Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 It flowers early but continues on through the summer .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 The trial ground on through the long hot summer in Pretoria .
5 We drove on through the village and turned into a clearing surrounded by a thickly wooded area .
6 Patronage did not die out with industrialization ; it lived on through the honorific offices of county clubs and national bodies .
7 Eileen lingered on through the morning and the brown September afternoon , her life twirling like a hectic-stricken leaf on a thin stem .
8 Caspar took no notice of him and carried on through the wood towards the field .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 From here , the Westbury Brook flows on through the meadows , towards the Severn , where it once powered Severn Mill , on the river bank .
13 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 .
14 The raising of money for the Building Fund went on through the war years and many heroic efforts were made .
15 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 .
16 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 .
17 Billy took one of the baskets from Molly , and the three of them wandered on through the wood .
18 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 .
19 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 .
20 Before that time , knowledge and wisdom were passed on through the spoken word , as they still are in much of the world .
21 They walked on through the driving rain .
22 Jones now sailed on through the North Sea , towards England , his progress marked by a trail of prizes which were sent back to France , his own ships , as he later wrote to Louis XVI , being ‘ weakened and embarrassed with prisoners ’ , whom he still hoped to exchange for Americans .
23 The Nene rises one mile west of Badby and flows on through the County , passing Peterborough and on to the Wash , 110 miles away .
24 Anderson chuckled goodbye and crashed on through the bushes , clink-clink-clinking in search of another rabbit hole .
25 He went on through the files but found nothing else of interest .
26 THE pathetic objections voiced by the Lords to allowing peerages to pass on through the female line really rammed home to me how outmoded this institution is .
27 Away from the prying eyes of the world , the newlyweds sailed the Aegean and Ionian Seas and on through the Suez Canal .
28 But before a settlement is reached , this accounting controversy will rumble on through the winter and early spring .
29 His objective had to be to drive on through the tumult and horror as best they could , not to get involved with individuals or groups , not to be sidetracked , so as to reach that further side , there to turn and repeat the dire process , difficult as this must be .
30 First , hair was lightened with Majiblond using easi-mesh , woven highlights then Majirel Wild Fox was painted on through the front .
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