Example sentences of "they [verb] [pers pn] [adv prt] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And Steve obediently went off , taking with him a jar of Marmite in a garden trowel as a substitute for coal in a shovel , and he stood out there on the front porch in the cold listening to the silence and looking at the stars , waiting for them to let him in on the last stroke of Big Ben on the radio : a faint , feeble echo of some once meaningful ritual , though what it had meant or now could mean nobody there knew or had ever known . |
| 2 | He did not put up any resistance when they flung him down on the rainswept slabs , and tied his ankles with a thick cord . |
| 3 | I mean I do n't , I do n't know whether say they flung them out on the street is the right thing , cos I , I , I mean there 's all these places like Mencap and there 's a big one in Wellingborough |
| 4 | It 's alright when they bring it up on the screen and then tell you . |
| 5 | Then they laid her back on the straw mattress and covered her with a sheet . |
| 6 | ‘ They let me in on the secret quite early — then people started joking about it . |
| 7 | So can we just develop that one says that in our own department they put it up on the wall so people complete it themselves . |
| 8 | They set it down on the floor in the middle of the room , as the T'ang had instructed them earlier , then backed away , heads lowered . |
| 9 | Anyway , I do know they hung Him up on the cross so it did n't do Him a lot of good . |
| 10 | they roll it out on the dance floor upstairs |
| 11 | And we flew from er that was from London , we flew from the Croydon Airport in London , and er we , you went down to er an , a small office near Victoria Station in these days and er you w we , you put your luggage in there and then they took you out on a special bus to Croydon . |
| 12 | If the parent feels they know a system that they have heard or read is successful , and if they try it out on the child and the child obviously enjoys it , if it becomes part of a game , then I ca n't see any harm in it , but I think the parent has to be scrupulously honest as to whether the child is enjoying it . |
| 13 | If the parent feels they know a system that they have heard or read is successful , and if they try it out on the child and the child obviously enjoys it , if it becomes part of a game , then I ca n't see any harm in it , but I think the parent has to be scrupulously honest as to whether the child is enjoying it . |
| 14 | and it was windy right , he got a tree a third of the height of that on a table , they puts it up on a table , and underneath the tree they have got one present which is member of the family from each member of the family , right , that is it , one present , it maybe a box of chocolates , you know , or a box of cigars , something like that , children wake up Christmas morning they have a bag which is about that big , with a full of sweets and bits and pieces , little toy car thing and they have one big present , right , and I 'll tell you what festivity over there is as well , that must , it because it 's not over dark because there no big glory about it , there so much more relaxed that , well Chris he said , yeah |
| 15 | Blood-red were his spurs i " the golden noon ; wine-red was his velvet coat ; When they shot him down on the highway , |
| 16 | Blood , blood red were his spurs , moon , rhymed red with his velvet coat , when they shot him down on the highway , down like a dog on the highway , and he lay in his blood on the highway , with a bunch of lace at his throat . |
| 17 | And as there is n't an Inquisition any more , they take it out on the horses . |
| 18 | When anything like this happens in Waldron City everybody starts shouting for action , and as they have n't much idea just what kind of action they expect they take it out on the administration , and that means Wilson . |
| 19 | He says they picked it up on the radar and had to take evasive action . |