Example sentences of "and [adv prt] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 From Cardiff the route snakes up through the valleys south of Caerphilly , over the Ebbw River , through the Ebbw Forest and on via the mining town of Risca to Pontypool .
2 She stamped past me and on down the corridor .
3 As he moved away past the fifteen hundredweight and on down the line , his receding words of assurance were interrupted by warning shouts .
4 Even when , halfway through the morning he broke out with , ‘ Well , there 's no need for you to keep on and on about the table , ’ I did not point out that I had said nothing , that it was he who was ‘ going on and on about it ’ inside himself .
5 She was anxious at the long absence of her visitor , and at the voices , her mother 's voice in particular , sounding on and on through the afternoon .
6 Only when it has been chewed up almost to a liquid can the food pass through the rumen , and on through the gut .
7 Narrowing my eyes against the Atlantic glitter I could see the line of a path that climbed from the bay and on over the headland to the west .
8 An invisible line ran past the corner , left at the second gas-lamp , straight as truth across the grass beside the upright sleepers that lined the railway track , and on towards the enemy territory of the Baltic Fleet .
9 I made my way down into the tube station and on towards the Circle Line .
10 The best way to see the City is from the canals and we have included a ‘ Canal Bus ’ Pass , valid for the whole day around the famous canals ; this pass allows you to get off and on at a selection of stops for you to explore the city .
11 Nicandra took the path leading away from pleasure-garden policies , through heavy laurels and on into a grove of hazels patched with sunlight .
12 The muffled men with the lanterns lighted their way into the house up a vast perron , where once guests had sat in the sun before luncheon , and on into the hall , music belching into its emptiness .
13 The movie loop of this sequence showed a reducing volume of fluid in the stomach when compared with Figure 1A and alos , as in Figure 1B ‘ swirls ’ of activity are apparent , especially in the fundic region , denoting considerable movement of fluid and eddy currents as the contents are propelled towards the pylorus and on into the duodenum .
14 Trucks would come hurtling down the hill , their brakes would fail , and they 'd plough right through the wall and on into the field beyond .
15 He nattered his way from university , through Chicago jazz combos and on into the birth of punk rock as the UK Subs never knew it .
16 All the causes of change are presumed , in Lyell 's system , to persist undiminished into the present , the human period , and on into the future .
17 YOUNG(ISH) MALE ( 23 ) seeks people who are into Japan , Cure , Prince , Deacon Blue , PSB , etc- Help this young individual see the next sunset and on into the future until at least 24 , anyway .
18 Pepper and Jack carried Bunty through the doors into the wings and on into the Property Room , a cavern of furniture and baskets of props , rich with the smell of dust and old beer .
19 I worked on faithfully through the Summer holidays , and on into the Autumn Term .
20 on and on and on and on and on as a border , now she thinks that 's about the washing machine ad you know the Ariston washing ad , on and on .
21 It is n't intended to go anywhere , just fill the time of day … on and on and on with no point or purpose other than to fill the time , like the rocking of a chair . ’
22 They brought me down that day from Edinburgh , bundled me into a transit van with seats but no windows , handcuffed to a big quiet London lad who would n't talk to me at all and did n't even say much to the other two cops in the back of the transit just sat staring ahead and we seemed to drive all night just stopping once at some service station on the Ml , took a while to arrange everything , then they came in with a selection of cans of soft drinks and sandwiches and pasties and pork pies and chocolate and we all sat there munching then they asked me did I need the toilet and I said yes and they opened the door and it was straight over the grass into the gents ' toilets , two cops guarding the door and some men , looked like truckers , standing watching me , waiting for their turn after I 'd had my private visit ; only wanted a pee but I could n't do it even though the big lad was n't actually watching just having him standing there handcuffed to me was enough so they checked the stalls and then took the cuffs off me and I had to leave the door open a crack while I went , then back out and I see the other cop cars Christ a Range Rover and a Senator too I 'm a fucking VIP , then it 's into the van and on with the journey to London where the questioning starts ; they 're concentrating on Sir Rufus 's murder , for now , because they found a card a fucking business card in the woods near the burned cottage ; not mine that would have been too obvious but a card from a guy I know on Jane 's Defence Weekly with some scribbled notes on the back :
23 But enough of history and on with the present — Windows in particular .
24 Ah well , as far as the pyjama-game players are concerned it 's a case of : ‘ On with the motley and on with the motley ! ’
25 At the first change over it 's off with the shoes and on with the safety helmet .
26 ‘ As I 've said , he 's been working off and on on the house as a favour .
27 Again in the case of Trieste , Dell'Aqua describes how patients , painters , doctors , nurses and students built a blue horse — the Marco Cavallo — which led a joyful procession of about 6,000 patients through the town , and on to a celebration of the emptying of the first ward , held at a local primary school .
28 I try to sleep , but can not , and go for a walk along the shore and on to a ridge from where Sør-Fugløya is thrown into relief by the blinding sun .
29 I walked out of the sea and on to a beach , where there was no sign of any people or houses .
30 The image in Figure 5.12 of an inlaid Islamic brass ewer is formed by X-rays passing through the ewer and on to a sheet of film beneath it .
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