Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] [det] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 And , for the moment , all I want is a little peace and quiet although it 's not all that quiet , thanks to the gaps between the attic floorboards left by the cottage 's Victorian jerrybuilder : how Riva can snore on through all those goings-on I do not know .
2 we then drove through Stansted , Bishop 's Stortford and into the Hadhams where we had a cup of coffee with our daughter , then on through several other villages and back home to Royston .
3 You 're not still going on about all that star sign nonsense , are you ?
4 But Mum goes on about that wretched place as though he was chief jailer at Broadmoor .
5 ‘ Successive pairs of celebrities , one to open the envelope and read out the winner 's name , the other to hand over the bauble , live audience and viewers and listeners at home making fun of the acceptance speeches — brevity is brilliance — and executive types rolled out to ramble on about each different category , with entertainment acts in between . ’
6 He was a small boy of six who lived just around the corner from her , and for days he had been going on about this great talking parrot his father had given him .
7 I mean that because Deborah kept going on and on and on about this three hour thing did n't she ?
8 Do n't we ramble on about some strange things June ?
9 The pre-senter is now droning on about another minor leak of nuclear waste at Sellafield .
10 With and without the capital S. You 've heard him go on about those selective hierarchies ? ’
11 They got the wrong island , wrong producers , so what do they know , going on about these mad drug stories and us not getting our shit together ?
12 Next Friday , we 'll do our level best to keep er our hair on during another live edition of Central Weekend .
13 He sensed her bewilderment and became a shoulder for her to lean on and sometimes to cry on during this painful period .
14 Despite his most terrible threats , he could extract nothing about what went on during those eight days . "
15 Now I hope that by tomorrow afternoon you 're able to say yes all those objectives have been met but it may well be and I 'm sure it is that you as individuals have other objectives , you have other issues that you want to address er or put more emphasis on during these two days .
16 an used to be called metermarism and I say , it 's not a word it 's not a term I 've seen on for many many years and you do n't seen it many erm modern organic texts .
17 Well I think what came out of it firstly , was thanks to people like you , a tremendous amount of publicity for a problem that is certainly not a new one , one that has been going on for many many years .
18 He says without it the war would have gone on for many more years .
19 You keep it on for all that time ?
20 Daily assessment has gone on for all these years , with tests occasionally being undertaken — that is a reality .
21 the room over really but I mean if you can keep your heating on for that little bit of length of time
22 He says time may be running out — it has run out for alot … this may go on for several more years — we have n't go several more years .
23 There was going to be very little room in Frederica Potter 's life from now on for this imposed world of people and chairs you had to have because they were there .
24 Ring Howard Foster on for this 80-peg match , tickets £5 all in .
25 There is no automatic electronic cast on for this double rib so E6000 knitters should follow the above instructions .
26 Playing hard to get is a game which can go on for some considerable time , especially if one has as ardent a suitor as the French .
27 After these exchanges , fighting in Kurdestan went on for some considerable time .
28 At the time of Leathart 's survey , Taylor 's Level had been carried on for some 210 fathoms , and was then about 35 fathoms short of being below the deepening sump in the floor of Fleming 's .
29 His widow Margaret held on for another 45 years , beset on all sides by warring local landowners who claimed parts of the island , as its boundaries grew ever-closer to the Holderness mainland .
30 We sailed on for another two weeks .
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