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 | Mrs Roberts , indeed , who felt completely disoriented , clung on absurdly to the reality of Martin Parr . |
| 5 | ‘ And I presume this sort of thing goes on all over the country ? ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ What did he say ? ’ said Masklin , hanging on tightly to the sweater . |
| 10 | Eurotunnel appears to be hanging on only by the skin of its teeth . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | And so perhaps the time had come just to sit down somewhere on the ground and wait . |
| 13 | If it 's appropriate for him to sit down there with the project manager , then we have n't got a problem . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Darren , 21 , said : ‘ The smoke was very dense , so I got down low on the floor and pushed the kitchen door open . |
| 16 | Calvin takes a look at Jerry , mumbles something inaudible and sits down heavily on the step with his back to all of us . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | It could equally be phrased in a way that fits in more with the way of eminence . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | When we saw Helen Stoner 's light , Holmes and I got in quietly through the window . |
| 21 | Er other thing , and they lived down there opposite the garage , that was the electricity board house then . |
| 22 | In any case , sparks were riding the breeze and touching down far across the river in hidden gardens and remote rickyards . |
| 23 | A cowboy was out on the range when he came across an Indian with his ear pressed down hard against the trail . |
| 24 | We taxied in close to the runway and were all pushed down the exit ladder to make a sprint for the terminal building ; no automatic concertinaed walkways here . |
| 25 | Unit costs may be broken down further into the amount spent on teachers , books and equipment , ancillary staff , transport , and so on . |
| 26 | Just when his eyes were adjusting to the gloom , the novice ahead of him threw open a door , and Gabriel emerged into pale but blinding sunlight flaring in low through the window of the gallery . |
| 27 | As the train slows down considerably on the bend , look out beyond the Castoff Carpet Centre ( formerly Watley Baptist Chapel ) over the spire of Saint Greavsies and you may be able to spot the rusty corrugated sheeting , glistening muddily in the sunlight , that makes up the ground 's perimeter fencing . |
| 28 | Mr Gandhi has an election coming up and a big one-day cricket tournament not only goes down well with the electorate , but also goes a long way towards providing a short-term solution to the unemployment problem . |
| 29 | And Black goes down theatrically on the edge of the box and nothing has been given and Gemmell took a chance then he er overplayed his protest to the referee . |
| 30 | Yeah there 's a lot goes in apart from the chicken there 's a heck of lot goes in it in the |