Example sentences of "and [adv prt] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They go on and on about the nails . ’ |
| 2 | The newspaper are going on and on and on about the problems that people have road and road . |
| 3 | Olten is where the line from Zurich to Bern and on to the resorts of Lac Leman and to Geneva crosses that from Basle to Lucerne , the famous , is St Gotthard Pass , the Italianate Ticino , thence to Milan and Italy itself . |
| 4 | Our long-term aim is to shift the burden of taxation away from the things the country needs more of — income , savings and value added — and on to the things we want less of , such as pollution and resource depletion . |
| 5 | Once recruited they were marched to the nearest railway station , entrained on a variety of wagons , and transported to recruiting reception centres and on to the mines . |
| 6 | These would include the arguments of the major poet-critics of the past : Sidney , Jonson , Dryden , Johnson , and on to the Romantics , Victorians , and modernists . |
| 7 | Her next big campaign , shot by Herb Ritts , launched her into the fashion stratosphere and on to the covers of magazines from Vogue to Rolling Stone . |
| 8 | Gathering my things , I moved out of the plane and on to the stairs . |
| 9 | That brought him within a mile or two of Stoke St Gregory , down the steep incline and on to the Levels , where a family of Titfords had once made their home as long ago as the end of the 16th century . |
| 10 | We can take our students beyond that stage of technical feedback and on to the levels of self-enlightenment and self-emancipation , through encouraging ever-wider and higher levels of self-criticism . |
| 11 | Concerned at the way neither she nor her friends wore ‘ Laura Ashley ’ clothes ( too many frills , too much lace , all up to the neck and down to the ankles , they said ) Laura asked them to come up with suggestions for the sort of outfits they would like to wear . |
| 12 | It keeps the whole roof in position and transmits its weight , and the considerable windloadings it is subjected to , through the walls and down to the foundations . |
| 13 | They come in here for one orange juice and they 're up and down to the loos five times in one night with different blokes . ’ |
| 14 | Do 20 walking jogs on the spot , raising your arms up and down at the sides . |
| 15 | She did n't scream ; she moaned and cried with pain , pulling at the bedclothes , jerking her swollen body up and down with the contractions . |
| 16 | They looked out of the window and down on the merrymakers . |
| 17 | She looked out through the big picture window and across the manicured lawn and down towards the ponds and away towards the line of birches at the bottom of the garden . |
| 18 | It must be continuous around the walls , so on a sloping site it will step up and down along the joints in the brickwork . |
| 19 | They 'd be going up and down between the aisles as well . |
| 20 | If you weave half way across a row and stop and take off the sinker plate , you 'll see the weaving yarn weaving up and down over the needles . |
| 21 | Of course , Therese would look ridiculous in the part — nothing they could do about that , a boy 's costume was a boy 's costume — but the voice , that electrifying voice rippling up and down through the registers without effort . |
| 22 | Nails spun the mini through the traffic , heading out of town , flicking up and down through the gears as if he did it every day . |
| 23 | ‘ For I am weary ’ , he wrote , ‘ with rowing up and down in the seas of questions , which the interests of Christendom have commenced , and in many propositions of which I am not certain that I am not deceived . ’ |
| 24 | " Later that evening , as El-ahrairah was urging his rabbits to growl more fiercely and run up and down in the marshes of Kelfazin , Prince Rainbow came over the river . |
| 25 | And down in the highlands of the south there is the extremely rare mountain zebra , with bold but more vertically arranged flank stripes . |
| 26 | It was a well-attended service , families coming both from the village and down from the hills . |
| 27 | Alerted by a grapevine of unparalleled efficiency to the presence of honkies with money , hitherto undiscovered talents began swarming in from the ghettos and down from the hills , bearing tape-recordings , even guitars , for impromptu auditions . |
| 28 | By using salvaged slates , it was possible to revise the roof of the garage to a ‘ cat-slide ’ form projecting out and down from the eaves of the main rear roof-slope at a slightly shallower pitch than this surface ( Plate 10 ) . |
| 29 | The Mason waded up and down among the crowds allowing the womenfolk to feel his arm and kiss his dirty hand as though it were a holy relic . |
| 30 | For there really is something a little odd surrealist even in the idea of a folding-leaf Dining ( Bird ) Table , where the flaps are made to beat up and down like the wings of a bird . |