Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not that he was succeeding ; Sergeant Crane was sitting , legs crossed , only just not fidgeting , as Bruce Davidson wore on through a lot of unnecessary detail . |
| 2 | Carry on through a strip of woodland and over a second stile . |
| 3 | The path , waymarked and cleared , led on through a boulder field . |
| 4 | He ate a gargantuan meal , starting with some plovers ' eggs they had overlooked earlier , working on through a few roast geese with a brace or so of ducklings on the side , and ending with one half of a cheese and a couple of bowls of fruit . |
| 5 | I remember Morris willing me on through a mist of deep deep unconsciousness . |
| 6 | Gradually her technique improved , and Water Gypsy glided on through a country solitude of farms and fields . |
| 7 | They drove on through a tunnel and then the landscape became more arid . |
| 8 | They moved on through a silent , sleeping village , only a few plumes of black smoke giving any sign of life . |
| 9 | This expression can be converted to a sum of squares simply by rotating the Cartesian frame around ON through an angle . |
| 10 | It flowers early but continues on through the summer . |
| 11 | Layton used to go to Leonard 's flat each morning where they would work for three hours or so , though sometimes letting the work run on through the afternoons . |
| 12 | The second was an untidy and protracted business , stretching on through the spring and summer and coinciding with the refusal of The Possessed to be contained within the limits of a ‘ tendentious ’ sideshow . |
| 13 | The trial ground on through the long hot summer in Pretoria . |
| 14 | We drove on through the village and turned into a clearing surrounded by a thickly wooded area . |
| 15 | Patronage did not die out with industrialization ; it lived on through the honorific offices of county clubs and national bodies . |
| 16 | Eileen lingered on through the morning and the brown September afternoon , her life twirling like a hectic-stricken leaf on a thin stem . |
| 17 | Caspar took no notice of him and carried on through the wood towards the field . |
| 18 | She was anxious at the long absence of her visitor , and at the voices , her mother 's voice in particular , sounding on and on through the afternoon . |
| 19 | The Oxford-educated daughter of a Norfolk farmer , she began her career as a local authority education officer and inspector of schools , married a headmaster she met on site — he is now an education administrator — moved on through the ranks of Norfolk County Council and chaired Norwich Health Authority . |
| 20 | It was at about this time that the Duke of Devonshire created the splendid avenue of lime trees which started beside some large houses — Afton House ; Bolton House and Linden House — on the south side of Chiswick High Road , and extending down to the northern boundary of Chiswick House grounds , sweeping on through the magnificent wrought-iron gates , at the end of Hogarth Lane , and continuing through the gardens to the house . |
| 21 | From here , the Westbury Brook flows on through the meadows , towards the Severn , where it once powered Severn Mill , on the river bank . |
| 22 | She gave no reply but went on through the store-room , whose walls were lined with shelves , some holding bottles of sweets , others boxes of all sizes , then through another door and into a corridor , from which , six feet to the right of her , a door led into the store-room of the tobacconist shop . |
| 23 | The raising of money for the Building Fund went on through the war years and many heroic efforts were made . |
| 24 | Our physical characteristics are handed on through the genes but the far more important part of us , the mental , lives on in the minds and eventually in the memory of the human race . |
| 25 | Thus , one could take a random sample of the battalions first and then on through the companies and platoons until the actual individual soldiers were sampled only from a limited number of platoons instead of from the whole brigade . |
| 26 | Billy took one of the baskets from Molly , and the three of them wandered on through the wood . |
| 27 | The presentation is crisp and the topics broken down into easily comprehensible parts : every page tells a story and does it in such a delightful way that the reader is led on through the book . |
| 28 | Rupert Hall 's short history of the college guides us through the years leading up to this event , then on through the 20th century to recent times . |
| 29 | Before that time , knowledge and wisdom were passed on through the spoken word , as they still are in much of the world . |
| 30 | They walked on through the driving rain . |