Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] on [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then lie or sit down on the nearest piece of furniture , try to keep warm and wait calmly for help to arrive . |
| 2 | Again , change hands , push the tiller to where you were sitting , watch for the boom , as it swings across , straighten up and sit down on the new side . |
| 3 | Just wait until the last day , when you come , you sit down on the fucking stool and each leg goes like that ! |
| 4 | Glorious views open up across the Inner Sound to Skye and smaller islands ; road and railway jostle together on the last exciting mile to Kyle of Lochalsh . |
| 5 | If we concentrate only on the mythological representations and personifications of evil , we too easily relegate the Devil to our private worlds of personal torments and individual temptations . |
| 6 | They lay together on the bare , splintered boards . |
| 7 | Such juries bring together on an integrated basis a variety of relevant experience and opinion . |
| 8 | They grow opposite on a dark green , purple-tinged stem . |
| 9 | When we 're talking to the people on the phone we home in on a thousand pound . |
| 10 | Home in on a particular aspect . |
| 11 | At four and a half thousand pound of sales we start to pay extra fift in fact at four thousand pound we start but it 's only a small bonus so I home in on the bigger one . |
| 12 | There used to be a place who , place opposite on the same side as the the White Horse that eh , was selling plants , but do n't like that naked fence at all . |
| 13 | Mere mortals forgive better on a full stomach , so how about dinner on Saturday ? |
| 14 | The simplest explanation was that Maxham was getting nowhere with the Newley case ; and he 'd sent Viol along on the off chance , to put a little pressure on Lorton and see what happened . |
| 15 | Wash and dry the can well , and place upright on a greased baking tray . |
| 16 | Two of London 's top match teams head off on a magic mystery tour this Sunday with the historic London AA Shield as their goal . |
| 17 | And yet these would be better able to be active and grow quickly on a limited food supply , particularly in a stable equable climate . |
| 18 | In summing up on this ideas section , we seem to be moving towards advocating that you : ( i ) fix on some aims or targets or intentions ( ii ) decide how these might relate to the actions and behaviour of pupils and teachers ( iii ) try to produce a teaching unit that is illustrative of these intentions and that strives towards promoting some of the desired behaviour ( iv ) report back on the actual relationship between the intentions and the behaviour . |
| 19 | The Six agreed to hold an intergovernmental committee , to be headed by the tireless Paul-Henri Spaak , which would consider , flesh out and report back on the various proposals . |
| 20 | Mollies grow well on a varied diet . |
| 21 | but then on the erm , Saturday , and the , that 's , and then on I say then on the bloody Friday night what happened he fell out the bed I phoned |
| 22 | Far too tuneful to be described as hardcore and too noisy to be deemed a pop/punk band , The Venus Beads sit comfortably on the barbed wire fence in between . |
| 23 | Far too tuneful to be described as hardcore and too noisy to be deemed a pop/punk band , The Venus Beads sit comfortably on the barbed wire fence in between . |
| 24 | Waves which break vigorously on a steep beach . |
| 25 | Most guitarists know people who can outplay them in some way and so most register somewhere on the meek and self-effacing scale . |
| 26 | Glanton 's current plans for the Barnes depend entirely on a favourable judgment from the Orphans Court . |
| 27 | The recent advances in technology have combined tablets and flat displays to bring input and output together on the same surface , known as electronic paper . |
| 28 | However , with God himself at the focus of our lives , we can rise above mere curiosity and focus in on the true purpose for reading the Bible . |
| 29 | In ( a ) no geometrical details are allowed for and the bounds depend only on the relative volumes of the constituents . |
| 30 | The cure was slow ; she ate a little more each day , cut down on the aerobic treadmill and her periods returned . |