Example sentences of "[vb base] on [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the scent was so fresh , it was obvious the beasts would be unwilling to leave for a while , so Grant decided to ignore them and push on with the next stage of their operation . |
| 2 | Rejected in the former , they press on with the latter . |
| 3 | The story of some of these presses is a fascinating one to follow , as the printers surreptitiously pull off their pamphlets and broadsides in some kitchen or remote country house , load up and press on to the next location , with an eye ever over their shoulder for the pursuers . |
| 4 | 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 |
| 5 | These issues I touch on in the latter part of the chapter . |
| 6 | Minutes later we are heading for a small island group north of Vengsøya , to round that and head on for the next . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | For the large flag , paint a straw with silver food colouring and when dry , glue on to the large paper triangle . |
| 9 | THE immediate post-Christmas and New Year period is an opportune time to check your weight and count the excess pounds put on after the festive holiday — and a time to count the cost to your health and make a serious attempt to reduce the surplus . |
| 10 | A grant from the Theatre Trust should ensure plays put on in the former church now Saltburn 's Community Centre no longer literally bring the house down . |
| 11 | I 'd watched Motown and the blues catch on in the Sixties and the roots of all that stuff was laid in the Forties , so the funk was always going to catch on and stay . |
| 12 | hold on to every difficult breath |
| 13 | hold on to a finished thing ? |
| 14 | Daisy had brought her sketch pad , but found it difficult to capture the action and hold on to a straining Ethel . |
| 15 | The crosser is required to tight-rope walk on the single strand below and hold on to the two other lines for balance . |
| 16 | That 's it because what you well you either hold on to the first five or six and then you lose the rest or sometimes you remember the beginning and the end and you lose the bit in the middle , ah . |
| 17 | Hold on to the furthest part of the leg that you can reach without straining , lowering the body as close to the leg as possible . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Luke shouted up to Anna that he would take Flora in , and then walk on to the sixth-form college . |
| 20 | Walk on to the unstable cliff tops . |
| 21 | But in practice , neither popular music , however understood , nor its Others — ‘ folk song ’ , ‘ traditional music ’ , ‘ art music ’ , ‘ bourgeois music ’ , or whatever else — walk on to the historical stage in this uncontaminated form . |
| 22 | With my burdens lying against the brickwork of the bridge , I walk on along the same narrow path that now begins to climb the side of a rather bald looking hill . |
| 23 | Ophiolimna bairdi can easily be distinguished from O. lineata by a number of features : the disk is covered with granules , not spinelets ; which extend on to the oral frame ; the oral shield is a large triangle and the oral papillae have a different shape and arrangement ( see p. 60 ) |
| 24 | The disk is round covered with a dense coating of low hemispherical granules which extend on to the ventral interradial area ; disk diameter is 4 mm . |
| 25 | But as I read on about the growing disharmony between Mrs. Proudie and Mr. Slope , Trollope rose in my estimation and count him among my favourite authors . |
| 26 | Unlike baby goslings which lock on to the first moving object in sight , the newborn baby will be relatively undiscriminating about who tends his needs for the first three or four months of life . |
| 27 | From Dr Jaffery 's rooftop you could look out , past the anonymous walls which face on to the Old Delhi lanes , and see into the shady courtyards and the gardens which form the real heart of the Old City . |
| 28 | ‘ But not about the caves , ’ she laughed and , tugging at his arm , she insisted they tag on with the other tourists . |
| 29 | Later child psychologists have noted how older children find and hang on to a favoured object such as a rag . |
| 30 | Similarly , some couples assiduously hang on to a sexual problem as a defence against facing up to a much wider problem in their marriage . |