Example sentences of "on they [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | we was engaged , oh I have talked to other people but we was engaged in making locks but most of the locks , well they did do a , er wardrobe locks , small cabinet locks , lever locks but one of the biggest kind of locks we di er made was the locks for car cars and vans which , in them days , was was fantastic because most of the car bodies was of wood , the , the , the , the framework was wood , so erm the locks er were three or four , four by five er seven by eight and selvedges on them fourteen inches long , er bolts er the , the bolt mechanism would be anything from five eighths to an inch in di er er square with a radius on the end erm th there was er there was the sidecar locks which were smaller erm that was the sort of locks they made . |
| 2 | Neither man liked the other , but they had strewn eggs in their own pathways towards each other and they walked on them all afternoon . |
| 3 | Al any mark or a white spot on them all tricks of the trade . |
| 4 | Tom , if you 're in charge of that , let's get these delegates on them front pages , we can do without the Tories . |
| 5 | She 'd call on them one day , he was confident of that . |
| 6 | concrete stairs and , George nearly killed himself on them one morning , but er , and we tried everything to get out of there you know , no one would exchange a two bedroom maisonette for a house and of course I longed for a garden , but , and er George got a job in Hatfield and they offered this three bedroom house The Commission for The New Town , rent was cheaper than here , so we moved over there , but er , as I say we were only there two , three years and we came back again , we were over here , we used to come over here three times a week , when we lived there did n't we ? |
| 7 | In committing the count 's rights to written record , Henry 's clerks had conferred on them new authority . |
| 8 | They said their father contacted them suddenly for the first time two months ago after walking out on them 18 years ago . |
| 9 | This means that a surplus of 38 votes can only be transferred if there are 3,800 voting papers or fewer which have expressed on them subsequent preferences for continuing candidates . |
| 10 | They did not often visit us , for Dad called on them several times every week , being a good and generous brother . |
| 11 | And als , erm and on them three services is what we said a few moments ago , they got the choice of three different options . |
| 12 | The belly was covered in long piercing spikes , and I was going to fall on them any minute , and thousands of spikes would plunge into me — puncture me , penetrate my flesh — and out would pour my life 's blood , red and sticky , all down my body and down the elephant 's body and streakily into the waters of the pond . |
| 13 | " … last time I ever go anywhere on them British Railways . |
| 14 | It it 's sitting in those chairs I was yeah sitting on them , on them sloping chairs |
| 15 | Not on them little boxes . |
| 16 | Not on them little ones , no , you have to have special adaptors to make those little ones go everywhere . |
| 17 | Well er Fred and his wife went several times on them last year |
| 18 | We made up some ground on them last weekend and have to continue to do so . |
| 19 | But I ate myself silly on them last night and made myself feel sick so I 'll never eat them again now . |
| 20 | The Masai were elusive , even when constantly told they had nothing to fear , and consequently the British administration found itself engaged for fifty years in a ceaseless struggle to impose on them some measure of control . |
| 21 | The result is of that is not fortunate that they 've been delayed but that in fact we have as much money to spend on them next year from the capital receipts as we will have spent this year , so in a sense we , we 're not going backwards there either . |
| 22 | Society puts pressure on them both ways . |