Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv prt] on the [noun sg] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The missiles would climb out of the atmosphere , using a two stage rocket motor , and home in on the heat emitted from a target satellite . |
| 2 | Consultants say most children with cancer have a good chance of recovery , but this new service , costing £750,000 a year , aims to improve treatment and research and cut down on the time spent on the ward . |
| 3 | All she wanted now was to get really stoned and lie back on the mattress thinking good thoughts . |
| 4 | Next time you get out on the bus ask them personally if you 've got a humby Is that still going ? |
| 5 | Those cells that end up on the inside become inner cell mass and those that end up on the outside , the trophoblast . |
| 6 | ‘ We 've put the homeless into homes but some just go back on the street begging . |
| 7 | Perhaps only three or four keys on the typewriter keyboard that the computer will have need to be pressed at all , and if a child presses the wrong one it does n't all stop and funny , you know , impersonal messages come up on the screen saying he 's done something wrong , it just ignores them and waits for one of the correct responses . |
| 8 | Was that slightly pooped gentleman with the waving arms who had ( oh God ! ) told Lord Boddy that his views were absolutely fascinating , and ( oh God oh God ! ) lit another of the television company 's cigarettes with their silver butane table-lighter every time he had seen the red light come up on the camera pointing at him — was that exuberantly shameful figure really identical with the anguished mortal man who now lay here stretched as taut as a piano-string in the dark ? |
| 9 | Finally , a newsletter , Studio News is issued on subscription to members , so that the wheels of communication are kept well-oiled , and not members miss out on the opportunity to seem their favourite demonstrator in action ! |