Example sentences of "[vb base] on [prep] some " in BNC.

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1 Hold on to some part of your legs which you can reach without straining .
2 ‘ Well , Rifleman Willoughby , the Board will watch how you get on with some interest … and we 'll interview you again in six months ’ time . ’
3 Horses , like people , all have their strengths and weaknesses ; but just as we all get on with some people and are not keen on others , so one horse can be a success with one owner and a disaster with another .
4 This is a very frustrating approach , however , and you will be constantly tempted to turn the model round and get on with some real flying .
5 She would just have to forget about Paris and Oxford for the rest of the day and get on with some work .
6 I think I 'll reserve my other comments , sir , when we get on to some of the later points .
7 I think , I 'll come back to that a little bit when we get on to some consideration of these press releases .
8 She did n't know whether the loose wheel would come off quite soon or stay on for some miles , but she realised that sooner or later the wheel would break loose and that if Daddy or the A.A. man did n't reach her before that happened Miss Clinton would be likely to crash .
9 So , we would go to the clinic , then have lunch and go on to some special place — an afternoon on a beach , a boat trip round the harbour , a visit to Old Sydney Town or to Taronga Park Zoo .
10 Mr Harvey always take us to the Kentucky Derby and we stay in Washington for the Preakness meeting , then go on to some friends of the Harveys in New York .
11 And number twenty easiest , not easier but easiest and the third task was the easiest of them all , easiest now they were all your new words , now we go on to some of the older words now , number twenty one , occupy occupy
12 If , in popular music , these take on to some extent an ‘ automatic ’ quality , this should not blind us to the contradictory potentials of such historical continuities .
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