Example sentences of "[vb base] on [prep] [art] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I persisted , rather surprised that somebody who really had done something was so reticent , when there are people , like me for instance , who bleat on about the most tawdry experiences . |
| 2 | Transfer the boat to the cake drum and secure on with a little royal icing . |
| 3 | It does not matter whether the golden spike is hammered in somewhere in England or in France or in China , so long as we can make an arbitrary decision , stop arguing about words and get on with the much more difficult ( but much more rewarding ) task of correlation . |
| 4 | It is when you get on to the more high tech aspects of English Hops ' work that small and muted alarm bells begin to ring . |
| 5 | Oh now we get on to the really difficult stuff . |
| 6 | You 're not allowed to work on it and er that 's about it really , our programme , we 've decided to er start the pipe at the first position away from the tank construction and we 've , we 've set out , we employed a concrete layer and to lay out the pipes while we 're doing nothing and continue on with the so that while this gang is actually laying there 's only er six people in total . |
| 7 | From a steep ascent you emerge on to a surprisingly large plateau the size of a football field , covered with cairns , memorial plaques , the ruined observatory , and of course the people you left behind on the tourist path . |
| 8 | But now it 's all divorce and even the married ones carry on in a very odd way . |
| 9 | In the next chapter , I move on to a more interesting , more telling and more fruitful critique of inductivism . |
| 10 | Discussions of film and television genre habitually nod towards the broad stylistic categories fundamental to literary aesthetics since Aristotle — epic , lyric , drama , comedy , tragedy — and quickly move on to the more immediately recognizable categories under which industry products are branded and sold — horror , western , musical , soap opera , crime series . |