Example sentences of "[prep] they [verb] [adv prt] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The horses could n't get inside the church , so the doors were left open for them to look in on the proceedings . |
| 2 | How parents can spend all that money for them to run down on the chest paddling with their hands on the dirty pavement ! |
| 3 | Both of them got out on the restaurant floor , but Pavel carried on down to the entrance lobby . |
| 4 | More of them got in on the industrial act — Sri Lanka was the latest brave new industrializing country , while India finally took off as a major supplier of iron and steel on the global stage . |
| 5 | For a moment Trent thought of letting the whole damn lot of them go up on the reef . |
| 6 | And the Relief Committee and the Board of Works inspector upstairs — four of them go out on the balcony , and there was a silence would have lifted off your hat . |
| 7 | Then some of them sat down on the sand and began to drink . |
| 8 | There had been some hefty wooden icons hanging up on the walls , and , if they had burnt , then there would have been something left of them lying around on the floor . |
| 9 | The floor of his room was like a maze , with tower-blocks of books , whole walls of them set out on the thin carpet and holed linoleum so that only small corridors for him to walk in remained between them . |
| 10 | The solicitors applied by summons to have the claims against them struck out on the ground that on a true construction of sections 6(2) and 61(1) the S.I.B . |
| 11 | I mean we , we said to them ring up on the day |