Example sentences of "[conj] [vb base] [pron] on the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And as Joe was saying , he said , all we do is just go back to them and just try and say well look you know when you come to see us again do you want to accept this or regret it on the basis that you 're going to strike , but all the other section in the company 's accepted that . |
| 2 | I told the others , ‘ we either write some new songs and start behaving like a proper band again or knock it on the head , this time for good ’ . |
| 3 | ‘ So only the person who served the lobster or put it on the plates could have poisoned it ? ’ |
| 4 | Place the joint in a trivet over the tin , or put it on the oven rack directly above the roasting tin , so that the juices from the meat ‘ weep ’ into the potatoes and onions . |
| 5 | While running , Brownies must not drop the egg or hold it on the spoon with their fingers . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'll go and collect her , or meet her on the way home . |
| 7 | But at home you might put an open packet on a bench in the greenhouse or spill some seeds , or leave them on the grass while you run to answer the phone . |
| 8 | Or write or write it on the table and the table |
| 9 | You can either grown them in a pot , or sprinkle them on the cotton wool in the shape of your name or a pattern . |
| 10 | But however unpleasant monsoonal conditions can on occasion be , they are as nothing compared with the fearsome storms that hurl themselves on the Pacific with terrible regularity . |
| 11 | Jones revealed : ‘ A lot of people say to me ‘ that put you on the map ’ . |
| 12 | An interpretation I have often heard is that God 's ways are mysterious and wonderful , and it may well be that in the very last moments of the person 's life they had an encounter with God that set them on the path to eternal life . |
| 13 | Too easily we stand still and pat ourselves on the back ; before long we are losing ground . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | They jerk from side to side and rub themselves on the plants , but there is no redness or inflammation of the gills . |
| 16 | She stripped the bed and lay me on the bed . |
| 17 | I often have to get up with Graham , carry him into the living room and nurse him into the living room and nurse him on the armchair . |
| 18 | Beside him on the counter were large dirty bottles of gilt glass from which he would take out the stoppers and daub them on the sleeves of passers-by . |
| 19 | Then , with the right side of the garment facing the machine , pick up the stitches around the neck and place them on the machine . |
| 20 | Make the invitations in the shape of a skull and crossbones and place them on the door instead of balloons . |
| 21 | They erm , what they do they drive these big Tugmasters now with these lorries so that they plant all these erm forty foot trailers with er with er erm with a container on and place them on the ship . |
| 22 | It would be possible to test a large sample of readers , who would read nine texts and place them on the network . |
| 23 | Tell your audience that you are going to spell out the names of a complete suit of cards and , each time you spell out a letter , you are going to take the top card and place it on the bottom . |
| 24 | The object is for players , taking it in turns , to remove one of the pieces and place it on the top without the whole structure collapsing . |
| 25 | A bigger pad over the top , there 's the sling and towards your casualty and place it on the body down the straight and the elbow and the point at the same side , tuck this hand under and tuck all this underneath the arm and bring the rest of it round the back , tie it up as close to the fingers as you can and try to remember how to do a reef knot , at least always make sure it 's firm , is that alright for you ? |
| 26 | From the clew first position release your back hand and place it on the mast below the boom . |
| 27 | Then I imagine she turns round and I lean over and kiss her on the mouth . |
| 28 | Holding out her hand , her smile wide , she said , ‘ It 's good to see you home again , Martin , ’ and his answer was to take her hand and kiss her on the cheek and say , ‘ It 's good to be home , Aunt . |
| 29 | When the retention of 59 was announced , the Gazette responded : ‘ Sometime in the future , it may be possible to resurrect the old car and parade it on the Promenade as a specimen of what people in Blackpool used to enjoy travelling on ’ . |
| 30 | Many people spread their on the road , while others put branches in the fields and spread them on the road . |