room , if it was full of smoke it would put me off straight away . |
| 9 | Clearly Helen has looked for ‘ explanations ’ to help her deal with such a painful experience , and the one she seems to have come up with is that she was picked on for the way she looks . |
| 10 | I feel I could play , but if I broke down during the game I would be letting down the team and myself . |
| 11 | You can breathe it in through the lungs you can swallow it through the mouth , you can inject it through the skin and you can also absorb it through the skin . |
| 12 | A Polynesian folktale tells of Rata , who travelled across the ocean and ingeniously outwitted a hungry whale by jamming open its jaws with a broken oar ; venturing in through the mouth he came face to face with his parents who had been gulped down before him . |
| 13 | ( These are only my personal feelings and I would n't want to put anybody else down for the way they dress . ) |
| 14 | More than two negative reasons for accepting a job can take a heavy toll on your resources of enthusiasm , particularly if you had the added disappointment of being turned down for the post you 'd really hoped for at the time . |
| 15 | Down off the holder it 's on the sink ready with the the toothpaste on it . |
| 16 | ‘ A Gnat honours his promise , ’ I told him , and I took his kite down off the racks I was amazed how light it was It was beautiful It was big , silicon black , with scarlet lines , and when I took it outside , the sun flashed rainbows off the shoulder hooks . |
| 17 | Whether it was being referred to that week as The Tea Room , The Oasis or The Hole ( I liked that one too ) , it was always basically night inside , A Good Night Out ; not black as jeweller 's velvet exactly , except on a good night , but always when you stepped in off the street it was truly night inside , a night dark enough to dream in and on which to meet strangers , whatever the variations on where and when this particular night had fallen . |
| 18 | An animal capable of symbolization can carry away from a situation an inner trace that stands in for the response it may make when it next encounters the situation . |
| 19 | Before turning in for the night I telephoned Fred Workman to say I would be back at my desk by mid-morning and would be covering the visit of Mr Gladstone Murray to our city , his meetings and his broadcast speech , for the next day 's evening edition . |
| 20 | ‘ That 's why I put in for the R.F.C. We 're literally the only sportsmen left . ’ |
| 21 | Although tankers did not come in for the attention they received in the 1980s , on 25 January Platt 's carried an account of an attack on an Iraqi tanker by US aircraft . |
| 22 | The chances are , however , that whichever way the cookie is crumbled on April 9 we are in for the shake-up we were denied with the departure of Mrs Thatcher . |
| 23 | Down through the sea she splashed to him . |
| 24 | We were away for almost three weeks and in between the cricket we also played five hockey fixtures and one tournament . |
| 25 | During Nigel 's second period in hospital , in between the times I spent there , I set about arranging his funeral . |
| 26 | Lord Peyton has the right to stick to his guns and he 's disinclined to give in after the majority he won last time . |
| 27 | Looking down towards the Orne I could see a thick mist over the water and patches of mist hanging over the cornfields . |
| 28 | Rounding the bend from the top path down towards the stable she was brandishing a stick , beating the cows ' dripping rumps and cursing them aloud for refusing to hurry . |
| 29 | Down below the bunker I think . |
| 30 | But once you get down below the horizon you get to look round this area here where there 's some rope tangled round , some kind of padding , it does tend to get a little bit lost amongst all the pebbles . |