Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [adv] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He liked what he saw of the school and got on well with the Chairman of the Governors , a fellow classicist . |
| 2 | We got on well from the moment we met and we still see each other from time to time , and talk for hours about the good old days . |
| 3 | Lucker is having none of my gung-ho enthusiasm and drives on regardless to the end of the peninsula . |
| 4 | The easiest way to turn the car was to drive on up to the hardstand by the church , and as he swung about he realised it was in fact the old foundations of small cottages , completely gone with The Bomber . |
| 5 | Mrs Roberts , indeed , who felt completely disoriented , clung on absurdly to the reality of Martin Parr . |
| 6 | ‘ And I presume this sort of thing goes on all over the country ? ’ |
| 7 | So we set out across the open grassy slope that led on up towards the forest . |
| 8 | Then he kicked his horse forward and led on out of the yard . |
| 9 | He expects me to carry on up at the manor as though it 's just another working day. ? |
| 10 | When Tom produced a half-firkin of ale , saved from his own wedding , it became apparent the celebration was going to carry on far into the night . |
| 11 | He was ‘ Lord Haw-Haw of Hamburg , in the darkest days of the war when Britain fought on alone against the might of the Fascist dictators . ’ |
| 12 | His partners , brought to the sticking point , agreed , somewhat reproachfully , and passed on firmly to the question of who was going to take over which of Angela 's clients . |
| 13 | ‘ What did he say ? ’ said Masklin , hanging on tightly to the sweater . |
| 14 | Eurotunnel appears to be hanging on only by the skin of its teeth . |
| 15 | When I switch on , I want you to go down the steps , sit down quietly on the floor by the end of the nozzle … and I want you to apologise . |
| 16 | Then clutching his suitcase , he tottered down on to the platform . |
| 17 | And so perhaps the time had come just to sit down somewhere on the ground and wait . |
| 18 | If it 's appropriate for him to sit down there with the project manager , then we have n't got a problem . |
| 19 | Now one of the most important things that we 've established erm is that er you need to sit down still with the secretary of the club and say right now you 've got this list of businesses tell me more about them . |
| 20 | Darren , 21 , said : ‘ The smoke was very dense , so I got down low on the floor and pushed the kitchen door open . |
| 21 | Calvin takes a look at Jerry , mumbles something inaudible and sits down heavily on the step with his back to all of us . |
| 22 | A collection of nondescript prints , for example , can be given a sense of unity if each is mounted with the same distinctive colour : camel or chrome yellow or red , whichever fits in best with the room , and then edged all in the same way with a thin strip of wood or chrome or brass . |
| 23 | It could equally be phrased in a way that fits in more with the way of eminence . |
| 24 | He swooped down on to the grass and took stance by it . |
| 25 | Based very loosely on the Pat Barker novel Union Street — so loosely in fact that the Robert De Niro character Stanley does n't exist in the original — Stanley and Iris manages for most of its length to say a great deal about struggling along just above the poverty line . |
| 26 | When we saw Helen Stoner 's light , Holmes and I got in quietly through the window . |
| 27 | At the moment he 'd still have time to drive down on to the autobahn — providing the freezing fog came no closer . |
| 28 | Er other thing , and they lived down there opposite the garage , that was the electricity board house then . |
| 29 | Passengers poked their heads out of the doors like rabbits testing the wind and , deciding it was safe , hopped down on to the station platform where a sign read : " Cook , Queen of the Nullarbor . |
| 30 | In any case , sparks were riding the breeze and touching down far across the river in hidden gardens and remote rickyards . |