Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] on [art] [noun] and " in BNC.

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1 Right , sit down on the bed and give me your legs . ’
2 I sit down on the bench and look up at the sky .
3 Go right and collect the bone , fall down , fly up on the fountain and collect the cocoa bean , fall down and jump along the pipes , go up on the platforms , go left at the top , get the cocoa bean and fall down , wait on the platform next to the pipes , go right on the ice cream , go up on the next ice cream , up on the platforms , bounce on the fountain , jump up three platforms and go right , collect the cocoa bean , climb down four platforms , climb up , go right to the top of the map , go right on the lifts and platforms and collect the blue object .
4 They appear again on the south and east sides of the Spanish Meseta and then on way down into Africa .
5 The gens is a group of people who act together on an egalitarian and communal basis .
6 It is right to distrust initiatives that depend only on the health and education sectors ; in the current political climate this is indeed oversimplistic .
7 ‘ I made that mistake once , but you should widen your interests , cut down on the travel and delegate more , ’ she told him , her expression serious .
8 Cut down on the feeding and forget the methylene blue and hopefully you will be successful with your fry next time .
9 The results depend crucially on the symmetry and on the relative sizes of the eigenvalues of the linearised flow near the origin .
10 GM has reduced its financial exposure in Brazil , but it has not reduced its long-term commitment : the continuing success of its assembly plants there depend crucially on the quality and reliability of its local suppliers , all of whom need continuing sources of assistance to upgrade their capabilities as technologies and competitive standards shift .
11 The chances of being treated preferentially or even of being treated on a left-alone basis also depend critically on the level and pace of change of the technology involved and on the degree of concentration and competition in the sector ( Mytelka , 1979 ; Milner , 1988 ; Grosse , 1989 ) .
12 The Teams can assist groups developing and implementing new ideas which will benefit the area , but depend largely on the initiative and drive of local people .
13 You sail away on the seas and I 'll commune with my spirit .
14 Pluralists , therefore , focus more on the individuals and groups who are centrally located in the ‘ black-box ’ of policy-making in the capitalist state .
15 the theories of accumulation on a world scale , or the capitalist world state , or lineages of absolutism depend ( a ) on the same displaced percipient and historicist observer who had been an Orientalist or colonial traveller three generations ago ; ( b ) they depend also on a homogenising and incorporating world historical scheme that assimilated non-synchronous developments , histories , cultures , and peoples to it ; and ( c ) they block and keep down latent epistemological critiques of the institutional , cultural and disciplinary instruments linking the incorporative practice of world history with partial knowledges like Orientalism on the one hand , and on the other , with continued ‘ Western ’ hegemony of the non-European , peripheral world .
16 Stressing the apparent universality , intractability and unacceptability of the problem of violence , the theories prominent in Anglo-Saxon lay ideas focus strongly on the irrationality and bestiality of violence … the approach to violence advocated in the discipline of ethology — in which violence is seen at least partly as having genetic determinants — is rather close to Anglo-Saxon folk ideas .
17 Discussions of this hybrid , called ‘ faction ’ or ‘ the new journalism ’ by some ( Kakutani 1980 ; Wolfe 1975 ) , focus principally on the overlap and rivalry between the novel and journalism .
18 Further options focus specifically on the information and communication technologies ; the management of industrial innovation and the implementation of new technologies .
19 You simply squeeze Colourfun Image Maker over a picture they like , place it face down on the garment and roll with a rolling pin .
20 Gazzer lay face down on the bank and inched himself out over the edge .
21 He put the card face down on the table and brushed off the torn fragments of paper with the side of his sore hand .
22 The children lie down on the floor and they have to stay absolutely still .
23 ‘ Right , lie down on the couch and answer a few of these questions , and we 'll see what we can do for you .
24 I lie down on the bench and try and make myself comfy .
25 We drove up one of the steep hills which look down on the city and are encircled by walls and bastions ( built by the great sixteenth-century architect Michele Sanmichele ) to the house where I was going to live .
26 ‘ Throughout the year people stand outside on the street and eat it .
27 We lie out on the stones and talk ,
28 Except ride round on a horse and pen a few articles when the mood took her .
29 Right sit up on the chair and we 'll read the story of the jumble sale .
30 Arthur will you stop jumping all over me , get down on the floor and play
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