Example sentences of "they [verb] on [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Ground floor , they say on account of your chest . |
| 32 | That 's what they say on Food and Drink in |
| 33 | The students , seated in a closed circle , simply talk with one another in the foreign language , record what they say on tape , play it back , write it down , and identify and discuss the component parts . |
| 34 | They dined on lobster and barbecued kebabs , sitting Arab-style , cross-legged on the floor . |
| 35 | Normal relationships , whether they focus on economics , or politics , or law , or religion , are all presumed to have the lifelong irrevocable quality which in our modern Western system applies only to national identity and family membership . |
| 36 | AIthough there are common concerns shared by the two theories , and indeed attempts to draw on both of them , there are also differences in terms of , for instance , the way in which they characterize society , or the part of it they are dealing with , the degree to which they focus on production and technology , whether their focus is on sectors or wider processes , and in relation to evidence ( both in terms of whether their balance is towards description or explanation and in terms of their interpretation of evidence ) . |
| 37 | Because they focus on local-level , small-scale issues , their achievements must by definition be limited to that level , and success , that is the accomplishment of the task , may even mean the disbandment of the movement . |
| 38 | If something bugs them , I want them to tell me before they walk on court . ’ |
| 39 | The final show in the Inspirals ' foray into Finland takes place under clouded skies , on an enormo stage , in front of a field of fully of happily drunk hippy kids who , when they walk on stage , appear to be principally interested in fighting each other , or lying on their backs staring at the clouds . |
| 40 | So you can say from Wednesday till today there 's all coal that was in the bunker plus what they put on top . |
| 41 | an angels that turn bad , just like a lot of mankind turn bad er they put on flesh then for the purpose of marrying the goodlooking daughters of men |
| 42 | They came on board at Beni Suef . ’ |
| 43 | They came on foot , by river steamer and in horse-drawn omnibuses and drays . |
| 44 | They came on foot , in horse-drawn carts , by bicycle and by bus , arriving early in the morning so as to have a full day 's prayer . |
| 45 | This is the one when the robot come to dinner they came on Christmas day . |
| 46 | the only one who worked full time , they came on Christmas Eve with reluctant , because I said look I 'm sorry but I have to work Christmas Eve lunch time , and they said right we 'll be there at five past one , and I finish at one , there were there at five past one , they finally left two days after Christmas because I said I 'm sorry I have to go back to work today . |
| 47 | Yes , it 's erm , they came on stage , I think it would be good for and then they when coming to New Zealand yeah , the whole . |
| 48 | Production from the Obando fields in Gabon [ LASMO 50 per cent ] surpassed 8,000 bopd net to LASMO during 1992 , the highest level achieved since they came on stream in 1986 . |
| 49 | It is felt that traditional keyboard skills are not required by learners before they embark on work-processing . |
| 50 | Before they embark on LMS , it is vital for schools to clarify and articulate their educational philosophy as the basis of their School Development Plan ( see Chapter 2 ) . |
| 51 | One or two stretch the notion of individual guilt so far that they embark on self-mutilation . |
| 52 | they perch on top |
| 53 | The wounded were walking wounded mainly , with bandaged heads and arms in slings , a few of them trying to crack jokes as they trudged on board . |
| 54 | Like the grave-diggers in Hamlet , they speculated on life : ‘ We 've been working on it for 25 years and we still have n't got round . |
| 55 | Nowadays many people condemn big-game hunting , and rightly so , with the wildlife which they watch on television threatened with extinction . |
| 56 | The extreme social and economic difficulties they faced on independence meant that the emergence of recognizably democratic party politics was by no means certain . |
| 57 | The reason why carnivores exist at all is because they arrived on Earth first . |
| 58 | Six minutes later , they arrived on Planet Centram . |
| 59 | How does it show that they arrived on Planet Zog today ? |
| 60 | They arrived on Christmas Eve 1924 , proving that high-quality electrical test recordings existed at the end of 1924 , although it is not known that any of these survive today . |