Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] the [noun sg] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | But before a settlement is reached , this accounting controversy will rumble on through the winter and early spring . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The debriefing had gone on through the afternoon and early evening in the sound-proofed rooms of their headquarters . |
| 4 | We drove on through the village and turned into a clearing surrounded by a thickly wooded area . |
| 5 | Eileen lingered on through the morning and the brown September afternoon , her life twirling like a hectic-stricken leaf on a thin stem . |
| 6 | Tomorrow she would motor on through the German and the Czechoslovakian borders to her destination in Mariánské Láznë . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | I was on about the necklace and you said it was a bit pricey |
| 13 | I wanted to put that in , rather than going on about the deprivation and the tragedy of divorce and broken families . ’ |
| 14 | Ayrton Senna is always carrying on about the intellectual and spiritual fascination of discovering his own limits in a racing car . |
| 15 | ‘ She kept going on about the fox and coughing . ’ |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Murderous and anguished work — the thinking that goes on between the rehearsal and the deed itself . |
| 19 | And major differences emerged very early on between the English and European movements . |
| 20 | such a vertical representation tells us nothing about the relationships that go on between the centre and field offices . |
| 21 | The gently raked-back pointy-esque headstock is again scarfed on between the nut and the first machine . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | They used to put the cloth on for the winter and take it off during the summer . |
| 24 | Henrietta , tall for her age and spectacularly thin , stood by them in the bikini she had put on for the sunshine and the wand , hovering round the crowd , finally pointed at her . |
| 25 | On the other hand the doctrine clearly applies to contractual terms by which the covenantee , an employer or a purchaser of a business , seeks to forbid the covenantor ( the employee or seller ) from carrying on his trade or restricts the way in which he may carry it on after the purchase and sale of labour or the business , has been completed . |
| 26 | ‘ Against the odds , Simon was able to play on after the interval and was an instrumental part of our fight-back . |
| 27 | He speaks directly to us in the first person and he expresses something very like fear and even self-pity , the distress of the poet , seeing himself as a kind of natural victim , and it may be the distress of the puritan living on after the Restoration and afraid of the wild route , which is Charles the Second 's court , though I think we can be a little sceptical of this and we certainly do n't know with sufficiently accuracy when Paradise Lost was written . |
| 28 | ‘ Had it hit the concrete or had the ground been less soft , it would have carried on after the collision and headed straight into our warehouse , ’ said Mr Bagni . |
| 29 | I walked in through the door and , feeling a bit lost , I asked the first person I saw if he knew whether the Social Secretary was around . |
| 30 | people criticise this style and say it 's all a lie , they take one quick look in through the door and they say that we are all acting madly to conceal some great sadness from ourselves . |