Example sentences of "they [adv] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Companies do sometimes give incorrect details or omit them altogether on their company stationery . |
| 2 | I suppose he feels he ca n't look after them properly on his own . ’ |
| 3 | But the mental health commission , a body which monitors standards in mental hospitals , says in a report that at Coney Hill hospital patients were locked in the seclusion rooms for too long because there were n't enough staff to look after them properly on the wards . |
| 4 | Right , if you just want to come out of there and we 'll just have a look at the plot of the residuals , if you plot the residuals the test for serial correlation there well the test for serial correlation , right , and try and determine whether there 's a auto regressive structure to those parameters and I think Steve was talking to you about er auto regressions , so what the computer is doing essentially , it is getting the residuals from the model raised and it 's regressing them right on the residuals in the previous period , right , and it 's testing whether this parameter row , right , is significantly different from zero right , now if this is , if row is significantly different from zero , let's say it 's nought point six , that implies the residuals in T are not independent of the residuals in T minus one . |
| 5 | Nevertheless , all inductivists would claim that in so far as scientific theories can be justified , they are justified by supporting them inductively on the basis of some more-or-less secure basis provided by experience . |
| 6 | He gets up , holding the thin sheets of paper in front of him , perhaps just a little further away from himself than he normally would , and puts them delicately on the desk in front of me . |
| 7 | no here they are , I know I 've seen them somewhere on the window sill |
| 8 | She was unimpressed by both her grandfather 's reputation and his work : she had removed from her bedroom wall a large still-life of gladioli and a small representation of a baby 's head and stacked them carelessly on the landing in order to make room for a poster of Humphrey Bogart . |
| 9 | What they believe in is that everybody out there is out to grab as much as they can for their own private interest and they 're prepared to meet them halfway on that . |
| 10 | If you are using guitar machine heads ( far more easily adjusted than pegs , which also require special tools to fit them accurately ) it is more convenient to modify the shape of the head and fit them only on the left ( if you are right-handed ) in the manner of Fender guitars . |
| 11 | Ought I to restrict supplies to certain retailers only , or release them only on the certificate of a doctor or justice of the peace , or simply rely on those who can afford to pay getting them on the black market ? ’ |
| 12 | Whereas the vertical combs of honey-bees have cells on both sides , the paper-wasp 's horizontal combs have them only on the under-surface . |
| 13 | His fundamental mistake was not only to buy all his planes , but to buy them only on borrowed money . |
| 14 | Now on water you ca n't get them only on eight hundred about eight hundred and ninety . |
| 15 | Not that Cathy Carne was a loner , she wanted — needed human contacts , but she would have them only on her own terms . |
| 16 | And if the head of the English department was n't so ineffectual , he 'd have told them so on Monday . |
| 17 | The more tender-hearted biographers have pictured Vincent as a St Francis , lifting straying caterpillars from the ground and placing them gently on branches , leaving cheese and milk for the mice while he starved on bread and water . |
| 18 | Benny 's hands were smarting and he rubbed them gently on his shirt . |
| 19 | ‘ Certainly the play advocates a continuation of the war , as plays nowadays are required to do , ’ said Deems , folding his hands and placing them gently on the table before him , as if to show that he concealed nothing . |
| 20 | He places them gently on Andy 's face . |
| 21 | If you 've got clothes , your coats and dresses , and fold them over once , and then put them into a bag like that and we put them gently on top of the load , they come to no harm at all . |
| 22 | ‘ I said to Bernie if they were mine I 'd want to take them inside on a night . |
| 23 | I saved up these back pages until I had a complete set and my mother sewed them together on her treadle -operated Singer machine . |
| 24 | However , the evidence of the fireman who was on the footplate of the engine that was hauling the express disproved the allegations of the railway company , for he had seen them together on the train after it had arrived at Birmingham New Street Station around 2.30 when the children had waved at him . |
| 25 | If you closed your eyes you could imagine them together on the promenade , arm-in-arm like they should be , the doctor with a silver-knobbed stick , loving one another in a public place . |
| 26 | Anyone seeing them together on the common outside Oswaldston would have taken them for husband and wife , though Hilary was by nearly three years the younger . |
| 27 | He did n't know what was happening between Gesner and Suzi any more , had n't seen either of them since the Season began , since that dreadful scene at Willi 's party , but he knew he had to submit himself to yet another bout of torture and watch them together on the stage . |
| 28 | They went into the staff-room and grabbed a coffee while they waited for the results , then they studied them together on the lightbox . |
| 29 | So , as villagers sadly began to dig up bluebell and primrose roots from the soon-to-be-flooded little woods of their pleasant countryside and to plant them elsewhere on safer ground , the Anglian Water Board asked Dame Sylvia Crowe , the landscape architect , to take on the challenge of turning the proposed 3,000-acre inland sea , with its 27-mile perimeter , into an ‘ environmental asset ’ . |
| 30 | He tried to wipe them away on the sleeve of the plaid shirt , but it was no good . |