Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] the [noun sg] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is carried on through the medium of lullabies . |
| 2 | This continuity is now being carried on through the firm of Baker Bros . |
| 3 | An advertising campaign that went on about the law of averages did n't seem to help when much of the press criticism rounded on the Escort as exactly a car for Mr Average . |
| 4 | I heard them in the kitchen once , Mrs Donaldson and old Todd , going on about the sort of kid I was . |
| 5 | He 's been going on about the dignity of labour . ’ |
| 6 | Corporate luminaries cackle on about the importance of quality , yet all too often use this management-babble as a substitute for effective leadership . |
| 7 | The second paragraph goes on about the report to council Environmental Services Committee by the District Chief . |
| 8 | She was always on about the amount of tea he drank . |
| 9 | As the winds begin to blow , the race is on off the coast of Britain to break the world windsurfing record . |
| 10 | GRAHAM Gooch will have plenty of shoulders to lean on during the tour of India . |
| 11 | Looking around the cobbled farmyard and at the farm buildings , the shelling and mortaring that went on during the attack on Breville had taken its toll . |
| 12 | Press relations activities must go on during the exhibition with media who attend or may be interested . |
| 13 | He found another vessel whose captain ( a Scot ) was prepared to sign him on for the voyage to New York . |
| 14 | On Sunday they went up to the common , a performance ; lifting the pram , Emma still insisted on for the sake of Ruth 's spine , into and off the tube , the escalators . |
| 15 | Put all that on for the attention of Mr Ray |
| 16 | Striped deck chairs had gone from the long , grey stretch of shingle below the Promenade , and the fairy-lights that spiralled around the white lampposts were never turned on after the beginning of October for reasons of economy . |
| 17 | Matches and trophies carried on after the outbreak of war in August 1914 , although the Autumn Meeting in October was almost cancelled . |
| 18 | In the 1988 General Election in Sweden the Social Democrats had a huge sympathy vote lingering on after the murder of Olaf Palme while he had been Prime Minister some years before . |
| 19 | You may smile , but does freedom of the press mean freedom to choose its own standards ? … down , as I would have been obliged to do had it not been burned down during the state of emergency which followed independence . |
| 20 | After being shot down during the Battle of Britain , Stienhilper became a PoW and after a short period in a British camp was transferred to Canada . |
| 21 | I do n't know how many breweries or pubs were knocked down during the redevelopment of Docklands . |
| 22 | Bias may creep in through the wording of questions ( which may be ambiguous , unintelligible or suggestive of a particular answer ) , through the careless recording of answers , through the interviewer 's ( perhaps unwitting ) influence over response-patterns and through a general failure of the interviewer to establish the kind of rapport with the respondent that enables him or her to give truthful answers on personal matters . |
| 23 | Goods brought in through the Port of London were widely distributed by way of the River Thames and the Grand Union Canal which linked to the Midlands . |
| 24 | She sat again at the dinner table and saw in the candlelight Hilary Robarts 's dark , discontented eyes staring intently at Alex Mair ; watched the planes of Miles Lessingham 's face fitfully lit by the leaping flames of the fire , saw his long-fingered hands reaching down for the bottle of claret , heard again that measured rather high voice speaking the unspeakable . |
| 25 | In the wide centre space , where one box alone stood along one wall , there was a comfortable chair for the redoubtable Ms Brown , along with a table , equipment lockers , a refrigerator and a heavy plastic water tank with a tap low down for the filling of buckets . |
| 26 | Maurice was deserted , Maurice having been invited , as he quite often was , to go down for the day to Brighton . |
| 27 | Rules were laid down for the management of schools , and the provision of finance by local authorities . |
| 28 | You will be taught about hazards both in the classroom and on the wards and should always adhere to procedures and policies laid down for the safety of patients and yourself . |
| 29 | It follows that the conditions laid down for the registration of vessels must not form an obstacle to freedom of establishment within the meaning of articles 52 et seq . |
| 30 | John talked , quickly and urgently , while Patrick drove along the M4 , crossed the Chiswick and Hammersmith Flyovers and slowed down for the traffic in Cromwell Road . |