Example sentences of "they [vb base] [adv prt] on [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is a pity , as it means that students find it harder to get their names known , and it means they lose out on a degree of publicity . |
| 2 | For most Americans , it is simply what they fly over on the way to either coast . |
| 3 | A recent RAC survey shows that only 16% of women know what to do if they break down on a motorway . |
| 4 | There was little need to hurry over breakfast , because even by nine o'clock there is barely enough light to see fine details , but shortly after nine the first starlings arrive for their morning meal , shoving and squabbling as they line up on the washing line to watch for the first human activity . |
| 5 | There are some male here who never develop antlers , they look just like females , and they hang about on the edge of harems , acting like females . |
| 6 | As has been said , Sam and Frodo experience it as thinking for a moment they have died and gone to Heaven , when they wake up on the field of Cormallen . |
| 7 | Without the dehumidifier the crew would often be cold and wet even before they set off on a mission . |
| 8 | Some of the larger birds , like the blackbirds and thrushes , often risk a little dive-bombing , in which they swoop down on the owl from a distance of about 30 feet , heading straight for it , and then swerve aside only at the very last moment , when they are no more than a foot away . |
| 9 | And when they go out on a football field they can do something about it . |
| 10 | I 'm not , I 'm not just blaming them all the time , I mean , the situation is , when they go out on the field , they are their own men , I ca n't do anything about there , I ca n't talk for them out there ; I can only put it on in training , and when they get out there , they 've got to do it theirselves . |
| 11 | Oh I 'm , I 'm not sure , it 's , it 's a few hundred pounds a year and I , I , I 'm really guessing it 's a few hundred pounds a year for what they call a retaining fee , for being firemen , and then it 's a few pounds every time they attend , and a lesser amount every time for an , a greater amount every time they go out on the fire engine , but it 's nothing er nothing exceptionally high , it 's , it 's very reasonable when you think they 've got other jobs to do |
| 12 | Coach Sinnamon must now ensure his team come out on Saturday equally motivated , for Holywood represent a big hurdle as they close in on a treble . |
| 13 | As they close in on the prey , they thrust their talons forward and the mighty claws take over . |
| 14 | The ladies ' timing is impeccable : usually they turn up on the day that social-security cheques are due to arrive in the post . |
| 15 | They start off on a barrow in a market and they build up an enormous industry . |
| 16 | That has been done to death by ex-managers and ex-record companies who use a list of about two dozen tracks which they write down on a sheet of paper , cut them up and put them in a hat , and whatever order they come out in that 's another album . |
| 17 | But at a drumming canter they bore down on the mass of men and beasts ahead , the circling Scots and the stationary English . |
| 18 | Mr Patten promises that the Government will ‘ allow ( sic ) the public to take local authorities to court if they fall down on the job of keeping the streets clean . |