Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] the [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is carried on through the medium of lullabies . |
| 2 | This continuity is now being carried on through the firm of Baker Bros . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The hard core of helpers worked on through the week of almost continuous sunshine and good fortune , and were supported by the essential ‘ reliefs ’ who came whenever they could to sell and to carry . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | They jogged on through the crowd of frightened people leaving the area , while the wizard took great mouthfuls of cool dawn air . |
| 7 | An advertising campaign that went on about the law of averages did n't seem to help when much of the press criticism rounded on the Escort as exactly a car for Mr Average . |
| 8 | I could however moan on about the likelihood of anyone ever wanting to listen to this collection straight through at one sitting , or that Miss Battle could have done rather more in the way of characterising each aria ( and her diction is also hardly crystal clear ) . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I heard them in the kitchen once , Mrs Donaldson and old Todd , going on about the sort of kid I was . |
| 11 | He 's been going on about the dignity of labour . ’ |
| 12 | HEAVEN is my witness that I do not want to be unfair to British Telecom , so I must , with frank and honest gaze , report that I have had several letters saying that I am up the pole in carrying on about the method of charging recently mentioned in this column . |
| 13 | They bubbled with enthusiasm , all talking at the same time while raving on about the beauty of the bush walk . |
| 14 | Angela got up my nose as usual on this point over lunch , banging on about the importance of seeing that Ministers were properly informed and by the right people . |
| 15 | Students of linguistics are taught early on about the importance of binary oppositions like this one , and are encouraged to look for two-term contrasts , x and not-x , in the linguistic data they analyse . |
| 16 | Corporate luminaries cackle on about the importance of quality , yet all too often use this management-babble as a substitute for effective leadership . |
| 17 | Boswell rattled on about the prospect of other travels with Johnson , perhaps to Sweden , where , hoped Boswell , they would see the King . |
| 18 | Does my hon. Friend agree that it is appalling that the Opposition whinge on about the failure of this country to export , when we know that what we need from both sides of the House is unanimity to help exporters and not complaints about them ? |
| 19 | She was always on about the amount of tea he drank . |
| 20 | As the winds begin to blow , the race is on off the coast of Britain to break the world windsurfing record . |
| 21 | GRAHAM Gooch will have plenty of shoulders to lean on during the tour of India . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Usually , a band or artist will have only a short working life in which to earn sufficient money to live on for the rest of their lives . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | It rumbled on for the rest of the week . |