Example sentences of "on they [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even worse , you would tell me about new poems you had started to write , and it was like a dagger in my heart when you described working on them without my help — though the real reason you had come back to see me was to labour over them with me , adding my suggestions and excisions in the margins in your minuscule script . |
| 2 | The sound of it was buried by the thunder of the surf ahead and the white spume line was on them without warning . |
| 3 | In a letter of 1955 Tolkien had rather laughed at the idea that Willow-man and the wights were agents of the Dark Lord : ‘ Can not people imagine things hostile to men and hobbits who prey on them without being in league with the Devil ! ’ |
| 4 | If the purpose of this part of the chapter is to provide a platform for the proposition that , to use the Report 's own words , management generally should ‘ involve employees in decision-making , rather than impose decisions on them without consultation ’ , then it is as persuasive as is any declaration in favour of obvious good . |
| 5 | Whereby the task of the local planning authority , and the onus is on them without the initial negative presumption , the task before the local planning authority in refusing permission is made that much more difficult . |
| 6 | It might be too much of a shock if we burst in on them without any warning . ’ |
| 7 | She liked putting things back in their exactly proper places , thus leading to the postponed satisfaction of finding them again , laying a hand on them without thought . |
| 8 | Helmets and unbelted tunics were for the despised ‘ county men ’ , ‘ those sheep-dippers up the road in the sticks ’ whom we continually used to reassert our own status by looking on them as ‘ hicksville country cousins ’ and definitely not ‘ real polises ’ . |
| 9 | He must learn to delegate , encouraging those responsible to him by placing responsibility and authority on them as part of their career education . |
| 10 | ‘ Gloves , cane and collar astonish these artists in shirt-sleeves — they have always looked on them as the insignia of feeble-mindedness … still , it 's great to be in the thick of the dog-fights of great art . ’ |
| 11 | The patient may find these activities both boring and frustrating , especially if you are constantly trying to make him concentrate on them as educational tasks . |
| 12 | This is a long way from Dicey 's reliance on them as the guardians of our rights . |
| 13 | Many advice workers are unaware that they have had a democratic part in the policy decisions that have adopted these training requirements and some even see these demands on them as a personal affront . |
| 14 | The great , distinguished people of the world do not know that these beggars can in the pride of their souls , look down on them as the unfortunate ones , who are left on the shore for their worldly uses , but whose life ever misses the touch of the lover 's arms . ’ |
| 15 | From the commencement of this Act it shall be the duty of the Secretary of State to superintend , and promote the improvement of , the public library service provided by local authorities in England and Wales , and to secure the proper discharge by local authorities of the functions in relation to libraries conferred on them as library authorities by or under this Act . |
| 16 | How come the Europeans accept musicians who 've been around for a while , but we British just pour scorn on them as has-beens ? |
| 17 | So there was bad feeling from the start : the tourists resentful of the Swedes , who looked down on them as a bunch of grubby anarchists . |
| 18 | Keep your exercises plain and simple , and you have a better chance of enjoying them , rather than looking on them as a burden . |
| 19 | Also , in Germany firms such as Siemens originally joined employers ' associations yet never fully relied on them as a collective means of defending managerial prerogatives and curtailing union activities in the workplace . |
| 20 | Eileen O'Brien , IDC 's director of terminal services , says the surge in PC X server sales was n't forecast to happen until 1994 , attributing the rise to people who use X technology buying PCs and running X server software on them as a cheap alternative to X terminals and the improving quality of the software . |
| 21 | With work plentiful , the women 's influence was " not … much felt … but with the start of depression , more attention was focused on them as a threat to the employment of journeymen " By 1879 , the STC reported that while " the influx of females " was " not unbearably felt " while trade was good , " now the necessity on purely philanthropic grounds of course , of keeping the ladies supplied with copy " , had led to " dispensing with the services of a large number of journeymen " . |
| 22 | Rome looking on them as a devoted couple . |
| 23 | ‘ We are , in fact , ’ continued her husband , who took no offence at her interruptions , indeed , in these foreign circumstances , counted on them as if his sentences were much improved for being broken into , ‘ building a property here — ‘ |
| 24 | They treat such dissertations in an entirely different way from Ph D theses , generally appearing to put a lower value on them as contributions to the science . |
| 25 | Of course Francis had thought about it as something that was inevitable , and he had plans , but they had never seemed very real and he had looked on them as castles in the air . |
| 26 | But in the real world , where most of us enjoy our horses and look on them as part of the family , pony power can really score . |
| 27 | The Americans must have felt as if he was taking revenge on them for what had happened , but they had the final laugh since most of Rank 's films were n't very good . |
| 28 | In an extreme case , someone may act on them for the reason that , or on the principle that , ‘ a little bit of what you fancy does you good ’ . |
| 29 | With almost all the farms having stock on them for 365 days , and with wives restricted in the heavy work they could do , most men had quite a bit to do when they returned from work . |
| 30 | The more frequently graded tests are used , the better will be the understanding of those who are to rely on them for the selection of candidates . |