Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [prep] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The grass seemed to flow on for ever like a millpond sea . |
| 2 | This led to the usual talk of dismissing coach Luis Gradin , the man in charge throughout this period of successive defeats , but he will stay on at least until the end of the year when the present Argentine RU committee changes . |
| 3 | It 's expected to go on for up to six weeks . |
| 4 | And then she dived and rattled down the dirt-track which seemed to go on for ever across an empty hillside . |
| 5 | Our universe might be like that — it might have an infinite number of galaxies — but if so , it will have to go on for ever in all directions and would n't be the sort where an astronaut could do a round trip in a straight line . |
| 6 | What else used to go on in there in the way of activities you mentioned billiards and card games and dancing ? |
| 7 | NCR Corp has finally abandoned the traditional mainframe business , driven out of it by another company that is hanging on in there by its fingernails . |
| 8 | Sit down over there with Ricky and I 'll bring them to you . |
| 9 | Under its headline ‘ Mercantile Tricycles Denounced ’ , the Graphic described how , in default of paying a 10 shillings fine plus costs , this cycling desperado was sentenced to seven days ' imprisonment — and what is more , poor Thomas Duff had been estimated by the police to have been rattling along at somewhere between 8 and 10 miles per hour . |
| 10 | She looked at him blankly , conscious of the anticlimax that had brought her tumbling down from out of the clouds , then she nodded , while making an effort to convey the impression that his kiss had failed to have the slightest effect upon her . |
| 11 | Someone had ‘ discovered ’ Heymouth years before , and the beauty of this little fishing village cast an irresistible spell on those who , undaunted by its remote situation and the lack of organized transport , began to stream in from all over Britain . |
| 12 | She has to be — dotty , I mean — to do something she dearly does n't want to do , that is to go along from here with her husband and the bomb on the lugger . ’ |
| 13 | And if , one day , the pick-up does catch on over here with the vigour of Ray-Ban shades , Zippo lighters and Levi jeans , it will make the last great fashion car , the Golf GTi , look about as silly as velvet loon pants . |
| 14 | Work has come in from all over the UK , and even the charity Farm Africa uses the Hoy facility . |
| 15 | When we heard about , when we heard about the faxes that had come in from all around the world . |
| 16 | Bordeaux is traditionally the arena for a thrilling mass sprint finish and on the long straight ride through the flatlands of Les Landes we may have the awesome sight of the whole peloton at full speed , driving along at up to 60 kilometres per hour , not in pursuit of a breakaway , but in anticipation of the finish . |
| 17 | the farmers will hope it holds off at least for the next few weeks . |
| 18 | Or : ‘ The swift blinking of his eyes and the trembling of his sensitive hands … aroused feelings in him that he had not ever owned up to even to himself ’ ? |
| 19 | And that figure also coincides with the the estimated requirement figure that we 've come up with independently for the Greater York area , within Selby District anyway . |
| 20 | When the story ran on 3 November , it was picked up at once by the Western media , touching off an international scandal of such embarrassing proportions that president Reagan was forced to act . |
| 21 | The conversation was picked up from somewhere off the floor once dessert arrived and the three of them were talking again . |
| 22 | When you replace the receiver after calling them , you get caught up at once by all the other pressing demands on your time , while they , in some cases , may be left sitting in a silent room , turning over everything you have said , and sifting it eagerly for confirmation of your real affection and concern for them . |
| 23 | In London she settled in Highgate and ventured out from there on the variation of the Grand Tour that beckoned for the young in Europe in the mid 1960s : Paris , Rome , Turkey , Lebanon , Jordan , Tunisia , and across north Africa . |
| 24 | Many companies distribute their disks through Transend for you to try out for up to 90 days . |
| 25 | Anna had come into the world feet first and it took all the experience of Mrs Finklestein and the skill of the young Dr Arlen , who had come back at once with Denis , to turn the baby round without strangling the little thing with its own cord . |
| 26 | Taken aback , she could only stare in wide-eyed silence at the man who had materialised out of nowhere at her side . |
| 27 | Tests will be carried out on up to 500 children across the North West who have been treated by the doctor . |
| 28 | The percutaneous extraction of gall stones was first described in 1985 , for the treatment of high risk patients with acute cholecystitis , and was carried out in up to five stages using a transhepatic tract . |
| 29 | These weeks are looked back on affectionately by pupils as they remember the camaraderie they have developed with Staff , parent and senior pupils . |
| 30 | He dialled Essex and , the gods relenting , got through at once to the man he wanted . |