Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.

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31 And I 've no problems to report on either or trains .
32 The campaign has been given additional clout this weekend , with referees under instruction to dismiss instantly anyone guilty of head-high tackles on or off the ball , and not to send them to the sin-bin where they have gone too often in the past .
33 As he progressed over the cobbled stretches of roads that give the race its title ‘ Hell of the North ’ , he was cheered on by police and public alike .
34 To Henry , the idea of being cheered on as you croaked , by Elinor , Mr and Mrs Is-the-Mitsubishi-Scratched-Yet , his mother , her mother , Maisie and anyone else with a few hours to spare was almost completely repulsive .
35 Cheered on by a large crowd , they added two more goals .
36 The cycling is cheered on by town crowds outside the cafes and brasseries , eating chips with mussels or andouillettes , the spiced sausages made of pigs ' chitterlings , all washed down with beer : the Artois lagers or the rich dark malts of Belgium .
37 Apparently industrialised nations and their politicians torture themselves into believing that if Third World countries are turned into amphitheatres of food and agricultural research , lustily cheered on and abetted by Western ‘ gurus ’ , everything will be hunky-dory .
38 He will be on the wing for Oxford this afternoon and will be cheered on by his father Malcolm , the last South African to win an Olympic medal before isolation ( the 400m bronze in Rome in 1960 ) .
39 Cheered on by the huge German crowd , who 'd given him a two-minute standing ovation when his record was read out during the knock-up , Becker was devastating in the first set .
40 The last one standing would be cheered on until he too dropped .
41 However , players excel and quality rises when one 's team is being cheered on by four or five thousand enthusiastic fans and even the hundred plus that turn up here every week can lift a team , so , please , continue your support in the forthcoming season .
42 Its aftershocks rumble on .
43 Food , of course , remains a topic of passionate concern — the focus of minor complaints and disagreements which rumble on for long periods — and outbursts of contentment which are extremely short-lived .
44 He wants to go back to the base camp before we push on towards Finland .
45 It would be far better to take the risk and push on . ’
46 Tethlis insisted that they push on but first , drawn by some irresistible influence , he must make a pilgrimage to the Altar of Khaine .
47 Push on to work .
48 These trays take four or six PP3s ( depending on the model of detector ) which push on to snap terminals in the bottom of the tray .
49 Realizing the importance of schemas and scripts is the first step , but that in itself gets us nowhere unless we push on to consider how a manager can discover what schemas actually exist and , if they are inappropriate , how to change them .
50 But the scent was so fresh , it was obvious the beasts would be unwilling to leave for a while , so Grant decided to ignore them and push on with the next stage of their operation .
51 While police in Strathclyde push on with their high-profile weapons amnesty , Operation Blade , the Lothian force has adopted a lower key approach in keeping with the scale of the problem .
52 There was also , he said , ‘ already enough vehicular access points on to the common without more being introduced ’ he said .
53 He went on to obtain plates centred on about 1300 selected areas scattered uniformly over 75 per cent of the whole sky , on which he was able to recognise some 44000 galaxies down to apparent magnitude about 20 .
54 A number of significant changes have occurred in British society since 1979 , and the one centred on in this book has been the emergence of an underclass .
55 But in rock these aspects are given their particular shape by , and centred on , a collectively understood manipulation of amplified sound .
56 At the level of policy implementation , impact centred on carefully demarcated areas .
57 Years afterwards , in fact decades afterwards , when Nietzsche himself was no longer available for comment , his sister repeatedly asserted that as a young professor he had always intended to produce a " large " book on Greece , not one dealing with , or centred on , a single topic , but a book that would deal comprehensively with various aspects of Greek civilization .
58 We may say , then , that by the summer of 1870 he was committed to a book centred on , and organized with reference to , Greek tragedy — although its exact scope still remained to be determined .
59 Having once established that certain polymeric materials are capable of crystallizing , fundamental studies are directed along two main channels of interest centred on
60 So , we bang on about the play and the staging and the big themes , and , if there 's any space left , then , as the chairman of Critics ' Forum wearily intones , ‘ I suppose we ought to say something about the performances . ’
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