Example sentences of "[vb base] on [prep] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | so you felt that and that pulse point there if you press on it hard enough you can actually stop the one in the wrist and of course that is controlling the flow of blood to the rest of the arm and you leave a pressure point closed off like that for no more than ten minutes , because if you left it on for too long that it means not sufficient blood 's getting to the rest of the , the limbs and the limb must have its blood supply , so you leave the pressure on for ten minutes and then release it , say for ten seconds just so say that the hand comes back pinkish again and if it 's not slowing down , back on with the pressure again for another ten minutes and that 's how you use it , tap off , ten minutes at the most , tap on for a little while , if it 's leaked again reapply , ten minutes at the most , tap on again , okay and that 's how you 'll control it , so if you do have a sit a situation where the bleeding was bad cos you 've got a , a limb severed , you could n't perhaps put sufficient direct pressure over that limb , this done , right , to control the bleeding then you could use indirect pressure , here , breaking or here , right in the , no playing now please , no trying to find this one right now , do this one tonight , in bed and the old lady said now what are you doing to me , never you mind , go to sleep |
2 | The heroes you have kind of linger on from a prior period when only a few records passed through your life , when you had the time to get fixated , spend weeks living inside a record . |
3 | hold on to a finished thing ? |
4 | Daisy had brought her sketch pad , but found it difficult to capture the action and hold on to a straining Ethel . |
5 | This is no earthly voyage , and I see visions of ships that sail on no earthly sea : Our ships sail on upon a silent sea ; no wind , there is no sound but we move on . |
6 | Later child psychologists have noted how older children find and hang on to a favoured object such as a rag . |
7 | Similarly , some couples assiduously hang on to a sexual problem as a defence against facing up to a much wider problem in their marriage . |
8 | Not only did the street door open on to a wide passage , but there were three large rooms downstairs , plus a scullery , the front room having a bay window . |
9 | Instead you manipulate the plots of the others to your own ends , playing one off against the others , letting them waste their energies in fruitless rivalries while you look on from a safe distance , waiting patiently for the moment to make your move , the day when I drop dead and you can come home and claim your own . |
10 | Wrap around the bus and secure on with a dampened paint brush or a little royal icing . |
11 | Finally , if liked , wrap the ribbon around the edge of the cake drum and secure on with a little glue . |
12 | Finally , wrap the ribbon around the cake drum and secure on with a little glue or royal icing . |
13 | This contact may be by post , by telephone or by personal meetings ; the choice will depend very much on how important you are to a magazine and the magazine to you and thus how often you are likely to be working with this particular publication , how physically near you are to each other and indeed how well you get on at a social level . |
14 | Once I get on to a good thing I keep it going until I run out of luck . |
15 | It says right get on to a new line . |
16 | Write your favourite joke or riddle on to a small piece of paper and put it inside your cracker . |
17 | Lift on to a greased baking sheet , join side down , brush with egg white and sprinkle with sugar . |
18 | And you 'd all got to get on , and stay on for a little while without touching the floor , then you could have another go . |
19 | Cut out long thin strips for trimming around the top edge of the boat and fix on with a dampened paint brush . |
20 | Chairman I I wonder whether I could just make a sort of general statement from the department 's view before we go on to a particular issue if I may . |
21 | Successful applicants go on to a three-day assessment course . |
22 | He said he was to have met another man at a school on Garscube Road in Maryhill and go on to an unknown warehouse . |
23 | In many respects , however , life in a special school is like any other day or boarding school , and it would be wrong to assume that rare and special things go on in a special school . |
24 | Life is very crude , and bonnie Princes Street a dream , but we soldier on with a good grace . |
25 | In due course , and all too soon , the excitement of the scenery fades as the road declines through woodland to the only buildings , the Nature Reserve of Inverpolly , there crossing the River Polly and climbing over a bare moorland dominated by Stac Polly , here seen end on as a slender spire , and then finally joins the Ullapool-Achiltibuie road . |
26 | To this day they live on as a nomadic people wandering in the wildernesses of northern Ulthuan and ranging across Cothique , Tiranoc and Chrace in small , fierce bands . |
27 | To this day they live on as a nomadic people wandering in the wildernesses of northern Ulthuan and ranging across Cothique , Tiranoc and Chrace in small , fierce bands . |
28 | If nothi if you , you do n't have an external force acting on something it just to remain stationary or , or carry on in a straight line and fixed speed , if . |
29 | Pupils are taught on a block system , which means that they concentrate on one particular activity for a certain number of weeks , then move on to a different activity . |
30 | Alternatively when you need to change the paint colour or type , or move on to a different job requiring another size of brush , simply change the brush head to either 1 , 1½ , or 2″ . |