Example sentences of "they [vb base] [prep] [noun] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Antenor 's were returned to Athens after Alexander 's conquest , and stood beside their successors in Hellenistic and Roman times , but we know that the copies we have are from the second pair because they correspond to sketches on Athenian vases of the fifth century when the others were not available . |
| 2 | Yet they enjoy none of the advantages of debentureholders ; they receive a return on their money only if profits are earned ( and not necessarily even then ) , they rank after creditors on a winding-up and they have less effective remedies against the company . |
| 3 | What is most striking about such groupings is that they provide for careers on the football terraces . |
| 4 | They depend for business on Copts , but Prester John 's poor little Ethiopes are not even permitted to roll eggs at Easter . |
| 5 | As the above example shows , they depend in part on the context of the interaction . |
| 6 | None the less there is a need to consider three countervailing social control forces , which appear to have some effect on persons contemplating ‘ conventional ’ crimes , to see if they act as brakes on persons contemplating corporate crime . |
| 7 | Their faces : they look like people on their way into hospital , as if life is worryingly but fascinatingly strange . |
| 8 | In the past , exam fees were paid directly by local authorities , but now head teachers can spend any money they save through discounts on extra staff or maintenance . |
| 9 | They travel to Turkey on March 13 to carry out survey work in the Kizilinmak Delta , on the Black Sea coast , for a Turkish bird conservation body . |
| 10 | SCOTLAND will bid to lift their third Triple Crown in nine years when they travel to Twickenham on Saturday week with the same line-up which did them proud in the 20-0 victory over Wales . |
| 11 | All this space and they get to shit on a perfectly good balcony ? |
| 12 | There 's only one thing , it might mean more part time jobs for college leavers and things if they go to work on a Sunday in the big stores and they did , give them a foot up to start a job , then get taken on you know as . |
| 13 | They go to Phoenix on Saturday to play a team which has given them trouble in the past . |
| 14 | And that 's the case with inner and outer , They are perhaps more fundamentally different er in some respects that than than other options for an outer where they go for example on the western where they 're totally outside , I would accept that . |
| 15 | But they go on holiday on Thursday . |
| 16 | But they go on holiday on Thursday . |
| 17 | If the players would perform to their potential there would be more positive aspects to concentrate on , so here 's hoping they do at Battyburn on Saturday . |
| 18 | Bobby Robson will be more immediately concerned with the mood and strength of the Brazilians when they come to Wembley on March 28 . |
| 19 | They return to Hampden on May 9 to meet Rangers in their first final since 1975 . |
| 20 | I see the way forward as co-operation with local authorities , who would finance the upgrading and maintenance of the paths ( as they have for example on the Forth-Clyde at Falkirk and Clydebank ) . |
| 21 | That is to say , they behave like three-year-olds on false belief tasks even if their mental ages are , by other criteria , well above three years . |
| 22 | They lead to confusion on the part of students , and it may be too glib to say , as one sometimes hears , that such confusion and disorientation are an inherently desirable part of the educational process . |
| 23 | But , like everyone else , once they enter into discussions on policy with Ministers and civil servants they compromise their vaunted independence . |