Example sentences of "[vb base] on [art] [noun] " 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 Well that 's exactly what you 're doing when you sleep on a Sherpa Underblanket made from pure New Zealand Long Tufted lambswool .
3 His parents sleep on a setee in the living room .
4 Gina could crawl in beside them or sleep on the sofa downstairs if she preferred .
5 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 .
6 You do n't mind if I sleep on the way back , do you ? ’
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 They sleep on the floor without mattress or bedcover .
10 People sleep on the floor or huddle round television sets .
11 ‘ I sleep on the floor and have a bare house . ’
12 ‘ She would often get out in the night and sleep on the floor , usually next to us .
13 So I just sleep on the floor .
14 However they do desecrate the holiest places with their flash-bulbs and hand-held video cameras ; they invade peaceful monasteries and sleep on the outskirts of towns in their evil-smelling ‘ campers ’ .
15 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 .
16 ‘ We got only two hours sleep on the mountain , ’ Grew said .
17 Slosh on a bit of this , and that should do it .
18 There 's no strain on the ears as you heap on the gas .
19 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 .
20 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 .
21 We fly on the wings of mutual allure , but I 'm not sure whether we 've reached the heavy confidence stage yet . ’
22 Fly on the wheel , the wheel I shall have to get it off .
23 to have the customer try the product , e.g. fly on an aircraft ;
24 Larval dragonflies hunt on the bottom of ponds , grabbing worms and other small creatures with long protrusible mouth-parts .
25 Seabirds which hunt on the surface of the water use red oil droplets to cut out blue scattered light .
26 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 .
27 In fact , most hunt on the ground and are unlikely to come across birds .
28 I 've asked them as well and this might take them into the second week er to start with their pupils process on a Wednesday morning whereby in each classroom there would be a me master year plan even if it means they have to buy four and divide it up but I su I suggest that I would do something , you know , produce one and on that they will write pertinent to the the form to the form er and continue to add on that over , you know as and when it 's relevant er , dates for completion of course work , it might be module testing etcetera and I 'm going to ask at briefing that any anything that a teacher has put down for children , it might be just you know Mi Mr x's group is mentioned at briefing so they can write down what 's pertinent to them and therefore
29 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 . ’
30 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 .
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