Example sentences of "you [vb base] on [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 You pop on to The Michael Aspel Show as a guest , crack a few jokes in a borrowed gown , plug your latest book/show/film/affair , mop up more than your rightful share of Sancerre in the Hostility Room , and go home in a studio limo .
2 ‘ But nothing prepares you for the blinding flash of flares and the noise of the thundercrackers as you run on to the field .
3 Bryony if you 're going to walk you need hold on to there because when you hang on to the handle it 's too high and you tip it over .
4 When you see it coming — remember that they do everything on the move — you jump on to the runner on the opposite side from the dog , take a deep breath and hope the runner wo n't kick it up .
5 A nasty cross sea seems to haunt its approach which nearly always brings you beam on to a lee shore and makes steering difficult .
6 Y … you get on at the back , ’ replied the driver in a squeaky voice .
7 You get on with the noise machine please .
8 In this sort of book you may well find that the pattern of how-will-he-get-out-of-this is more convenient to use while underneath you get on with the purpose of your story .
9 In a place like that it all depends how you get on with the screws : some lasses did take hell .
10 ‘ It 's like you get on to a list , ’ he suggests with a smile .
11 You drive on to a roundabout , another driver smashes right into your rear , you are determined to remain calm .
12 You continue on through the meadows of Cock marsh — a Site of Special Scientific Interest — to the banks of the Thames .
13 ‘ When you go on to a slope with hard snow and ice which is relatively steep then you need stiff sole boots which have an iron bar under the rubber , ’ he said .
14 And it will , if you , at the beginning of the sentence , however , it 's got a comma after it , before you go on to the rest of the sentence .
15 They say when you go on to the Stock Market you should be worried because you can lose your strength .
16 Just le lea you 're leading them home so let them pick a bit of grass and then you go on into the yard and I 'll give them the breakfast , they have their breakfast and while they 're eating their breakfast you 're doing your horse and you get finished and then you go and have yours .
17 You click on to the icons with a mouse to go from the word processor to a spreadsheet or to send a fax .
18 Then after the automatics , you move on to the juniors , at either age seven or eight .
19 You know , you carry on down the motorway , like the sun was on , on , and I was really getting sweaty hot with the sun , it was like on the win on the on er , the window
20 That 's a responsibility you take on with a family .
21 If , when you get on , all your weight is left on the back foot , the back of the board will inevitably sink and you will go for a swim — as you step on to the board move the weight forwards quickly .
22 Fig 51 When you place the weight over the back foot the tail will submerge , so as you step on to the board lean forwards placing weight through the front arm on to the mast foot .
23 Oh no , ’ you rave on at the box .
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