Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv prt] on [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fairfax and Claudia sit down on camp chairs . |
| 2 | Sit down on daddy 's lap . |
| 3 | The policemen push down on Tepilit 's shoulders as the judge takes his seat to indicate that he , too , should sit . |
| 4 | You can do it to some extent through the public sector , but one of the worrying things I find about the present situation with this growth of generations , the clamp down on building — less than a hundred thousand houses , I think , completed in the U K last year — my estimate is that we should be building about two hundred and fifty thousand . |
| 5 | CLAMP DOWN ON CAR COSTS |
| 6 | Cash in on insularity : parochial concerns . |
| 7 | Cash in on Penny Drops at Doncaster |
| 8 | A communiqué said that government measures would ( i ) crack down on groups smuggling refugees across borders : ( ii ) standardize border controls ; ( iii ) deploy forces in remoter border areas ; and ( iv ) apply heavy fines for airlines failing to check travellers ' papers adequately at their point of departure . |
| 9 | Crack down on Dee cockling gangs hailed a success |
| 10 | In a message to the nation on June 28 Kaunda insisted that the economic reforms would go ahead , and asserted that he crack down on rioters . |
| 11 | His standard campaign speech is full of promises to expand the police force , crack down on crime and unite the city 's various ethnic groups . |
| 12 | One of the latest siezures in Operation Gemini , the police crack down on crime in Gloucestershire . |
| 13 | The second approach is to use lymphocytes that home in on tumours as vehicles for delivering a biological payload to the tumour . |
| 14 | The metabolic products of the activity at the growth cone come back down the axon by retrograde transport and home in on lysosomes in the cell body , or in some cases are processed by proteases in the cytosol . |
| 15 | I was particularly surprised to hear the hon. Member for Withington home in on Hertfordshire , because , among those giving evidence to the Select Committee was a Mr. Herbert Laming , the director of social services in Hertfordshire . |
| 16 | Pulse-producing species improve the definition of their electrical picture as they home in on prey by clicking at a faster rate . |
| 17 | Like bats , dolphins emit pulses at a rate of 10–20 per second , increasing the rate to up to 200 per second as they home in on prey . |
| 18 | Knowsley home in on Vase |
| 19 | Home in on udders , under-groin hot flesh-tent , |
| 20 | LANCASHIRE 'S prolific run-scorer Neil Fairbrother ( left ) and Middlesex 's exciting young spinner Phil Tufnell get into the Christmas spirit before joining up with the rest of their England colleagues who fly off on Monday for the winter tour to India . |
| 21 | Etna-watchers slip up on lava flow |
| 22 | In bathrooms , scale build up on shower heads constricts water flow , whilst build up around sanitary fittings and lavatory bowls is unsightly and unhygienic . |
| 23 | We urgently need a promotional video — one of the most effective tools to communicate with a wide audience — which we can show to groups and visitors within RBG ; send out on loan to groups , schools and other organisations , and use as a vehicle to promote ourselves to potential sponsors and supporters . |
| 24 | Luckily neither the G.P.O. or McAlpine 's had any vacancies and after a marathon hatchet-burying session Jake , Ali McMordie , Henry Cluney and Dolphin Taylor decided to dust off the old Stiff Little Fingers ' backdrop and head out on tour . |
| 25 | Vincent decided not to hang about for the landlord , but head back on foot the way they had come . |
| 26 | If the biblical fates go against him , Herluin will take all the vexation and shame out on Tutilo , with usury . |
| 27 | Back over on Emmerdale ( 9.64 million ) only the ducks have gone quackers ! |
| 28 | I mean , when I record a solo on an album , I put down on tape exactly what I think is the best possible lead for the song , so why should I mess with that ? |
| 29 | Put down on paper some of your critic 's messages , making them as specific as possible . |
| 30 | What we want to do now , can we stand on these ideas and put down on paper some more ideas of what circumstances and situations you could use for children 's role play . |