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

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1 Wreck On The Highway and Fade Away were bleak and enduring vignettes , while Independence Day and the title song were nothing less than monumental .
2 They sleep on the floor without mattress or bedcover .
3 People sleep on the floor or huddle round television sets .
4 Gina could crawl in beside them or sleep on the sofa downstairs if she preferred .
5 ‘ We got only two hours sleep on the mountain , ’ Grew said .
6 I sleep on the ground ; I have neither wife nor children , no miserable Governor 's mansion , but only earth and sky , and one rough cloak .
7 ‘ I sleep on the floor and have a bare house . ’
8 Those having no money were forced to give up their clothes and sleep on the bare floor , often with fatal results .
9 ‘ She would often get out in the night and sleep on the floor , usually next to us .
10 However they do desecrate the holiest places with their flash-bulbs and hand-held video cameras ; they invade peaceful monasteries and sleep on the outskirts of towns in their evil-smelling ‘ campers ’ .
11 MAX : I sleep on the right-hand side of my particular bed .
12 You do n't mind if I sleep on the way back , do you ? ’
13 It 's house Sunday , out Christmas at least it will be a bit more that was the instead and you and I sleep on the settee .
14 turf her out on the bed she might sleep with me and you sleep on the settee or would be a bit better than two beds than the settee , an extra bed space for her mum 's house too much for over Christmas , that 's not fair she 's not all over the place .
15 And I went berserk about two nights later and said for god 's sake you 're driving me bonkers , go away and sleep on the sofa .
16 So I just sleep on the floor .
17 OSF on the other hand contends that the complex software is on schedule for the next phase , its Distributed Services Release due in September .
18 There 's no strain on the ears as you heap on the gas .
19 The other one was that they would be th the direct debit re-present on the first of April would be running one day late erm which , as a consequence , means that the recall re-presents would come back one day late .
20 We fly on the wings of mutual allure , but I 'm not sure whether we 've reached the heavy confidence stage yet . ’
21 Regrettably , most other television programmes , notably ‘ fly on the wall ’ documentaries from Yorkshire Television and Central have sought to expose the inadequate conditions in which many mentally handicapped people live , especially in long stay hospitals , rather than discuss the progressive steps being made in the care of the mentally handicapped in Britain today .
22 Often working in small cooperatives and adopting the techniques of the earlier cinema vérité ( fly on the wall ) , feminists engaged in the filming of women by women .
23 ‘ I only fly on the Russian Front .
24 Fly on the wheel , the wheel I shall have to get it off .
25 In fact , most hunt on the ground and are unlikely to come across birds .
26 Larval dragonflies hunt on the bottom of ponds , grabbing worms and other small creatures with long protrusible mouth-parts .
27 Seabirds which hunt on the surface of the water use red oil droplets to cut out blue scattered light .
28 Water striders and pondskaters , which hunt on the surface of the water , have their eyes polarised in a similar way to reduce the glare in their aquatic home .
29 Henry McLeish , the shadow Scottish employment spokesman , said : ‘ Tens of thousands of Scots have been plunged into the black hole of long-term unemployment , now one of the main causes of poverty , and thousands more teeter on the brink . ’
30 As Britain 's major ports teeter on the brink of a national dock strike , one of the smallest ports in the land has stopped work .
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