Example sentences of "[vb base] [verb] [noun] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it follows the announcement that Vauxhall intend to increase prices on all ranges from between three and five per cent at the end of this month . |
| 2 | And yet she 's jealous if I want to see Dad on my own , Caro thought . |
| 3 | If you want to see hell on earth go to the condemned hole the night before execution day . |
| 4 | I want to paint sunlight on children 's faces , or flowers in a hedge or a street after April rain . |
| 5 | General Motors and Ford both expect to lose money on car manufacturing this quarter for the first time since the 1982 recession , largely as a result of overcapacity in the market . |
| 6 | If you want to borrow money on an overdraft , ask your branch before doing so . |
| 7 | Erm we expect to see improvements on chlorine , but I ca n't give you a time . |
| 8 | So if we want to support pragmatism on the second , political dimension , we must accept and then exploit its central feature , its skepticism about legal rights . |
| 9 | How often is the decision left to junior doctors in the small hours of the morning who hesitate to increase dosage on the grounds that they do n't want to turn patients into addicts ? |
| 10 | Adjustable fittings are also useful when you want to avoid glare on glossy pages . |
| 11 | Such is the general expectation that married couples will have children that those who do not want them , or want to put parenthood on a few more years , or sadly learn that they can not conceive , find themselves having to respond to veiled or not so veiled queries . |
| 12 | The Chinese want to put pressure on Vietnam , and Peking has made clear that it will continue sending arms until the Vietnamese-installed government of Hun Sen agrees to some form of power-sharing that includes the Khmer Rouge . |
| 13 | They want to re-educate people on their driving weaknesses . |
| 14 | YOU long to shower gifts on everyone and hate the thought of being called a Scrooge . |
| 15 | Okay , anybody want to question Mr on any of the points ? |
| 16 | Great Britain Ltd want to mine pyrites on a large scale . |
| 17 | ‘ The military say they want to fly rockets on it , but when they see 'ow small it was , it did n't get called up . ’ |
| 18 | Computers are an excellent tool for people with this interest as researchers often want to recall information on a person and add to it . |
| 19 | Parents race to send son on trip of hope |
| 20 | It has set up a unit to develop OTC drugs because it believes the Government 's health experts want to reduce reliance on prescription drugs as part of cost-cutting measures . |
| 21 | ‘ We strongly suggest that if you open a new course you want to get feet on greens quickly and that means building pay as you play courses . ’ |
| 22 | Unfortunately with got to get some of those people who do n't want to come and it 's all about bums on seats it 's the old old saying bums on seats we 've got to get an answer how we do n't get to these here at the moment in the audience whether they are people who want to get bums on seats or how they know how to do it perhaps they should have a meeting like this every month I 've never seen so many of . |
| 23 | Most managers want to take commission on any deals they set up for the artist . |
| 24 | ‘ People ought to be able to decide whether they want to take risks on the basis of information which gives them an idea of how much risk there is , ’ says Helen Peggs , ‘ but at the moment the information they get is often distorted . ’ |
| 25 | On Rights of Way we want to we want to spend money on doing a sort of and we also want to reduce the backlog of work up . |
| 26 | We want to lay emphasis on the concept of community education : it represents a whole attitude to education which makes science , maths and all the other subjects students learn , meaningful by relating them to the real experiences of life outside school . |
| 27 | I propose we carry on where we left off , unless you never want to lay eyes on me again , of course . ’ |
| 28 | Now British scientists want to test paclitaxel on early-stage cancers , when the disease is less advanced , and are embarking on a huge research programme . |
| 29 | We want to follow Baywatch on ITV like everyone else . |
| 30 | I want to make profit on one size rather than er |