Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [prep] a " 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 | ‘ Once I got on to a main road I would n't have any trouble getting a lift . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Well George got on with a lot of people like that but of course , he was a Mason you see . |
| 7 | When he got on as a substitute against Sweden he was first class ; in Albania he was one of our best players . ’ |
| 8 | English-born , actually , and we got on like a house on fire . |
| 9 | They got on like a house on fire and did n't stop talking afterwards — it was Julian and Robert who wound each other up . |
| 10 | We got on like a house on fire . |
| 11 | Gav and my Aunt Janice got on like a house on fire , a combined location and fate I occasionally wished on them as I lay awake listening to the sounds of their love-making , a pastime I sometimes suspected I shared with people in a large part of the surrounding community , not to say northern Europe . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Benbulbin ought to have been called Benbulbous , for one end of the barbaric table bulged upward in a great curve , with lesser knuckle-shapes on each side . |
| 14 | Well , you could have put that scene he made on at a theatre in the West End and charged for tickets , I reckon . |
| 15 | But the car lived on as a classic . |
| 16 | The fiery blast killed everyone on deck instantly , with the single exception of the captain , who lived on for a short time before becoming unconscious and falling overboard . |
| 17 | William lived on for a further 16 years after that , into the reign of George V and the First World War . |
| 18 | In Bath , Nicholas Godfrey , 16 , was plucked to safety from the swollen River Avon as he clung on to a branch . |
| 19 | However , they clung on to a victory which served to rekindle hopes among the travelling support that all was not lost after all in the title race , especially after news leaked through of Rangers ' demise at Celtic Park . |
| 20 | A hand feeling blindly for throat or arm or hair landed in the middle of Gabriel 's face , and Garvey 's fingers clung on like a starfish , pressing it out of shape . |
| 21 | Seconds later they were off again , and she shut her eyes tight , pressed her cheek against his back and clung on like a limpet . |
| 22 | The gates led right onto a busy road , there were some derelict public loos next door and a boating lake opposite . |
| 23 | We signed another form , paid another , smaller deposit , and checked right into a motel in Santa Barbara for a long rest . |
| 24 | In this he argued powerfully for a revival of social citizenship and the ‘ developmental state ’ . |
| 25 | The gravel track led downhill into a narrow belt of silver birch and rowan . |
| 26 | The Gaijin rode on for a moment . |
| 27 | They rode on at an easy trot , eating up the ground , until finally Murtach said in disgust : ‘ Bragad 's lady — out for a ride , it seems , with five of her husband 's escort for company . ’ |
| 28 | Round and round , they rode on in a frenzy , Boadicea just smiled and drank wine |
| 29 | I scattered pennies and rode on like a young lord through Aldgate and into London . |
| 30 | His first one-man show was at The Artists Gallery 1941 and he showed with Peggy Guggenheim 's Art of this Century in 1944 which led on to a one man-show at the Guggenheim in 1947 . |