Example sentences of "[vb base] [verb] [noun sg] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | And yet she 's jealous if I want to see Dad on my own , Caro thought . |
| 2 | If you want to see hell on earth go to the condemned hole the night before execution day . |
| 3 | I want to paint sunlight on children 's faces , or flowers in a hedge or a street after April rain . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | If you want to borrow money on an overdraft , ask your branch before doing so . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ? |
| 8 | Adjustable fittings are also useful when you want to avoid glare on glossy pages . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Computers are an excellent tool for people with this interest as researchers often want to recall information on a person and add to it . |
| 12 | Parents race to send son on trip of hope |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Most managers want to take commission on any deals they set up for the artist . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | We want to follow Baywatch on ITV like everyone else . |
| 19 | I want to make profit on one size rather than er |
| 20 | Stop using butter on vegetables ; experiment with different herbs instead . |
| 21 | Forms are also included in the Inland Revenue explanatory leaflet IR 110 Can You Stop Paying Tax on Your Bank and Building Society Interest ? , obtainable from any tax office or from your bank/building society . |
| 22 | IR leaflet 110 Can You Stop Paying Tax on Your Bank and Building Society Interest ? ; |
| 23 | Members of the Developing in the Dale project in Teesdale also hope to start work on a photographic comparison of rural and urban life . |
| 24 | To avoid such a catastrophe they offer IBM a 12 point set of minimum recommendations , which include replacing the present leadership with ‘ technically current ’ managers and board members raided from younger companies , be tougher on salaries and golden handshakes , slow investment on traditional systems , give its semiconductor business complete perestroika , stop losing money on PCs or stop making them , and commercialise more of its research . |
| 25 | There 's a ‘ Speak Mandarin' campaign on too . |
| 26 | They hope to finish work on the school building before Easter and to complete the remainder of the project including demolition of the old school in June . |
| 27 | Stop dropping litter on it |
| 28 | Firms may enter into formal information agreements , under which they undertake to exchange information on costs , outputs , prices , and discounts . |
| 29 | Apart from removing an estimated thirty kilos of encrustation from the interior of each statue the restorers hope to gain information on the composition of the bronze alloy , the casting method and the origin of the casting clay . |
| 30 | Transactional analysis ( TA ) is the name given to a number of related concepts that seek to throw light on the way people behave and feel . |