Example sentences of "they [verb] [pron] [adv prt] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And Steve obediently went off , taking with him a jar of Marmite in a garden trowel as a substitute for coal in a shovel , and he stood out there on the front porch in the cold listening to the silence and looking at the stars , waiting for them to let him in on the last stroke of Big Ben on the radio : a faint , feeble echo of some once meaningful ritual , though what it had meant or now could mean nobody there knew or had ever known . |
| 2 | Got them wetting themselves up on the clouds , I daresay … |
| 3 | He did not put up any resistance when they flung him down on the rainswept slabs , and tied his ankles with a thick cord . |
| 4 | I mean I do n't , I do n't know whether say they flung them out on the street is the right thing , cos I , I , I mean there 's all these places like Mencap and there 's a big one in Wellingborough |
| 5 | It 's alright when they bring it up on the screen and then tell you . |
| 6 | Then they laid her back on the straw mattress and covered her with a sheet . |
| 7 | ‘ They let me in on the secret quite early — then people started joking about it . |
| 8 | So can we just develop that one says that in our own department they put it up on the wall so people complete it themselves . |
| 9 | They threw themselves down on the street or took shelter behind cars and in doorways . |
| 10 | They set it down on the floor in the middle of the room , as the T'ang had instructed them earlier , then backed away , heads lowered . |
| 11 | Anyway , I do know they hung Him up on the cross so it did n't do Him a lot of good . |
| 12 | they roll it out on the dance floor upstairs |
| 13 | If the parent feels they know a system that they have heard or read is successful , and if they try it out on the child and the child obviously enjoys it , if it becomes part of a game , then I ca n't see any harm in it , but I think the parent has to be scrupulously honest as to whether the child is enjoying it . |
| 14 | If the parent feels they know a system that they have heard or read is successful , and if they try it out on the child and the child obviously enjoys it , if it becomes part of a game , then I ca n't see any harm in it , but I think the parent has to be scrupulously honest as to whether the child is enjoying it . |
| 15 | Blood-red were his spurs i " the golden noon ; wine-red was his velvet coat ; When they shot him down on the highway , |
| 16 | Blood , blood red were his spurs , moon , rhymed red with his velvet coat , when they shot him down on the highway , down like a dog on the highway , and he lay in his blood on the highway , with a bunch of lace at his throat . |
| 17 | And as there is n't an Inquisition any more , they take it out on the horses . |
| 18 | When anything like this happens in Waldron City everybody starts shouting for action , and as they have n't much idea just what kind of action they expect they take it out on the administration , and that means Wilson . |
| 19 | He says they picked it up on the radar and had to take evasive action . |