Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And forced as she was by circumstances to bring her own dirty and vicious brood to work with her , she took a great pleasure in letting them loose on the two youngest Milligans , deliberately ignoring their torments and teases . |
| 2 | What good is an educational system which fools youngsters into thinking they are much cleverer than they really are and lets them loose on the working world ( not that there 's much work there ) with worthless qualifications ? |
| 3 | The fact that my slimmers felt so much healthier encouraged them to continue on the diet while they were losing weight and it became clear that they had no intention of falling back in to their old habits . |
| 4 | And I 've nothing to report on the buses or trains . |
| 5 | But some , such as the Portuguese man-of-war ( Physalia ) and the velella , have sacs full of gas , which enable them to float on the surface , trailing their poisonous tentacles to catch fish that come to browse in the surface water . |
| 6 | As he wrote years later in his long unpublished memoirs , ‘ hazard or Providence made me knock on the door of the Hôtel Terminus of the Gare du Nord . ’ |
| 7 | Everyone drives on the left , the traffic lights are red , green and amber and people still wait until the lights turn to green before signalling that they 're turning right , leaving you stuck behind them . |
| 8 | He did not bother to look up when Corbett and Ranulf were ushered in but made a gesture for them to sit on the bench alongside the table while he continued noisily with his meal . |
| 9 | ‘ There were 17 players in the team and everyone got on the pitch at some point during the game , ’ he added . |
| 10 | They 're telling me to go on the stage and act , but I ca n't do it , it 's the one thing Mum and Dad are dead set against . ’ |
| 11 | Nobody told me to become a stand-up comedian and nobody told me to go on the fucking telly . ’ |
| 12 | The idea was for me to go on the high-wire sixty feet above ground — on the shoulders of a Czechoslovakian circus performer . |
| 13 | It 's why Uncle Vernon wanted me to go on the stage . ’ |
| 14 | He handed me a toffee , climbed into his car , beckoned me to sit on the other front seat for a few minutes , and removed the celluloid sidescreen to give us more fresh air . |
| 15 | But even if we did have some such reason — even if we thought it slightly more natural for right-handed people , who form the majority , to drive on the right — our reasons for wanting everyone to drive on the same side would still be much stronger . |
| 16 | but er , a lot of them got on the twelve six , you goes the twelve thirty one any way we waved to her when she got on it the coach you see was full at Bart Green , you got , at Redditch |
| 17 | The crossbow , most useful in defence when the crossbowman , who needed protection for the time required to wind up his weapon , could hide himself behind a wall , was an elitist weapon , most effective in the hands of Gascons , who fought in Wales for Edward I , and of Genoese , a large contingent of whom fought on the French side at Crécy . |
| 18 | Nothing turns on the statutory definition of those words : it is sufficient to note that from 1988 onwards , governors have been bound to admit a minimum specified number of applicants . |
| 19 | Nothing turns on the procedure adopted in this case and it suffices to say that when , on 8 April 1992 , the matter came before Mr. Simon Goldblatt Q.C. , sitting as a deputy High Court judge , the application for an order under the Act of 1975 was made by those who are the defendants in the United States action and it was opposed by the Treasury Solicitor , although purists might perhaps have expected that any opposition would have been made by or on behalf of the Attorney-General , the objection being one taken on behalf of the Crown . |
| 20 | Nothing turns on the precise figures . |
| 21 | A witness says she saw them knock on the door . ’ |
| 22 | But then , most of them relied on the head men , we used to tell them you see , to keep their mouth shut . |
| 23 | Obviously , the volume of data by making notes and by taperecording that I acquired made it sensible for me to concentrate on the one school rather than the other . |
| 24 | The manager would have had them all in at 8 a.m. , forcing them to try on the latest zipper tops over their Iron Maiden T-shirts , and making them practise slouching around the sales floor trying to look cool in clothes designed to save lives in sub-zero temperatures . |
| 25 | You see , Great-Aunt Jane was a skilled dressmaker and made clothes for quite a number of young ladies in Baldersdale , and it was usual for them to try on the new clothes and have the final fittings in the kitchen . |
| 26 | However , I only put a few dozen sheets of paper through the machine , and two of them caught on the wire loop , which creased the paper and caused ink smudges where the machine was still printing . |
| 27 | Billeting allocation was frequently chaotic : host families could be hostile ; children might be selected according to their good looks and manners ; in rural areas , farmers often gleefully snapped up the strongest boys and set them to work on the land . |
| 28 | We are currently in discussion with the TECs about their budget and I do not think that it would be appropriate for me to comment on the particular circumstances of my hon. Friend 's local TEC . |
| 29 | Unfortunately , in the absence of all the facts , it is not possible for me to comment on the individual case , nor would I wish to do so in a public forum . |
| 30 | When we hear them bellow on the |