Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [prep] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The grass seemed to flow on for ever like a millpond sea . |
| 2 | This led to the usual talk of dismissing coach Luis Gradin , the man in charge throughout this period of successive defeats , but he will stay on at least until the end of the year when the present Argentine RU committee changes . |
| 3 | And then she dived and rattled down the dirt-track which seemed to go on for ever across an empty hillside . |
| 4 | What else used to go on in there in the way of activities you mentioned billiards and card games and dancing ? |
| 5 | And if , one day , the pick-up does catch on over here with the vigour of Ray-Ban shades , Zippo lighters and Levi jeans , it will make the last great fashion car , the Golf GTi , look about as silly as velvet loon pants . |
| 6 | Work has come in from all over the UK , and even the charity Farm Africa uses the Hoy facility . |
| 7 | When we heard about , when we heard about the faxes that had come in from all around the world . |
| 8 | the farmers will hope it holds off at least for the next few weeks . |
| 9 | And that figure also coincides with the the estimated requirement figure that we 've come up with independently for the Greater York area , within Selby District anyway . |
| 10 | When the story ran on 3 November , it was picked up at once by the Western media , touching off an international scandal of such embarrassing proportions that president Reagan was forced to act . |
| 11 | The conversation was picked up from somewhere off the floor once dessert arrived and the three of them were talking again . |
| 12 | In London she settled in Highgate and ventured out from there on the variation of the Grand Tour that beckoned for the young in Europe in the mid 1960s : Paris , Rome , Turkey , Lebanon , Jordan , Tunisia , and across north Africa . |
| 13 | He dialled Essex and , the gods relenting , got through at once to the man he wanted . |
| 14 | Working for ICI enabled him to join their club at Norton Hall where a single croquet lawn has been in existence and played on at least since the end of the 1939–45 War . |
| 15 | No , I hold on in there till the last moment . |
| 16 | Tickets booked by telephone or by post can be collected up to 5pm on the day of screening at MAC . |
| 17 | Generally speaking , the amount of sleep lost is not made up for entirely on the recovery nights . |
| 18 | Looking back from here along the river , we saw the boar . |
| 19 | When you came back from away after the war , d did you notice any any changes here ? |
| 20 | Martin and I came back in together for a verse to give Bunny a lead in on his clarinet for three or four choruses and he was good , but probably barely audible above the traffic . |
| 21 | It is a beauty wrought out from within upon the flesh , the deposit , little cell by cell , of strange thoughts and fantastic reveries and exquisite passions . |
| 22 | Keys may be obtained after 2.00pm on Saturday of arrival & keys should be handed in by 10.00am on the Saturday of departure . |
| 23 | The enormous number of immigrants who poured in from all over the country congested the old area within the medieval walls of the City and created new suburbs all around . |
| 24 | The T & G traditionally have looked at the G M B as er look down at sometimes at the G M B. I 've heard them described before as the sweepers up union and various other things . |
| 25 | Yet Hitler himself referred to the S.A.S. as ‘ so-called commandos who are recruited in part from common criminals released from prison … captured S.A.S. troops must be handed over at once to the nearest Gestapo unit … these men are very dangerous , and the presence of S.A.S. troops must be immediately reported … they must be ruthlessly exterminated . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ Draw them under shadow ’ may mean no more than ‘ pull them out of the hall and into the dark ’ , but it implies also ‘ going we know not where ’ , dying and being handed over for ever to the powers of evil . |
| 27 | I mean , let's face it , I 'm in a no-win Situation , and quite honestly , I 'm so stuffed up to here with the whole Stupid mess that , I can tell you , I 've just Got a good mind to take the quick way out . |
| 28 | Apart from the sullen indie kids , a pallid Monday night atmosphere draped the venue and the gig was wrapped up by 10.15pm after a solid set and perfunctory encore . |
| 29 | There was a surge in so-called hotting displays 18 months ago , during the warm summer nights , when people turned up from all over the country to watch . |
| 30 | There was a surge in so-called hotting displays 18 months ago , during the warm summer nights , when people turned up from all over the country to watch . |