Example sentences of "you [vb base] [adv] on the [adj] " in BNC.

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No	Sentence
1	Just wait until the last day , when you come , you sit down on the fucking stool and each leg goes like that !
2	Yes you do , you break up on the twentieth !
3	From the terrace beside the chapel you look down on the playing fields of Eton .
4	You watch here on the other side of the room .
5	Erm you know but he 's saying the developments of the peasant movement has resulted in the rapid rise in their cultural level erm you know so on the one hand he 's , I mean in a way he 's , he 's trying to re-educate the whole peasant class erm and , and change their way of thinking which previously has obviously been going on , you know , since Confucian
6	What the camera can not reveal is when you set off on the second nine from the 10th tee , by the time you reach the green you have travelled nearly 60 feet downhill .
7	You go to church so fine and holy and when your neighbour fall down sick you pass by on the other side !
8	Otherwise you may find yourself later , as you sweep along on the actual business of writing , gradually drifting into producing quite another sort of book than the one you set out to write and in consequence disappointing readers ' expectations which at the beginning you had gone to trouble to arouse .
9	on well you go up on the left side .
10	The other thing that 's annoying about that is it then forces you into a completely useless small conversation such as : is that so-and-so ? and they say ‘ yes ’ , and you then feel like , they say ‘ yes ’ , as much as to say ‘ Well , why did n't you know that anyway ’ , and then you feel like saying , ‘ Well why did n't you say so ! ’ and you start off on the wrong foot .
11	I suggest , Mr Cameron , that you reflect not on the obvious arrogance of that statement , rather on the plight of 44 Conservative members who lost their seats . ’
12	You see there on the common there , there was a colliery was n't there ?

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