Example sentences of "[vb base] on the [noun sg] " 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 | 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 . |
13 | ‘ We got only two hours sleep on the mountain , ’ Grew said . |
14 | There 's no strain on the ears as you heap on the gas . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | 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 . |
17 | Fly on the wheel , the wheel I shall have to get it off . |
18 | Larval dragonflies hunt on the bottom of ponds , grabbing worms and other small creatures with long protrusible mouth-parts . |
19 | Seabirds which hunt on the surface of the water use red oil droplets to cut out blue scattered light . |
20 | 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 . |
21 | In fact , most hunt on the ground and are unlikely to come across birds . |
22 | 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 . ’ |
23 | 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 . |
24 | 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 . |
25 | 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 . |
26 | The powers of the directors cease on the appointment of a liquidator . |
27 | To play you must deduce where 36 different images appear on the grid by studying a series of clues . |
28 | Certainly when they appear on the air using exotic callsigns Dxpeditions enable other , less adventurous , amateurs to share in their activities and that is perhaps one of the significant features of the hobby . |
29 | The same questions and the order in which they appear on the schedule would be administered , in a survey , to all respondents by all interviewers in the same way : this is to standardise stimuli . |
30 | As he ran he saw two dots appear on the lip of the entrance . |