Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | At dinner the undergraduate in his second year got on well with the ex-prime minister , which is a mark up to both sides . |
| 2 | Ex-US Army paramedic Matthew Brafman , 33 , had ‘ a reasonable bedside manner ’ and got on well with the patients at the geriatric hospital where he worked . |
| 3 | He liked what he saw of the school and got on well with the Chairman of the Governors , a fellow classicist . |
| 4 | Both Rachel and Nina got on well with the men , who in turn liked and respected the nursing team , and usually there was an easy-going air of camaraderie in the centre . |
| 5 | And I enjoyed it , it was quite good , I got on well with the staff . |
| 6 | I got on well with the teachers there before I went to Bridge Road . |
| 7 | He trusts me , we got on well in the old days . |
| 8 | We got on well from the moment we met and we still see each other from time to time , and talk for hours about the good old days . |
| 9 | Lucker is having none of my gung-ho enthusiasm and drives on regardless to the end of the peninsula . |
| 10 | The easiest way to turn the car was to drive on up to the hardstand by the church , and as he swung about he realised it was in fact the old foundations of small cottages , completely gone with The Bomber . |
| 11 | The broad gauge lived on only in the Paddington to Penzance expresses , corresponding goods trains and services on feeder lines . |
| 12 | Nisbet , with his first goal of the season , ultimately revived Rangers ' European ambitions and no matter how fortuitous his strike was , it may yet turn out to be of inestimable value to an Ibrox team who clung on bravely in the closing stages . |
| 13 | A few crofting families clung on there until the 19th century but the island is now uninhabited . |
| 14 | Mrs Roberts , indeed , who felt completely disoriented , clung on absurdly to the reality of Martin Parr . |
| 15 | We see action in one area not as self-contained or hermetically sealed , but as spilling over to affect and be affected by what goes on elsewhere under the same roof . |
| 16 | The emotional and mental link tying the child to its mother is usually very powerful , and goes on well after the physical birth itself . |
| 17 | ‘ And I presume this sort of thing goes on all over the country ? ’ |
| 18 | So we set out across the open grassy slope that led on up towards the forest . |
| 19 | Then he kicked his horse forward and led on out of the yard . |
| 20 | He expects me to carry on up at the manor as though it 's just another working day. ? |
| 21 | When Tom produced a half-firkin of ale , saved from his own wedding , it became apparent the celebration was going to carry on far into the night . |
| 22 | He was ‘ Lord Haw-Haw of Hamburg , in the darkest days of the war when Britain fought on alone against the might of the Fascist dictators . ’ |
| 23 | His partners , brought to the sticking point , agreed , somewhat reproachfully , and passed on firmly to the question of who was going to take over which of Angela 's clients . |
| 24 | ‘ What did he say ? ’ said Masklin , hanging on tightly to the sweater . |
| 25 | Eurotunnel appears to be hanging on only by the skin of its teeth . |
| 26 | I sit down here in the absolute silence with my reflection , in a sort of state of mystery . |
| 27 | When I switch on , I want you to go down the steps , sit down quietly on the floor by the end of the nozzle … and I want you to apologise . |
| 28 | Then clutching his suitcase , he tottered down on to the platform . |
| 29 | He stood for a minute or so gazing down expressionlessly at the pale , bloodless face of the Prophet . |
| 30 | And so perhaps the time had come just to sit down somewhere on the ground and wait . |