Example sentences of "[adv prt] [to-vb] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gilgamesh went on to search for the secret of immortality and according to the legend he almost succeeded . |
| 2 | But Miss Banks-Smith went on to worry about the effects of such overwhelming attention : ‘ You wonder with something like guilt whether television was good for her . |
| 3 | The report went on to comment on the absence of objective criteria for setting health priorities and to emphasise the need for health service research to be multidisciplinary . |
| 4 | Well , I remember Strawberry Alarm Clock , a bunch of psychedelic nutters from Santa Barbara , who had a massive hit with ‘ Incense and Peppermint ’ in 1967 and then went on to appear in the Psych-Out movie . |
| 5 | McIlvanney went on to work on the Scotsman as a news reporter and feature writer , though with his passion for football and boxing , the attraction towards sports was inevitable . |
| 6 | She went on to work for the Friends ' Committee in France , Austria , Poland , and Greece . |
| 7 | Next month he travels to Nuremburg to do parish work before going on to work in the archives in the Papal capital . |
| 8 | Peter Morgan had no complaints , however , and went on to work in the hotels and restaurants of the Lyons empire . |
| 9 | Very often pupils will benefit from the opportunity to see and handle , and discuss a few selected artefacts at close hand , before going on to work in the display galleries . |
| 10 | Erm you had a statement of Barbara 's , if it was in there , it was planned so that you crew can work harder erm although you filled in the bonus question well , the there was a tend dangerous tendency for you be sucked in to go into the bonus and I think you did well to say yeah well we 'd better walk along to that so you held out which was nice because if I had if you had n't tackled that you might have been shown the door once you 'd gone through that . |
| 11 | I had a very good man in to see to the heating and lighting , and the whole conversion was done professionally . |
| 12 | Diana and Charles stooped down to search through the clothes . |
| 13 | When the gunmen climbed in to sit on the benches at the side they had to put their booted feet on the prisoners . |
| 14 | Very few erm Continental countries would consider entrusting the administration of justice erm to erm people who took an afternoon or a day off work every week or so and went in to sit on the Bench . |
| 15 | She cut through the heady memories and concentrated her mind on what Steve was saying while she watched a superb glossy white yacht coming in to berth at the jetty not fifty metres from the window of the restaurant . |
| 16 | There used to be a Circuit bicycle , kept in Thomas Street , for the use of visiting Edgehill students down to preach in the country churches . |
| 17 | Staring at him worriedly , she slowly sank down to sit on the edge of the bed . |
| 18 | They also pointed out that there was no room service and Maggie sank back down to sit on the bed and nurse her aching face . |
| 19 | John feels better , so he comes down to sit at the kitchen table and chat . |
| 20 | It might be a way of tempting him down to sit in the bar , sometimes . ’ |
| 21 | The librarian , fearful of fire , gently shooed Corbett out so the clerk went down to stroll in the monastery 's small herb garden while he rigorously analysed all he had learnt in his journey to Kinghorn . |
| 22 | She put a red plastic bowl on the refrigerator floor and sat down to wait for the ice to melt . |
| 23 | I settled down to wait in the passageway between the garage and the house where I was a little protected from the inclemency of the weather and whence I was eventually plucked by the constabulary . |
| 24 | ‘ You 're down to go to the dentist Friday , ’ Paul says . |
| 25 | Go right and push the crate onto the button , go up on the lift and to the left , push the crate off the edge of the platform , go up on the lift and right , climb up six platforms and push the crate left , fall left and duck down to go along the conveyor belt , jump onto the ledges on the wall and go up , go right , up , left , up , push the crate right , fall down , push the crate right into the button , go right and duck down to go along the conveyor belt , drop down to the stationary lift , go left then up , push the crate down , right , right , left , right and right onto the button . |
| 26 | Go right and push the crate onto the button , go up on the lift and to the left , push the crate off the edge of the platform , go up on the lift and right , climb up six platforms and push the crate left , fall left and duck down to go along the conveyor belt , jump onto the ledges on the wall and go up , go right , up , left , up , push the crate right , fall down , push the crate right into the button , go right and duck down to go along the conveyor belt , drop down to the stationary lift , go left then up , push the crate down , right , right , left , right and right onto the button . |
| 27 | At the top of the shaft , push the crate right onto the switch , go right and duck down to go along the conveyor belt , push the next crate right onto the button , then go along the next conveyor belt . |
| 28 | The skep , with some comb still hanging to feed the bees through the cold times , was lifted onto a cloth , the spare bees scooped back into it , and it was wrapped to be carried back down to overwinter in the bee field . |
| 29 | ‘ Let me invite you to dinner in an hour , ’ said George , ‘ and ’ — this was addressed to Mrs Robinson , who had crept in to stand in the doorway and hear the end of the story , and now stepped forward to play a part — ‘ please , let us borrow your daughter for the evening so that we four can be a company . |
| 30 | Soon she would get down to work on the garden ; it would be something to do at the weekends . |