Example sentences of "you [vb base] on [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I think you 've lost hope , and the only thing I can tell you is that if you hang on hope will come back , and you must n't do anything until it does . ’ |
| 2 | Just as if , if we are in a sort , team leader or a section head as I 've shown , it does n't mean to say that we hold all the knowledge , we can pass it on to others , who can he pass it on to somebody else although you ultimately may be responsible for the training of other people , you do n't need to do it all yourself do you , but unless you pass on skills , you 're gon na make a sort of a quite a vicious circle for yourself are n't ya ? |
| 3 | If you carry on spending money like it 's going out of style you 'll end up in debt with a mass of interest to pay off . |
| 4 | It is most often used in whole group work , but it is also very productive in forum theatre , particularly if the role you take on functions as an obstacle which the class ( or representatives of the class ) have to find their way round by argument , persuasion and compromise . |
| 5 | ‘ You 're better off than the others , if you take on Gary 's horse . |
| 6 | Now if you want to argue about shop-girls , you take on Henry here . |
| 7 | You take on commitments and learn skills which have little to do with flexing muscles and heaving lungs . |