Example sentences of "you [vb mod] [verb] on a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So you may decide on a statement such as , ‘ We intend never to buy any item on HP ’ . |
| 2 | Any so-called ‘ dirt ’ you may see on a piece of cotton wool after rubbing your skin with astringent or lotion may just be the remnants of make-up or skin cells , which are flaking off all the time . |
| 3 | You may toil on a project enthusiastically for many years , only to find that it all comes to naught because of a political change of direction . |
| 4 | Before you study how to make notes , you must decide on a system of storage that is simple and gives ready access to what has been written . |
| 5 | I went to my G P , having avoided her for fifteen years , having getting the old story every time you went well you must go on a diet ! |
| 6 | You must finish on a double . |
| 7 | You must concentrate on a dairy and maybe a few tender crops we could never grow up north . |
| 8 | You should go on a diet . |
| 9 | ‘ Your uncle and I think you should get on a train and come down to us right away , darling , ’ she said . |
| 10 | ( c ) Try to link together the scattered specific observations you might make on a text . |
| 11 | Say you 'll sleep on a sofa or a table , and you 'll be all right . |
| 12 | Over the last few months I 've been looking at the different types of files you 'll find on a PC — here 's a quick recap to refresh your memory . |
| 13 | Elizabeth Rex , of Harwich , raised the Tories ' much-criticised European elections poster whose message read : ‘ Stay at home on June 15 and you 'll live on a diet of Brussels . ’ |
| 14 | So all you 'd do is you 'd cast about for a friend , you 'd decide on a price that you would accept and if it was a friend , if you had to sell it and you needed fifteen quid to buy a pair of shoes or whatever , erm and you 'd like twenty , you 'd turn to a mate and go , Have you got twenty quid ? and he he 'd say yes or no . |
| 15 | The facilities on the A4 are the kind you 'd expect on a unit costing rather more . |
| 16 | Until recently , you could sit on a Shetland cliff-top in summer and watch the sea-birds — terns , kittiwakes , gulls , auks and sometimes shag — feeding in concentrated groups on or just under the surface of the sea . |
| 17 | The pre-season dispute over which contest — the Eddie Aikau or the Triple Crown — would have priority if the surf topped twenty feet at Waimea seemed about as relevant as an argument over how many angels you could fit on a pinhead . |
| 18 | And you could walk fifty yards down the road and there 'd be somebody else building and you could walk on a say is that the job how much ? |
| 19 | I mean i i if you could get in for a penny a week that was alright because when things got better you could build on a penny a week , you see ? |
| 20 | An example of a chart that you could construct on a card , or in your diary is shown opposite . |
| 21 | And if you 're short of something to do , ’ he added , ‘ you could get on a bus and go into the nearest town . |
| 22 | A few years ago they were making some of the best pop singles you could play on a jukebox : ‘ Something About You ’ , ‘ Leaving Me Now ’ , ‘ Lessons In Love ’ , all the kind of thing that you felt you were going to be sick of hearing before long but which still sounded good after the thousandth time . |
| 23 | Mrs. Campbell hoped that a tide waiter 's post might be found for the man , but there was more to it than charity , for , as she advised her cousin , William Anderson 's brother was a rich baker who had lately filled the office of deacon convener of trades in Stirling , and ‘ as he has a near connection with severalls in the present management I wish if possible you could fall on a way to get this small thing for him , it wou 'd make a noise amongest the folks to see that we are at pains to do for them ’ . |
| 24 | See there was a case a little while ago were n't there , about farmer ploughed up a p footpath you used to get on a stile to walk across the field . |
| 25 | Hardly the weather you would expect on a summer 's Monday morning in Corfu . |
| 26 | I do n't think you would go on a Sunday at . |
| 27 | Object orientation means that everything , from a program to a file , is an object , and you would work on a file rather than in a program — it 's an attitude , a state of mind , and can be emulated in Windows 3.1 to some extent by associating file extensions with applications and using object linking and embedding , a form of which appears in OS/2 . |
| 28 | Now , Wanda , can you tell me something you would find on a horse but not on any other animal ? |
| 29 | He was n't the prettiest sight you would see on a golf course but , since he always turned up at the practice ground the following morning more or less on time and more or less clean-shaven , it was obvious that he patronised his own circuit of cheap guesthouses . |
| 30 | Say a knuckle of silver from each of you ; no more than you would balance on a fingertip . |