Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] the [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet as they continued on through the shallows so birds wheeled about them in alarm , and creatures shifted in the undergrowth . |
| 2 | She 's been on about the Brownies ever since she was seven , the age at which Granny says girls can join . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Go on about the pig now ! ’ said Maisie . |
| 4 | Well we went every day on about the mail so it was a passenger service that really started off in nineteen fifty five but we bought maybe in nineteen fifty three or fifty four . |
| 5 | He had stayed on during the war only because so many doctors had been away , engaged in service to the country . |
| 6 | Dramatic as imprinting is as a form of learning , it suffered from my point of view from the problem that for a bird to become imprinted requires exposing it to the stimulus , the flashing light or whatever , for a couple of hours ; memory builds up slowly over that time , and so the cellular changes that are going on during the period inevitably intermingle the effects of learning and of visual stimulation with those of memory formation . |
| 7 | ‘ We 're on for the night then ? ’ |
| 8 | Right boys , come on out the way now . |
| 9 | Then he hesitated because he had left it too late and he was concerned that Tom would walk in through the door again at any minute . |
| 10 | Oh we 'll get in through the window then , that 'll be a laugh . |
| 11 | So we 'll get that sorted out and been talking about it I think the best bet is if we can get a few lessons in during the holidays so that when he goes back to school he 'll be more or less up to date . |
| 12 | He would come down for the weekend before and see to the final arrangements , of various things . |
| 13 | Obviously the car must contain some high-ranking officer , probably a general , who would not be at all pleased to find an important branch of M.I.9 in the process of closing itself down for the weekend early on a Saturday morning . |
| 14 | so I wonder if she 's going down the , well she might be down for the service now |
| 15 | Forester 's fear was not so much that the room might not have been available , but that if Hennessy had moved out the hotel might be closed down for the off-season altogether . |
| 16 | lets hope scum go down for the geordies tomorrow ( match of the day in norway ) ! ( hmm — my futba-english justs keeps improving does n't it ; - ] ) |
| 17 | Would you get down off the table please . |
| 18 | You will see that we have followed our own advice and climbed down off the fence here . |
| 19 | The Redcar offshore lifeboat was called to the aid of a fishing vessel which broke down off the coast yesterday . |
| 20 | and then do your other half of knot , reef knot and tuck it in straight away , you get your pin ready , have it on , either on the table or ready like that , now if you 've got too much material ever you just fold that down , there , if that 's too much , which is n't too much with Denise because it 's the right size sling , sometimes you have to improvise and then you fold if forward and back , firmly , take the pin and put it , put your two fingers down between the casualty so that your fingers are apart and there 's a space between your fingers so you can stick the pin in and out again without any danger , if you put the fingers apart like that , if you do stick the pin in yourself and draw blood would you please throw the pin away , as a matter of automatic hygiene , it must n't be used again once it 's been stuck into somebody |
| 21 | The plastic the French company uses for its interior trimmings is not of high quality and looks brittle and cheap , and in most places it sounds not to be screwed as tightly down as the designers originally intended . |
| 22 | The quarters should be in off the track as much as the shoulders would be in shoulderin , keeping plenty of bend behind the saddle . |
| 23 | Yes , it 's in a building attached to the wall of the Convent , so that it 's people can walk in off the street directly into The Porch . |
| 24 | She sat at the table and painstakingly wrote down the sums of money that should have come in for the work already done . |
| 25 | And it 's being pencilled in for the weekend after Wigan are due to defend their world sevens title in Sydney on February 5-7 . |
| 26 | If the child is n't in for the mark prior going to the doctors at ten o'clock they 're absent even if they have a note . |
| 27 | What I find though , erm , becau my , because we got so much stuff coming in for the shop anyway , like the lettuce or the fruit and veg , my parents don , you know , like most people go , yo your mother probably goes , how many , how often does she make a shopping trip ? |
| 28 | If , on reaching the lowest level , the points have not been re-aligned positively , with a set tolerance , the procedure returns to the highest level and successively provides a rotational correction down through the system again . |
| 29 | Roughly speaking , the parts of England most affected by this type of planning form a great belt which sweeps round from Flamborough Head on the Yorkshire coast , down through the Midlands as far as the Dorset coast , and thence north-eastwards along the chalk uplands to the Norfolk coast . |
| 30 | He ran screaming down through the orchard somehow missing collision with the trees , and clutching at the burning camouflage square . |