Example sentences of "[vb base] on [indef pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and I would do it is to go during the day , knock on somebody 's door and pretend I 'm selling something . |
| 2 | That 's right , I mean you , you looked in , in , in , if you had a fire out in the sticks somewhere , you 'd look to see where the telephone was , where if there were any , and then knock on somebody 's door perhaps , at two o'clock in the morning and say can I use your telephone , and they were n't very happy sometimes I can tell you . |
| 3 | that 's what I 'd guessed , erm , so I said no , I said they 're fine , so she said oh I 'm ever so sorry I said do n't be I said these sort of things get around , I mean it 's , she kept go and then I went on to describe how I virtually done not too a dissimilar thing going up the road trying to talk to people about writing in to object , you know with this planning application and erm , I said I sort of knock on someone 's door up there and I thought it was the next door that the husband had died and it was that one |
| 4 | Just because we disagree on everything ! |
| 5 | ‘ Go and put on something beautiful , ’ he said at seven , after he had had two overt vodkas , and poured , as was his habit , a single , large , secret one , and had taken her to bed . |
| 6 | Her voice blew away the cobwebs and I put on something respectable to cross the road ; she sounded like a child going to a party . |
| 7 | Fo to make sh little nappies for the baby that was just been born and no clothes ready or fo and I 've I 've seen her you know as poor as we were my mam would sit there was patching sheets and er but I 've seen them whipped off the bed and put on somebody 's bed while they were having a baby or whatever . |
| 8 | We depend on everyone totally . |
| 9 | That 's what I like you co , you depend on someone helping me out and |
| 10 | ‘ I suppose as an anthropologist you look on everything with detachment , ’ she said . |
| 11 | Next week in New York talks begin on something even more ambitious : the conversion of the Partial Test-Ban Treaty ( which bans nuclear testing in the atmosphere , in space and underwater ) into a comprehensive test ban ( ending underground testing too ) . |
| 12 | Pigs often lie down and chew on nothing ; they may consume their food in ten minutes during the day . |
| 13 | I congratulate him on his robust stance in defence of British farmers , particularly those producing lamb , in stark contrast to the attitude of Labour Members , who wobble on everything . |
| 14 | Carp feed on anything edible they can find , animal or vegetable . |
| 15 | Both rely on something lost being found , a sheep in the first parable and a silver coin in the second . |
| 16 | Thus we can see that there is a broad variety of approaches which we may group under the heading of ‘ natural law theories ’ because they all rely on something other than state law to constitute the valid rules of a legal system . |
| 17 | I rely on everybody else , but she has to rely on me for her food and comfort . |
| 18 | To appreciate the remoteness of this morsel of land , one must set sail from Santiago , strike west into the great Pacific , and rely on one 's navigational skills . |
| 19 | At that stage he seems to have cut his natural philosophy from the worsted cliches of a poor childhood : ‘ never rely on anybody else ’ , ‘ make yourself independent as soon as you can ’ , ‘ put a bit by for a rainy day ’ , ‘ do n't let the good times run away with you ’ . |
| 20 | However hard you think , you always end up buying something useless , so it 's best to save time and decide on something useless straight off . |
| 21 | ‘ I 've got to try it on , even if I decide on something less saucy , ’ she laughed , her eyes alight with excitement . |
| 22 | You see , the way the Copts work is that if they decide on something , like a campaign of trouble-making and agitation , the first thing they do is set up an organization . |
| 23 | If I land on something where I need some money . |
| 24 | Pick on somebody else ! |
| 25 | Pick on someone your own size |
| 26 | If you talk about believing the Bible to be true and then go out and pick on someone who you do n't get on with , your friends may remind you that the Bible has something to say about Christians loving their enemies ! |
| 27 | ( Rule of Life No. 131 : If you ever really have to fight , pick on someone two weight divisions lower . |
| 28 | display quite appalling ignorance of other parts of the subject — it does n't seem to matter too much to the arts faculty or the historians , that you concentrate on something here and know nothing about important things elsewhere . |
| 29 | Concentrate on something ! |
| 30 | Concentrate on something outside yourself , she thought . |