Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [adv prt] [v-ing] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The recent budget agreement means that in the current fiscal year , as America moves into recession , this discretionary component of fiscal policy is tightening to the tune of 1% of GNP , almost enough to cancel out easing in the automatic component . |
| 2 | Only to go on making towards the smoke , that was all they needed to do . |
| 3 | He emptied his glass in one gulp and I followed suit , only to end up spluttering over the table , coughing , with eyes watering , gasping for breath . |
| 4 | He had gone up to Magdalen College , asked at the Porters ' Lodge , discovered the grounds were closed ; then just carried on walking over the bridge , around the Plain , and back again down the High . |
| 5 | I believe that they are extant throughout Europe and that our ancient villages did not just grow up according to the ribbon development and river crossing theory of geography , but conform to a larger , geometric pattern . |
| 6 | If you just stand around waiting for the enemy to come to you then of course your ladz will get bored , and naturally they 'll start to get a bit fractious , then inevitably they 'll end up failing an Animosity test probably just when you do n't want them to . |
| 7 | The population nevertheless went on increasing until the decennial census of 1851 , when it reached a peak of about 424,000 . |
| 8 | He just kept on working in the field . |
| 9 | Well we 'll we 'll we 'll come back to that one later one but if you just carry on talking through the various er items where there is these there are these significant differences . |
| 10 | It 's pretty difficult to cross the road on account of all the traffic , so I just carry on walking on the pavement . |
| 11 | But as to advice — well , do n't just sit around waiting for the telephone to ring . |
| 12 | I thus set about preparing for the days ahead as , I imagine , a general might prepare for a battle : I devised with utmost care a special staff plan anticipating all sorts of eventualities ; I analysed where our weakest points lay and set about making contingency plans to fall back upon in the event of these points giving way ; I even gave the staff a military-style ‘ pep-talk ’ , impressing upon them that , for all their having to work at an exhausting rate , they could feel great pride in discharging their duties over the days that lay ahead . |
| 13 | Cos it really does , it still goes on settling into the |
| 14 | That community not only traverses frontiers , to form an invisible college ; it also extends , for some subjects , beyond institutions of higher education to include research institutes , industrial laboratories , professionals working in the field , and the individual scholar who ( no longer based in an institution ) still goes on contributing to the literature . |
| 15 | Although 80 per cent of the land was already privately owned , 20 per cent , mainly in the Midland counties , was still divided up according to the open-field system : the inhabitants of a village held land in common , and this common land , if suitable for cultivation , was divided into strips . |
| 16 | Both tests were also carried out according to the manufacturers ' instructions . |
| 17 | Ironically this Heath Robinson make-do also ended up contributing to the Dalek myth . |
| 18 | When Welling , who today take on Reading in the FA Cup second round , beat Gillingham at Priestfield in the last round , there was some confusion over the price of entry for juniors . |
| 19 | Caton repeated some earlier experiments on the electro-physiology of nerve and muscle preparations , and then set about recording from the exposed surface of the brain . |
| 20 | The lifeboat then lay off waiting for the tug . |
| 21 | You almost end up yearning with the RAF trainees to be back in the cockpit getting on with the business : flying . |
| 22 | A good-natured sandy-haired man , he welcomed me into his car with a smile , and then went on talking to the family sitting in the back , a young couple with a baby . |
| 23 | It is n't that all the matter in the Universe started off from one particular point in space and then kept on expanding into the rest of the space . |
| 24 | He turned to look at me as I approached , then carried on tending to the cows . |
| 25 | Cox , the cold automaton , got a waltz and , as it ended , stole a kiss , and then ran off giggling up the hill , back to the nursery . |
| 26 | Strange as the taste of defeat was , however , Kylie shrugged off the episode and instead carried on looking to the future . |
| 27 | Laba , who was later to become one of our shipmates , had been a fruit farmer and had only recently taken up sailing on the advice of the local shaman after a string of close calls with pythons . |