Example sentences of "on them [conj] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And his mercy is on them that fear him from generation to generation . |
| 2 | Send me letters here still and I shall ask my new friend Mr ( wall-eyed ) Wood ( prop. ) to sit on them or speed them to another valley by pigeon post . |
| 3 | And so you get these , these somewhat stupefied er or one over the eight wasps rolling around , er and er you know , not , not being terribly active , but that , that is the time at which of course people do tend to tread on them or pick them up and get stung . |
| 4 | As an alternative to ruled horizontal lines , any subtotals in columns can be offset to the right a little to assist the reader to focus on them or discard them as required . |
| 5 | 5 Be wary of topics such as politics , sex , race and religion which are very effective in getting a discussion going , as people often have strong feelings on them or find them interesting , but there is the danger of hostility being generated and the discussion getting out of control . |
| 6 | Canvassers for the main parties report ‘ white-hot indifference ’ mingled with ‘ raging boredom ’ as householders slam their doors on them or attack them with peashooters and water pistols from upper windows with a degree of commitment to the democratic process which experienced observers described as ‘ unprecedented ’ and ‘ profoundly conducive to thought ’ . |
| 7 | So after they had fasted and prayed , they placed their hands on them and sent them off . |
| 8 | Now she 's been having an argument with the council and while she 's been arguing , you know she 's got a grievance , while she 's been arguing she takes her anger out on them and tells them what she thinks of them . |
| 9 | And they spat on him , and took the reed and began to beat him on the head , and after they had mocked him they took his robe off and put his garments on them and led him away to be , to crucify him . |
| 10 | Maybe they 're allowing men to put this burden on them and accepting it too readily . |
| 11 | Privately Captain Simcox hoped the IRA would be a match for the Tans — well , perhaps that was expecting too much — but it would be something if they could put some manners on them and give them a bloody nose now and again . |
| 12 | People take malicious pleasure in cutting in on them and burning them off at traffic lights . |
| 13 | But they did not maintain an image ; or at least , not until an outsider pressed them , assembled one from what he thought were the parts , tried it out on them and modified it to accommodate their comments and additional information . |
| 14 | For example , they can do more when they can produce written language because they can write to people who are far away , or to institutions , government departments , newspapers etc. ; they can keep written records ; they can write down ideas in order to reflect on them and reformulate them ; they can elaborate complex arguments which require written support ; they can create and keep artistic artefacts — poems , plays , stories ; and so on . |
| 15 | He took them off , breathed on them and polished them clean with his handkerchief , which was now very dirty . |
| 16 | In one of his operations he had British Intelligence print hundreds of thousands of fake stamps with a picture of Himmler on them and distributed them through Switzerland into Germany . |
| 17 | Shildon closed in on them and mentioned he had arrived late because Wickham had wanted to question him . |