Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I persisted , rather surprised that somebody who really had done something was so reticent , when there are people , like me for instance , who bleat on about the most tawdry experiences . |
| 2 | As they passed through the town of Isserre , spots of rain spat on to the windscreen . |
| 3 | They pay thousands and thousands for the Van Goghs and Modiglianis they 'd have spat on at the time they were painted . |
| 4 | Cheered on by a large crowd , they added two more goals . |
| 5 | Cheered on by the huge German crowd , who 'd given him a two-minute standing ovation when his record was read out during the knock-up , Becker was devastating in the first set . |
| 6 | But the scent was so fresh , it was obvious the beasts would be unwilling to leave for a while , so Grant decided to ignore them and push on with the next stage of their operation . |
| 7 | There was also , he said , ‘ already enough vehicular access points on to the common without more being introduced ’ he said . |
| 8 | So , we bang on about the play and the staging and the big themes , and , if there 's any space left , then , as the chairman of Critics ' Forum wearily intones , ‘ I suppose we ought to say something about the performances . ’ |
| 9 | Secure the long bullrush leaves around the pond , sticking on with a little fondant . |
| 10 | Sticking on with a little royal icing or glue , wrap the strip carefully around the edge of the roof , scalloped edge upwards . |
| 11 | Innocently replying ‘ yes ’ , he found himself propelled on to the committee and later into the vice-chairmanship . |
| 12 | But she could n't forget , as the lights twinkled on around the entire hillside , that this man owned them all , every last apartment , every cypress , every swimming-pool and tennis court . |
| 13 | Two square escutcheon plates , each incised with a cross , have been riveted on to the surface above and below the keyhole . |
| 14 | Perhaps it is repetitive , but not for the sake of repetition , as each phrase carries a different emphasis and builds on to the prior phase for effect . |
| 15 | This project builds on upon the existing expertise of the Keele Life Histories Centre in the interpretation of autobiographies , in the historical study of social mobility , and in the analysis of social class and gender dynamics of historical change . |
| 16 | Also , the land which stretches back to Rockhill Farm from Swingswang on the opposite side of that road is all part and parcel of the County Council smallholdings , and only two fields away they sold off a piece of land a few years ago which has now been developed on to the frontage of the Banbury Road , which is in fact the Cromwell Business Park . |
| 17 | He called out : ‘ I ca n't hold on any longer , ’ then fell straight on the ledge below , bounded out into the air , turning a somersault backwards , and pitching on to a grass projection some 30′ lower down … |
| 18 | A tool called a shack-fork — a fork with curved tines and an iron bow at the shoulder was used to gather the swathes of barley into gavels ready for pitching on to the wagons . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | ‘ Once I got on to a main road I would n't have any trouble getting a lift . ’ |
| 21 | Yes , I know , yes but I mean it 's interesting at lunch time I had a , I had a working lunch with someone and a month after we had finished all the work and stuff , we got on to a whole pile of other things and , and I was talking about some of the -ists and one of the -ists I was talking about was feminism and how I 'd been in an amazing meeting a few weeks ago where you know I used that word and the women , it was all a meeting with women , the women there had absolutely freaked at the use of the word feminism and feminists . |
| 22 | ‘ I got on to a friend in Civitavecchia who seems to think that some mate of his saw Jeff this morning down at the harbour . ’ |
| 23 | At one stage she somehow got on to the subject of coal and said she simply did not believe it came from wood . |
| 24 | She added : ‘ When he eventually got on to the train he left the bird on a seat next to his cabin . |
| 25 | They got on to the airfield that night and started to place their bombs , but as the aircraft were widely dispersed , this took time in the dark . |
| 26 | We got on to the LRDG ration scale which was different from the rest of the army . |
| 27 | They got on to the field without difficulty in the middle of a bombing raid by the RAF on Benghazi , and sat there while their leader gave them a lecture on deer-stalking in the Highlands . |
| 28 | On Monday , the first day of the fair , Mum took me down to The Market Place after school and , armed with my fare , I got on to the children 's roundabout . |
| 29 | Before they got on to the subject of the commune they had been discussing which item of Hilbert 's former property they should sell next . |
| 30 | I paced the house for an hour or so and then got on to the council office . |