Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] the [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Oxford-educated daughter of a Norfolk farmer , she began her career as a local authority education officer and inspector of schools , married a headmaster she met on site — he is now an education administrator — moved on through the ranks of Norfolk County Council and chaired Norwich Health Authority . |
| 2 | It continues on through the pages of Scripture to the very last words of the book of Revelation . |
| 3 | Goods would be unloaded at Lindau , taken across the Bodensee to Rorschach , and from there go on through the passes to the south , to Milan or on to Venice for further shipment . |
| 4 | The motorspeeder journeyed on through the plains of Sakkrat . |
| 5 | The book by the man who had repudiated Greek wisdom lived on through the centuries in the Greek version made by his grandson — an émigré to Egypt in 132 B.C. |
| 6 | They worked on through the files for the rest of the morning , a routine they had been through so often that they commented mostly in half-sentences or barely audible grunts . |
| 7 | You continue on through the meadows of Cock marsh — a Site of Special Scientific Interest — to the banks of the Thames . |
| 8 | Follow the track for a short way until a path leads on through the bogs beside the Allt a ‘ Mhuilinn . |
| 9 | So as they continued on through the trees to the fort at Ballingolin , with the blackbirds chittering and the smoke from turf fires coming from the farmhouse inside the castle walls , Gerald Hussey broke the news to his daughter that she would be leaving Ireland . |
| 10 | I bade Jamie and his mother goodnight and walked on through the outskirts of town to the track heading for the island , then down the track in blackness , sometimes using my small torch , towards the bridge and the house . |
| 11 | I mean we 've only got to have a look at the recent events in London went on about the insurances over the bombings over the weekend have n't we ? |
| 12 | This means making decisions very early on about the contents of the whole essay ( e.g. by writing an initial synopsis ) . |
| 13 | We had a phone call erm a year or two ago Mrs did a lot of work on this with petition 's and so on about the costs of pensioner 's for animal treatment , because the P D S A no longer operates in Harlow and the nearest one I think is Edmonton , which makes it impossible . |
| 14 | Listen to people on the Continent going on about the inadequacies of their own health-care systems . |
| 15 | I just went on about the frogs in the flowers , and I never thought about his dreams . |
| 16 | When not banging on about the sins of Vin Garbutt , the shaggy-haired Teesside warbler responsible for Little Innocents and other anti-abortion songs , certain feminist folkies have taken to conducting vigilante patrols through Folk Roots magazine in search of new sources of offence . |
| 17 | When the school closed , they kept the animals on for the toddlers in the local playgroups . |
| 18 | The High Sheriff of Cornwall , Sir John Trelawney , opened an ornamental gate with a silver key and a free tea was laid on for the children of the surrounding parishes . |
| 19 | But it 's strange to think that the day 's not so far away when players like Robert Cray , Bonnie Raitt and Jimmie Vaughan , for so long representatives of the new American blues generation , will themselves be looked on as the elders of the blues . |
| 20 | we look on as the fictions of our lives |
| 21 | Bees fly in through the windows on hot afternoons , zig-zag across the house , and disappear through the open front door . |
| 22 | They walked briskly over to the two cars and Plumpton bent down and peered in through the windows of the Mini . |
| 23 | Slowly struggling up from the depths of deep unconsciousness , Laura flicked open her eyelids , only to shut them firmly again as she winced at the brilliant sunshine flooding in through the windows of the bedroom . |
| 24 | ‘ But I think it is a pointless exercise , ’ said Floy , somewhere towards morning , a thin , cold light filtering in through the windows to where he sat at a great desk , his black hair tumbled , hollows in his cheeks , his face white with fatigue . |
| 25 | But light was spilling in through the seams of the door at the far end of the room ; crimson , glowing light from whatever lay on the other side . |
| 26 | Seventy five percent is taken in through the eyes of which we 're gon na recall about fifty percent , so fifty percent of that seventy five percent yeah ? |
| 27 | The first 30 in through the doors at Doc 's Orders in Yarm Road tonight will receive a copy of the EP . |
| 28 | Currents pass in through the sides of the shell , over the ciliated lophophore where the food is extracted , and then out through the depression in the margin of the valves . |
| 29 | She stood on the deck while the water rushed in through the sides of the great oaken gates , lifting the barge higher and higher until they were level with the water in the next basin . |
| 30 | Blanche Arbuthnot turned in through the gates of her old home . |