Example sentences of "[vb base] on [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the full , six-strong complement of the member 's Committee representatives were present , and obviously in support , he would quickly realise the arithmetic of it and press on to a vote . |
| 2 | so you felt that and that pulse point there if you press on it hard enough you can actually stop the one in the wrist and of course that is controlling the flow of blood to the rest of the arm and you leave a pressure point closed off like that for no more than ten minutes , because if you left it on for too long that it means not sufficient blood 's getting to the rest of the , the limbs and the limb must have its blood supply , so you leave the pressure on for ten minutes and then release it , say for ten seconds just so say that the hand comes back pinkish again and if it 's not slowing down , back on with the pressure again for another ten minutes and that 's how you use it , tap off , ten minutes at the most , tap on for a little while , if it 's leaked again reapply , ten minutes at the most , tap on again , okay and that 's how you 'll control it , so if you do have a sit a situation where the bleeding was bad cos you 've got a , a limb severed , you could n't perhaps put sufficient direct pressure over that limb , this done , right , to control the bleeding then you could use indirect pressure , here , breaking or here , right in the , no playing now please , no trying to find this one right now , do this one tonight , in bed and the old lady said now what are you doing to me , never you mind , go to sleep |
| 3 | The heroes you have kind of linger on from a prior period when only a few records passed through your life , when you had the time to get fixated , spend weeks living inside a record . |
| 4 | hold on to a finished thing ? |
| 5 | Curve the body to one side and hold on to a part of your leg that you can reach easily , stretching the other arm straight up . |
| 6 | Daisy had brought her sketch pad , but found it difficult to capture the action and hold on to a straining Ethel . |
| 7 | Hankin , who spent 18 months at Peterborough under John Wile before being released in 1985 , saw his young braves survive numerous corners and hold on to a point against a side who have seen off Liverpool and Newcastle at home this season . |
| 8 | We considered how much we , ourselves , hold on to an eternally-caring-for-others role . |
| 9 | Yeah , hold on for a time , I 'll be with you in a minute . |
| 10 | This is no earthly voyage , and I see visions of ships that sail on no earthly sea : Our ships sail on upon a silent sea ; no wind , there is no sound but we move on . |
| 11 | A nasty cross sea seems to haunt its approach which nearly always brings you beam on to a lee shore and makes steering difficult . |
| 12 | But he sat and did n't look up and said , ‘ Hang on for a coach , ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Hang on for a … |
| 14 | Hang on for a second please . |
| 15 | I think you expect me to spell everything out , oh , just hang on for a moment will you Barbara , fine . |
| 16 | Similarly , some couples assiduously hang on to a sexual problem as a defence against facing up to a much wider problem in their marriage . |
| 17 | Later child psychologists have noted how older children find and hang on to a favoured object such as a rag . |
| 18 | One of the new-look business 's greatest successes proved to be its Food Courts , where up to five takeaway counters open on to a central , supervised seating area . |
| 19 | Two rooms open on to a garden . |
| 20 | Not only did the street door open on to a wide passage , but there were three large rooms downstairs , plus a scullery , the front room having a bay window . |
| 21 | Instead you manipulate the plots of the others to your own ends , playing one off against the others , letting them waste their energies in fruitless rivalries while you look on from a safe distance , waiting patiently for the moment to make your move , the day when I drop dead and you can come home and claim your own . |
| 22 | Finally , if liked , wrap the ribbon around the edge of the cake drum and secure on with a little glue . |
| 23 | Wrap around the bus and secure on with a dampened paint brush or a little royal icing . |
| 24 | Finally , wrap the ribbon around the cake drum and secure on with a little glue or royal icing . |
| 25 | Transfer the boat to the cake drum and secure on with a little royal icing . |
| 26 | You drive on to a roundabout , another driver smashes right into your rear , you are determined to remain calm . |
| 27 | Drive on to an airfield , thirty planes ahead , |
| 28 | Gooch 's men must accept their lot and get on with a job for which they are being paid around £20,000 a man . |
| 29 | This contact may be by post , by telephone or by personal meetings ; the choice will depend very much on how important you are to a magazine and the magazine to you and thus how often you are likely to be working with this particular publication , how physically near you are to each other and indeed how well you get on at a social level . |
| 30 | Once I get on to a good thing I keep it going until I run out of luck . |