Example sentences of "they [vb base] on the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They dance on the surface among the flies . |
| 2 | If they fail to answer a question correctly , they remain on the square they have reached but play passes to the next player . |
| 3 | make the mobility allowance available to everybody whatever their age , if they qualify on the grounds of disability ; |
| 4 | Instead they concentrate on the interests that lie behind the positions . |
| 5 | They graze on the algae that grow on the coral . |
| 6 | What can be said about the most recent generation of US television narrative subgenres is that they display on the screen a much higher awareness of the conventions they are operating than is the general rule on UK television , and they are therefore much more inclined towards an ironic or parodic re-scoring of generic regimes . |
| 7 | What else if I , I have to go and relieve er if I want er to only work down the cabin and it come to meal times cos we carried on dredging from six in the morning we do al all the winters round cos they eat on the dredger they used to eat three winches four winches on the dredger cos they 'd heave the dredger across the river and back again , wo when they come to meal times I used to have to go on and relieve the man what was driving that winch and I used t cos the er er chins coming round the barrel of the winch they used to override and I used to have a handle to knock them clear . |
| 8 | They sit on the board of more than one company , and this creates a network of interlocking directorships , which is illustrated in Figure 2 . |
| 9 | K : ‘ The evenings are a very special time but I ca n't take Chloe to the park because there is a hostel for down-and-outs by it and they sit on the park benches drinking and shouting abuse . |
| 10 | Well they sit , they sit on the steps do n't they ? |
| 11 | They sit on the steps |
| 12 | ‘ God , I did that well ! ’ he cries , as they sit on the café terrace sipping vermouth . |
| 13 | time and time again they sit on the sidelines saying this is what we think do n't talk to us about it do n't debate it , do n't ask us to think about it , take it or leave it , if you do n't give us what we want we 'll sit back and moan and sulk and they 've played , I think that 's a very irresponsible line they 've played in the five years I 've been on this council and I hope that er again the issue on the next item on the agenda represents a change of heart on their behalf . |
| 14 | ‘ I mean , ’ says Howard to a girl called Rose he meets at a party , as they sit on the stairs around two in the morning , talking seriously , her dark eyes looking up seriously into his , ‘ I 'm the best mountain-designer in the universe . |
| 15 | They pounce on the man that appears whoever he is . |
| 16 | ‘ Forty per cent of holly bushes have been lost , ’ said Will , ‘ and trees are actually being uprooted by the weight of the birds as they land on the branches . ‘ |
| 17 | As they land on the seabed , flatfish flap up the sand in a sudden flurry of rapid movements , and then quickly lie perfectly still . |
| 18 | What is less clear is the extent to which a demonstrable need must be proven before they insist on the adoption of otherwise practicable control measures . |
| 19 | It was kind of dark , and apparently what happened to this , towards the end of the period of parental investment , when the parents come back to feed the ducklings , they insist on the ducklings following them . |
| 20 | So whatever they make on the door |
| 21 | It is helpful for them to recognize that if they intend to carry through what they say , they may need to reduce the number of demands that they make on the child . |
| 22 | The problem is that the same — different task and the labelling task are unlikely to be matched in the demands they make on the subjects . |
| 23 | 7.3 If they touch on the point , discussions of restriction invariably proceed in a way which implies that the property of a restrictive adjective stands for a property which is to be ascribed to the entity of the noun phrase . |
| 24 | And just to make sure the volunteers sleep soundly they 'll be given a slap-up meal and as much wine and port as they want on the house . |
| 25 | They feast on the abundance of your house ; you give them drink from your river of delight . |
| 26 | Gurney 's poems celebrate his love of the Gloucestershire countryside with the same unsentimental vigour as they report on the realities of trench warfare and chart his gradual descent into madness . |
| 27 | The findings are actually somewhat more encouraging from the Tories ' point of view than they appear on the surface . |
| 28 | These splendid and intricate bronze castings are enigmatic : they appear on the scene without apparent precursors and with no obvious descendants . |
| 29 | I seem to remember they appear on the Glory Years tape ( as someone mentioned ) . |
| 30 | The same questions and the order in which they appear on the schedule would be administered , in a survey , to all respondents by all interviewers in the same way : this is to standardise stimuli . |