Example sentences of "[vb base] [pron] on " in BNC.

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1 Will the hon. Gentleman please lay them on the table ?
2 Suspend them on long and short threads , tied to a wire coat-hanger .
3 Certainly , according to Hardie , ‘ in the case of allocating insurance premiums on particular lines of cover when setting individual budgets for the following year , head offices could look at their operating units ’ past claims records and load them on the poor performers while even awarding the equivalent of no claims bonuses to the good ones .
4 She had indeed once worked for a silversmith but had discovered that it was much easier to buy beads and acquire old pieces of jewellery , rearrange them artistically and sell them on market stalls throughout the country .
5 Steve says the small scale dealers buy 50 tablets from bigger dealers , and sell them on weekends before clubs open , or once they 're inside .
6 Made from the latest in Polymer technology Asics Gel has the unique ability to absorb vertical impact forces and disperse them on a horizontal plane .
7 She opened it , and found a very small cake with the words EAT ME on it .
8 Or just eat them on their own ?
9 Then they would bring their talons forward and reach their beaks out and in one swift movement crash them on the surface of the still lake , and out of the splashing spray caused by their wings as they beat to gain height again they would rise struggling with a fish in their talons . ’
10 Emotivism claims that the distinctive meaning of ethical words lies in their power ( in virtue of our early linguistic conditioning ) to stimulate emotions and attitudes in a hearer , and vent them on the part of the speaker .
11 But you pat me on the bottom and send me home , and hope I 'll ‘ keep in touch ’ !
12 We pat them on the back , as if they were dogs ;
13 It was a common sight then to see several boys , myself included , stand at the pavement 's edge , take out our little ‘ Willies ’ — raise them on high for elevation , and suddenly direct the streams of urine on to the watching , gaping girls .
14 The boys spear them on the reef .
15 Lay me on another half a gram ’ … and they 'd go , ‘ Alright ’ … in the end , you 'd owe them a coupla grams and you 'd have to go shoplifting in Chester or something 'cos you could n't go round town in case they were there … .
16 She stripped the bed and lay me on the bed .
17 Cash is overwhelmingly in sterling erm , can I just look up and remind my erm , refresh me on that .
18 And carry them , either carry them , or push them on a two-wheeled trolley , all through the round the lace market to 's , and various other And if I were lucky , and the 's van was going round the lace market , and I 'd got three or four parcels , I used to go with little Tommy and his horse and van , round the lace market , and he was delivering dress goods then .
19 Canon says that Still Video is an ideal medium for multimedia presentations because users can mix photographs , text and graphics on a computer , record them on a still video disk and display them on a TV .
20 The product now enables users to develop applications on target machines and then graphically display them on Unix workstations or X-terminals .
21 They 'll also get more local capability to off-load host processing , including a new Motif-run VT320 emulator , a local host chooser client , a local command shell and the ability to run local processes and display them on remote X displays .
22 The product now allows users to develop applications on target machines and then graphically display them on Unix workstations or X-Terminals .
23 ‘ We display them on a kind of rotation system , ’ he told her .
24 The EDFAX documentations states that the program allows users to compose and edit teletext pages of information store pages of information on disk recall pages of information from disk and display them on a screen create a local electronic magazine , database or notice board develop artistic and creative skills relating to the presentation of information develop language and communication skills gain an understanding of the videotext display format .
25 Too easily we stand still and pat ourselves on the back ; before long we are losing ground .
26 And it 's to you , the readers , that we beg one week 's indulgence as we uncurl our lips , pat ourselves on that back and take you , in the next 46 pages , on a runaway rollercoaster ride through the stuff and nonsense , faces and fads , ecstatic highs and miserable lows that have littered 40 years of doing battle with the monster that is popular culture .
27 BOXING Day and we launch ourselves on our own family tradition — a visit to the theatre .
28 But the patient was okay , it was a false alarm , please thank them and send them on their way .
29 You 'd see two fellows fighting in the street — you 'd pull them up and send them on their way .
30 I send them on regular trips abroad to keep up to date with new technology … ’
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