Example sentences of "[vb base] on the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wreck On The Highway and Fade Away were bleak and enduring vignettes , while Independence Day and the title song were nothing less than monumental . |
| 2 | Gina could crawl in beside them or sleep on the sofa downstairs if she preferred . |
| 3 | And I went berserk about two nights later and said for god 's sake you 're driving me bonkers , go away and sleep on the sofa . |
| 4 | You do n't mind if I sleep on the way back , do you ? ’ |
| 5 | It 's house Sunday , out Christmas at least it will be a bit more that was the instead and you and I sleep on the settee . |
| 6 | turf her out on the bed she might sleep with me and you sleep on the settee or would be a bit better than two beds than the settee , an extra bed space for her mum 's house too much for over Christmas , that 's not fair she 's not all over the place . |
| 7 | They sleep on the floor without mattress or bedcover . |
| 8 | People sleep on the floor or huddle round television sets . |
| 9 | ‘ I sleep on the floor and have a bare house . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ She would often get out in the night and sleep on the floor , usually next to us . |
| 11 | So I just sleep on the floor . |
| 12 | However they do desecrate the holiest places with their flash-bulbs and hand-held video cameras ; they invade peaceful monasteries and sleep on the outskirts of towns in their evil-smelling ‘ campers ’ . |
| 13 | I sleep on the ground ; I have neither wife nor children , no miserable Governor 's mansion , but only earth and sky , and one rough cloak . |
| 14 | ‘ We got only two hours sleep on the mountain , ’ Grew said . |
| 15 | There 's no strain on the ears as you heap on the gas . |
| 16 | Regrettably , most other television programmes , notably ‘ fly on the wall ’ documentaries from Yorkshire Television and Central have sought to expose the inadequate conditions in which many mentally handicapped people live , especially in long stay hospitals , rather than discuss the progressive steps being made in the care of the mentally handicapped in Britain today . |
| 17 | Often working in small cooperatives and adopting the techniques of the earlier cinema vérité ( fly on the wall ) , feminists engaged in the filming of women by women . |
| 18 | We fly on the wings of mutual allure , but I 'm not sure whether we 've reached the heavy confidence stage yet . ’ |
| 19 | Fly on the wheel , the wheel I shall have to get it off . |
| 20 | Larval dragonflies hunt on the bottom of ponds , grabbing worms and other small creatures with long protrusible mouth-parts . |
| 21 | Seabirds which hunt on the surface of the water use red oil droplets to cut out blue scattered light . |
| 22 | Water striders and pondskaters , which hunt on the surface of the water , have their eyes polarised in a similar way to reduce the glare in their aquatic home . |
| 23 | In fact , most hunt on the ground and are unlikely to come across birds . |
| 24 | Henry McLeish , the shadow Scottish employment spokesman , said : ‘ Tens of thousands of Scots have been plunged into the black hole of long-term unemployment , now one of the main causes of poverty , and thousands more teeter on the brink . ’ |
| 25 | As Britain 's major ports teeter on the brink of a national dock strike , one of the smallest ports in the land has stopped work . |
| 26 | We er teeter on the edge of er a crisis virtually at the end of every day and if action is , and strong action is not taken very very quickly , er we have no doubt whatsoever , that the already serious level of , of er incidents within the prison system will escalate totally out of control . |
| 27 | The responsibility and duties of the family proceedings court cease on the making of the care order , subject to the provisions of section 34 which make provision for contact orders being made by the court . |
| 28 | The powers of the directors cease on the appointment of a liquidator . |
| 29 | Even the evaluators appear on the minutes as members present , without their role being specified ! |
| 30 | To play you must deduce where 36 different images appear on the grid by studying a series of clues . |