Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The beams are reflected at M 1 ( M 2 ) , return , recombine coherently at M again , and are detected by a photosensitive device . |
| 2 | Much later , in the eighteenth century , the Spanish artist Goya shows a caged owl being swooped upon by two free-flying birds , while a small caged bird sits nervously in front of it . |
| 3 | Taking notes is one of the best ways to stay alert and gain most from lectures , but how many notes and what sort ? |
| 4 | Like the peasants who hedge their bets , Mozambique sits uneasily between war and peace . |
| 5 | When presented with adequate messages , even though they may contain only the minimal information necessary to locate the target , young children are capable of the necessary perceptual discrimination and message decoding to perform effectively as listeners . |
| 6 | Hon W.L. MacKenzie King , Prime Minister of Canada , admitted shyly to Edna Jacques that he had been an ardent fan for over 20 years , and Mrs Nellie McClung , the Canadian novelist , said to her ‘ You have the gift , Edna dear , to ring bells in the hearts of the people ’ . |
| 7 | The four found Mary and Reggie in the kitchen , eating properly off plates . |
| 8 | The cycling is cheered on by town crowds outside the cafes and brasseries , eating chips with mussels or andouillettes , the spiced sausages made of pigs ' chitterlings , all washed down with beer : the Artois lagers or the rich dark malts of Belgium . |
| 9 | As he progressed over the cobbled stretches of roads that give the race its title ‘ Hell of the North ’ , he was cheered on by police and public alike . |
| 10 | He wants to go back to the base camp before we push on towards Finland . |
| 11 | He had travelled widely in America on behalf of peaceful arbitration of international disputes and in 1893 had persuaded the Commons to resolve in favour of an Anglo-American Treaty of Arbitration . |
| 12 | The feeling of staff over this issue had been communicated effectively to management . |
| 13 | Wear on leather soled shoes was saved by sticking on over soles made from pieces of old tyre inner tubes . |
| 14 | I know but the one that goes right to Church Hill , that one . |
| 15 | After following Wilton Lane to the north for around ¾ mile the route goes right to Dunsdale Farm and on to meet the B1269 . |
| 16 | Nothing goes right for Walter ; his father dies early , soon followed by his mother , a rigid , religious woman , who treats the boy harshly but teaches him good conduct , to write and to hold down a job in a sweet factory where he is patronised by his superiors and ridiculed by his fellow workers . |
| 17 | I hate it when you walk past someone goes right in front of you and you sort of give it you do n't care if he 's ten feet tall you just look at him like this and you see this nasty greeny . |
| 18 | The rest of the breakfasters , who had been gazing on with fascination , returned also to their newspapers , with the exception of Fishbane , on whom Gooseneck now turned . |
| 19 | What we concentrate on in Britain , is earth observation . |
| 20 | There had been early ties between Aragon ( consisting loosely of Aragon , the county of Barcelona and parts of Languedoc and Provence ) and the papacy , and in 1204 , alarmed by the prospect of the Albigensian Crusade and the effect on his vassals in the Languedoc , Peter II submitted his kingdom to the pope . |
| 21 | Cornelius would remain on at school until real work could be found for him . |
| 22 | ‘ The radio set can remain on for hours at a time ; you can enjoy it as background to reading , writing , homework , housework … . |
| 23 | After a brief stop-over at Patriot Hills they will be flown on to Punta Arenas in Chile where the expedition radio base was located . |
| 24 | Fortunately the couple had had a telephone number for the party Lori had left with , and a telephone call this morning had vouchsafed the unwelcome information that Lori had already flown on to Medellín . |
| 25 | With a Scottish mandate , Labour has progressed from the ‘ feeble fifty ’ to the ‘ ineffectual forty-nine ’ as it sits impotently at Westminster because of its allegiance to the Union and because of the English desire for Conservative governments . |
| 26 | Recently , we were having a debate in the Lords and we got on to nationalization and I said that one thing that we need to nationalize in this country is the Treasury , but nobody has ever succeeded . |
| 27 | The talk got on to quantum , eerie |
| 28 | We got on to dreams because Vern 's interested in them too . |
| 29 | Erm so Elizabeth got on to Aristocrats so what , what happened ? |
| 30 | Did n't you even got on to frogs and rabbits ? |