Example sentences of "[vb base] on [prep] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When federalists bleat on about how interdependent the world is , one wonders what world they live in . |
| 2 | Whether or not the avoidable harm , injury , and suffering should then be called ‘ crime ’ is a point legal theorists then dance on for ever ; but a ‘ crime ’ by any other name causes at least just as much pain and grief . |
| 3 | Cover the cake with the appropriate pieces of fondant — for the front side with the holes , gently press on before neatly cutting around the holes and removing the pieces of surplus fondant . |
| 4 | Well erm I actually stopped smoking about er , two years ago and was quite surprised at the amount of weight I put on in about five months , which was two stone , which I did n't think I 'd deserved ! |
| 5 | Some of them were some had got old cars in where the tyres , if it was a puncture it was these great big wheels with beaded edge tyres which you can , you put on in quite a different way from the modern car tyres . |
| 6 | That brass ring at her neck , attached to the zip all the way down that dress , like the ring you hold on to when you leap from a plane , plunging in free fall till you dare no more , then you pull the ring down , down and float in airy freedom , master of all you survey . |
| 7 | Bryony if you 're going to walk you need hold on to there because when you hang on to the handle it 's too high and you tip it over . |
| 8 | You hold on to there . |
| 9 | Either hold on to there or get in it . |
| 10 | No , I hold on in there till the last moment . |
| 11 | Had they not seen in the evening the clouds in the West with seas and lagoons , and in the night the lights of the canoes as they sail on for ever ? |
| 12 | Colour some fondant fleshy pink for the faces and hands , and mould on to appropriately coloured torsos and arms . |
| 13 | His grandsons remembered him as a very old man , fond of reading the Encyclopaedia Britannica and so failing in his memory that , when he dozed over one of the volumes , the boys would turn over several pages and he never noticed but read on from there when he woke up . |
| 14 | He seemed to have talent too , though the neural induction gauntlet was a bit old-fashioned now , even in Schiaparelli where things hang on for ever . |
| 15 | Hang on in there , boy ! ) |
| 16 | His eyes were open and seemed to be focusing pretty well , I just said to him , ‘ Hang on in there , Lester ’ — and he seemed to take it in . ’ |
| 17 | So Jenny 's afternoon tea , if you hang on in there , I will kindly donate a slice of my apricot cheesecake . |
| 18 | ‘ Please , sweetheart , hang on in there . |
| 19 | ‘ Hang on in there a minute , my lovely . |
| 20 | Hang on in there now , you 've found it ! |
| 21 | They open on to not only the main thoroughfares but also narrow alleys like Bucklersbury , which are so characteristic of the City and are rapidly being transformed out of recognition . |
| 22 | Yes , get on with today , I need my breakfast . |
| 23 | No , because the personal strategies which allow teachers to enthuse about one activity , put up with another and resent but simply get on with yet another can indeed be taken into account by heads . |
| 24 | We have made sure that we get on with as much as we can get through in our help for Iraq through UNHCR , but there is one man — and one man only — who stands in the dock for the denial of resources to the northern Iraqi people , and that is Saddam Hussein . |
| 25 | Oh , and before I leave the matter of ffeatherstonehaugh 's and pass on to more general issues , I 've at last cracked the surname problem . |
| 26 | The sloths , arboreal herbivores with stomachs and digestive systems showing convergence with ruminants , at least the two-toed ( Choloepus hoffmani ) and three-toed ( Bradypus infuscatus ) on Barro Colorado Island , feed on at least 31 species , not just one or two as was long-believed , and it is estimated that they consume about 14.7 g dry weight of leaves each day in the case of the three-toed sloth , a cropping-rate of 5.1 g of leaf per kg of sloth per day , whereas howler monkeys crop at seven times this rate . |
| 27 | ‘ the smoke of the innumerable tall chimneys lies over all like a poultice … houses and shops go on for ever , and at the back of them , blotting out all the rest of the world , rise great precipitous mills like frowning cliffs , at whose base are the small houses where the folks live like coneys at a mountain foot . |
| 28 | They go on for ever . |
| 29 | And Deviation 's ‘ Hammond Song ’ reminds one of the music they have in those appalling films about surfing that go on for ever , except with a dance beat . |
| 30 | But I go on for ever … ‘ |