Example sentences of "they [vb base] [adv] [noun] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Similarly , A-level zoologists quickly overcome the unease they develop over pork on learning about the tapeworm ‘ s ( Taenia solium ) exotic lifestyle . |
| 2 | Oh no never in marketing as er I mean even the Institute of Directors and the Institute of er the C B I recognize now , in fact they put out papers on it , to say that network marketing is the way of the future . |
| 3 | They set up camp on the Kālādika , unloading the yaks and lighting a fire as the moon rose low behind the trees . |
| 4 | They set up camp on the uninhabited island ; and started a barbecue . |
| 5 | Back in Chania , the Calypso bar is filling with elderly Cretan men who click a lot : worry-beads clatter through their fiddling fingers , and they smack down counters on backgammon boards with ferocious violence . |
| 6 | Laws introduced to regulate corporate behaviour differ from most criminal laws in that they do not centre on the results of the breaking of the particular regulation . |
| 7 | Well they do periodically articles on income tax , insurance and investment and they 're all done by top of the mill people . |
| 8 | They fasten on theological truths as on an armoury of big sticks , and they rain down blows on their long-suffering faith , belabouring it for being substandard and for failing to believe what it should . |
| 9 | They buy only records on import from Outer Mongolia and stop playing them as soon as everyone else does ; they refuse to watch films without foreign subtitles , never read hardbacks , and will not enter a club if the general public can also get in . |