Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] [prep] [art] [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Leaving Sagaing for our return journey by boat to Prome we got on to a sandbank and had to wait there until two tugs pulled us off . |
| 2 | ‘ I got on to the hospital and then the local police lab and said I was from her insurance company and we operated a no pay clause if drink-driving was involved . ’ |
| 3 | Conversation , not only on that day , got on to An Adventure and would not easily get off it , though we wished to be speaking of other things . |
| 4 | Morley 's subjects were delightful , talented young people , clearly , who got on with the job and threatened no one . |
| 5 | I 'm anxious to know how they got on in the woods because Otley 's always nice going in and nasty when we 're coming out . |
| 6 | On the contrary , it was precisely the excessive femininity , laid on with a trowel as it were , that created the effect of someone pretending to be a woman , someone in fact rather desperately hoping to be taken for one . |
| 7 | The people were so strong in the faith for which their forebears had fought and suffered ; their steadfastness and courage , handed down through the ages , lived on in the men and women who only a few years ago had defied the invader of their homeland . |
| 8 | We rode on to the moors and found Linton lying in the same place as before . |
| 9 | Sharpe rode on down the slope till he reached the stream where , as the stallion drank , he reloaded the rifle and shoved the weapon into its holster . |
| 10 | The collapsed roof tumbled on to the drive and wrecked his car . |
| 11 | He made the claim in a letter to East Belfast MP Peter Robinson , passed on to the Herald and Post this week . |
| 12 | Some geezer got down into the tunnels and found his way out . ’ |
| 13 | She got down on the floor and ran her arm under the bookcase . |
| 14 | I was milking my goats in the field , and he got down on the ground and put his head near my foot . |
| 15 | The driver got down from the cab and walked slowly down the platform and disappeared through a solid wooden door . |
| 16 | He got down from the wall and walked on . |
| 17 | In Bawiti , the main village of the oasis , Salah got down from the bus and waved us after him . |
| 18 | ‘ Christ , Piper , that 's all we need , the bloody Navy ! ’ burst out Taff as two sailors got down from the jeep and started to unload their gear . |
| 19 | He got down from the jeep and walked into the villa , his shirt crumpled , and his footsteps weary . |
| 20 | The young officer got down from the train and went into the station building . |
| 21 | White doves fluttered down through the doorway and children swarmed in and out . |
| 22 | We speak of a judgement in a particular case or of a rule laid down in a judgement as being undoubtedly according to law , but as being ‘ unfair ’ or ‘ unjust ’ or ‘ inequitable ’ . |
| 23 | Her job is to push Cabinet ministers ‘ to do what is right ’ ; this involves reminding them of the Government 's strategy laid down in the manifestos and combating what she regards as the inertia inherent in departments . |
| 24 | Finally , some of the courses that were being provided did not meet the criteria laid down in the report and were clearly less effective than those which did . |
| 25 | It is certainly not due to anything laid down in the egg or due to anything special about the first two divisions . |
| 26 | In his well argued submissions Mr. Wall submitted that the discretion conferred on the court by article 13 ( a ) of the Convention is a discretion to be exercised ( a ) within the context of the purpose and principles laid down by the Convention and ( b ) by applying the criteria contained within the Convention itself , and that it is accordingly not a discretion to exercise the inherent jurisdiction of the court in wardship or under the Children Act 1989 so as to act in what the court perceives to be the best interests of the child . |
| 27 | Finally , I can not stress too strongly the importance which should be attached to the Bank of England having , within the limits laid down by the Act and the general law , unfettered and unimpeded scope for the exercise of their most important public duties of regulation under the Act in the interests of the public , who are surely entitled to rely on the Bank of England to exercise those powers with integrity . |
| 28 | Holders of such data must adhere to the very reasonable legal , moral and ethical principles laid down by the Act and the data must be held securely and confidentially . |
| 29 | By section 3(1) of the same Act the European Court is recognized as being the ultimate determinant of the principles of law laid down by the Treaties and subsequent EEC legislation . |
| 30 | The Department of National Heritage ( DNH ) says that it can not delay because otherwise exporters would fall foul of the tough penalties laid down by the Custom and Excise Management Act ( 1979 ) . |