Example sentences of "[verb] on [verb] them [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The emphasis of paraprofessional training needs to build upon and extend the qualities and skills that these workers bring to the team rather than to concentrate on socializing them to professional or organizational ways of doing things . |
| 2 | M My job depends on getting them in here . |
| 3 | If the government 's hands were clean , why did it insist on hiding them behind its back ? |
| 4 | Why did Mrs Jenks insist on giving them to him for breakfast ? |
| 5 | Costs have got themselves a terrible name , mainly because narrow-minded finance people have concentrated on reducing them in an effort to increase profit . |
| 6 | ‘ Considerable amounts are being spent on replacing them with better services , and have been for the past few years . |
| 7 | not to let them get out of the pov that 's what I 'm saying , it suits them because they can buy up property much cheaper than if that two hundred pounds a week that 's being spent on bed and breakfast , that , they were spent on helping them with the problems as they are at the moment . |
| 8 | ASSURED TENANCIES — residential tenancies in properties that are newly built or have had at least £5000 spent on improving them in the two years before they were first let . |
| 9 | We take any four boys , and we concentrate on providing them with first-class , intensive training , and my contention is that we can produce a team in every way as competitive as Greycoats ' . ’ |
| 10 | To date this has been placed on involving them in acute services where the current bulk of expenditure is for district health authority purchasers . |
| 11 | Yet you insist on placing them with men who have already been convicted of far worse crimes . ’ |
| 12 | But this was because the outside world insisted on ostracising them at least as much as by any choice of their own . |
| 13 | He saw what appeared to be rich American clients and insisted on taking them to lunch first . |