Example sentences of "[vb base] [verb] on [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Next year , I want to carry on with the course , and do my Highers as well . ’ |
| 2 | For example , he noted : ‘ There are certain of these streaks of pigment which appear licked on with the point of the tongue . ’ |
| 3 | At this juncture I merely want to hold on to the notion that workers are pressed , for a variety of reasons , into a dependent position of an infantile-like nature , which is felt to be unalterable , in many industrial enterprises . |
| 4 | But I want to hold on to the role . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ But you want to stay on for a couple more days ? |
| 6 | ‘ Let's face it , the Olympics are only once every four years and I want to stay on until the end . ’ |
| 7 | You 're not now , oh right okay that 's fine , the er , what I want you to do instead of writing , I mean two hundred words is , is probably feel nothing , but in fact because we want er it to be absolutely right , what I 'd like you to do this time is just write an appraisal , the contents thing er that we had last time we had if you like , content and appraisal and audience , but audience was only er , a sentence or two , I 'd simply like a , an appraisal , what your view of this is , if you 're writing that part of the review , so we 're only thinking in terms of a hundred words now , er what I 'd like you to do is to distribute yourselves over the laboratory , erm go wherever you want but do n't start talking with people , it 's not the , not the Cribben thing I just want to get on with the exercise that I 'm concerned with and write your appraisal , but obviously put your name on it and er if we meet back here thirty five minutes is that long enough for under a hundred words of excellent quality ? |
| 8 | They want to get on with the job , and are afraid of what a former Archbishop of York , Stuart Blanch , has described as ‘ analysis paralysis ’ setting in . |
| 9 | Mind you , she asks a lot of questions which tend to drive you insane when you want to get on with the job , and sometimes I used words not heard in the best society . |
| 10 | Alison Rubenstein discovered at an early age that if you want to get on in the world and have a good career , hard work is not enough — qualifications can also be a great help . |
| 11 | However , despite the mortality of L3 on the pasture it now seems that many survive in the soil for at least another year and on occasion appear to migrate on to the herbage . |
| 12 | At the Passover Eve meal the stories of the plagues are recited , and with each one a finger is dipped in a glass of wine and a drop of the wine let fall on to a plate . |
| 13 | Stop holding on to the wall like that ! ’ |
| 14 | Swindon insist there 's been no formal approach by Cheslea and still hope to hold on to the architect of Monday 's triumph . |
| 15 | Loads should be divided equally before carrying them , so that there is no one-sided strain — and remember not to twist your back as you dump shopping on to a car seat . |
| 16 | There must still be some people alive who recall going on to a Sunday School outing from Leicester to Foxton ; parties would travel to Market Harborough by train and either by boat or cart to Foxton . |
| 17 | If , on the other hand , they manage to hang on inside the uterus , they may be born successfully at full term three or six weeks later . |
| 18 | On the radio whenever Leeds have possession they seem to waffle on about a load of bollocks . |
| 19 | it gives you more time to get on with the job of managing your business . |
| 20 | well I mean you 're right in a way Bob those people who seem to get on within a company some of them are people who seem to be able to say the right words at the right time do n't they ? |
| 21 | Secondly , it is significant that several recent writers — such as Kolb , Donald and Becher — have moved away from unidimensional classifications of knowledge to multi-dimensional typologies , which seem to map on to the undergraduate curriculum better . |
| 22 | ‘ Women get turned on in the head first so speaking to them can work wonders . ’ |
| 23 | It would start out trying to reach us , but then get pulled on to the floor . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ We ca n't really know what actually goes on in the world , like whether there really is honey : all we really know , and therefore all we can really tell other people , is what we believe goes on in the world . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ I 've given up too many things in the past and I intend to hang on to every penny that the sale of this house fetches . |
| 26 | If it feels like the penis is getting soft during sex , try holding on to the base of the condom . |
| 27 | I think Carry On up the Khyber Pass was famous though with old erm |
| 28 | Call free on for a catalogue . |
| 29 | I now wish to go on to the order concerning access . |
| 30 | Well the thing is you see I think wha from what I 've gathered on from the radio programme is that the actual erm the attitude of the kids to the metro had got so much worse that they 're having to do something about it |