Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] the [noun sg] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Caspar took no notice of him and carried on through the wood towards the field . |
| 2 | She saw them in the sky , just a small group of them , but they brought death , she knew that , as they flew steadily on through the calm of the summer morning . |
| 3 | They were stopped at a sentry post to have passes checked and moved on through the wool of the fog , traffic sounds muted , an anguished cry from the Thames as a ship sounded its foghorn on the way down to the sea . |
| 4 | When there were no sounds of activity she heaved a great sigh of relief and carried on through the living-room towards the front door . |
| 5 | Always going on about the Fate of the Graduate Wife and how she 's fed up being a cabbage — well as far as I 'm concerned I can not see the call for langwidge . |
| 6 | she says , I 'm on about the lady with the dark hair |
| 7 | They bubbled with enthusiasm , all talking at the same time while raving on about the beauty of the bush walk . |
| 8 | ‘ She was on about the end o' the world was nigh . |
| 9 | You do n't know what goes on off the course with the other guys ; their mental work and physical training . |
| 10 | Inevitably , er that has not been entirely acceded to , and indeed to some extent er I can hardly be surprised as events move on during the course of the enquiry . |
| 11 | Part of the panel members is might be classed as partly walking wounded but endeavour to carry on during the course of the day , you will find out who 's the walking wounded . |
| 12 | People are still wondering exactly what went on during the filming of the notorious orgy scene in Erich von Stroheim 's The Wedding March in 1928 . |
| 13 | This coalification pattern is a consequence of the pre-orogenic coalification , a coalification which obviously did not proceed later on during the subsidence of the Ruhr Basin and the Münsterland in Cretaceous times , — at least not at the surface of the Carboniferous . |
| 14 | The father was on for the whole of the second act of The Hooded Owl , and never had that part of the play passed as slowly as it did that evening . |
| 15 | Eight cars were illuminated , including car 3 of 1885 ( see p. 37 ) , and the lights were kept on for the rest of the season to enhance the scene . |
| 16 | St Albans held on for the rest of the match to win 2–1 and take the ladies ' title for the second time and make up for four previous final defeats by Mutineers . |
| 17 | It rumbled on for the rest of the week . |
| 18 | There seemed only one answer , for India had seldom boasted fast bowlers of sufficient quality to operate much beyond the first half-dozen shine-removing overs before the spinners came on for the rest of the innings . |
| 19 | Right , the search is on for the person in the team who told me that Larry Adler 's birthday was today , and not February the tenth . |
| 20 | yes it 'd been about well on for the end of the war she got married . |
| 21 | Then anti-climax , as they watched its tail-lights in the pitchy dark , lights that seemed to throb and waver in their seared sight before they blazed redly when the brakes went on for the corner by the sailing club slipway . |
| 22 | Once more the search is on for the woman with the most beautiful hair — could it be you ? |
| 23 | One joke had a candidate for the Waffen-SS being asked at the muster whether he was willing to sign on for the duration of the war ; to which , he replied : ‘ No , at first only for twelve years . ’ |
| 24 | Prague was chosen on as the site of the permanent secretariat of the CSCE . |
| 25 | In an important sense , Hugh may almost be looked on as the instigator of the Investiture decree of 1078 , for he had gone to Rome for his episcopal consecration four years earlier in order to avoid contact with a secular ruler , who claimed the right both to nominate and to invest his nominee in his episcopal office . |
| 26 | Suspicion of the king lingered on after the conclusion of the parliament of 1341 , and was probably intensified by his solemn revocation of the concessions he had made in that parliament at a council attended by all the magnates in early October 1341 . |
| 27 | Titles which are identified as possible purchases need to be noted down during the course of the stock revision . |
| 28 | These ghastly memorials were frequently laid down during the lifetime of the persons they were intended to commemorate , in order that they might constantly be reminded that they were but mortal . |
| 29 | Moments later there was an almighty crash and a head flew in through the door of the hangar and bounced across the floor . |
| 30 | Now these houses were of the kind that when you walk in through the door at the front you go into a l sitting room , through the next door is what can be a kitchen cum living room , and the staircase is n't immediately obvious but what it is is it 's a door that looks like a cupboard . |