Example sentences of "they on " in BNC.
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| 1 | She married an art dealer , Kenelm , understood to be seriously ill , and conducted daring affairs , one of them on the Metro with her friend Monique 's friend Gianni : |
| 2 | This particular girl , a model , is putting Patrick in his place by going on about cars : ‘ Most of my friends have them on the firm , ’ she said , with the sort of lift of the old proud head that he could hardly believe had not accompanied a limiting judgment on Villiers de l'Isle Adam . ’ |
| 3 | We had next to none when I was at drama school and young actors need to know more about what will be expected of them on film sets and television studios . |
| 4 | Mum furious that day when , aged seven , I emptied out the contents of her bag and arranged them on the table in descending order of size . |
| 5 | The first course had been awaiting them on the dining-room table . |
| 6 | Place them on a sandy layer over seed compost in trays , adding more sand to cover all but the tips . |
| 7 | Turn them on their side and try not to leave them unattended in case they inhale vomit |
| 8 | And Iain — and Alastair , of course , and your father , if he will come so far. , ‘ I will come so far , ’ Sandy McGlashan proclaimed from six rungs up the ladder , ‘ and I willing them a song of William Ross 's to send them on their away . |
| 9 | He could sluice himself , shuddering , take off his clothes and scrub them on a stone kerb , then hang them one by one out of the window . |
| 10 | ( Hartman has shown that the average person has one or less nightmares a year ; and only one person in 500 has them on a weekly basis . ) |
| 11 | Out of the corner of my eye I watched him wipe himself with Kleenex tissues and drop them on the floor , indifferent to the smears of blood on them . |
| 12 | He had n't slept in a bed like that before , yet there were all those advertisements for them on television , and they were on display in shop windows and in almost all the big stores in London so that I 'd imagined them in all the houses I could see from the bus . |
| 13 | I do n't know any of the Beatles songs and the girls sing them on top of their desks . |
| 14 | Refer to the available photographs when reading the exercise description , and practise them on their own first before attempting a whole session . |
| 15 | The whole of Great Britain was divided between them on a strictly geographical basis , and — subject to the general supervision of the British Railways Board and its chief officers in London — each region was completely responsible for the planning , working , and selling of all rail services in its area ( except in the seven provincial centres where PTEs had been established ) . |
| 16 | ‘ Others take my beers even if they 're warned not to — they sometimes put them on the bar without pump clips . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ In the 1950s and 60s there were superb beers — if you caught them on the right day . |
| 18 | Her substantial and brilliant book A Rhetoric of the Unreal uses the work of French intellectual stars in a familiar and matter-of-fact way , without any of the bedazzlement that surrounds them on this side of the Channel . |
| 19 | PCBs are so difficult to destroy , that Rechem 's emission-monitoring systems are geared to detecting them on the grounds that if you destroy PCBs you destroy everything . |
| 20 | Pearce v Foster indicated why it was that if the original affidavit or a copy made by the employee had been sent to the solicitors , that would not have been privileged from disclosure by the first and second defendants , although sent to the solicitors for the purpose of advising them on their position against the employee . |
| 21 | In The Groove , who runs at Phoenix Park on Saturday , has not achieved nearly as much as Dead Certain , but Elsworth rates them on a par . |
| 22 | Before the change , they were given photographs of republicans to take with them on patrols . |
| 23 | APT is the last building block in a set of systems — blessed with the contrived name LIFFEforce — which will allow exchange members and their clients fast and competitive access to the markets , enabling them to track and record their positions and settle them on the same day . |
| 24 | Entrepreneurs , by their nature , are relatively thin on the ground — and an ungrateful lot not given to remembering those who helped them on the first , shaky steps on the ladder . |
| 25 | But Lord Justice MacDermott did not impose any conditions when he released them on their own bail of £100 . |
| 26 | To quote : It is the distinguishing characteristic of a healthy higher education that , even where it is concerned with practical techniques , it imparts them on a plane of generality that makes possible their application to many problems . |
| 27 | He said he could not serve on that sub-committeee ( consisting of Brian Close , Bob Appleyard , Phil Sharpe , Bryan Stott , Tony Woodhouse ) ‘ when I do not see eye to eye with them on any subject ’ . |
| 28 | It should out-point them on the rough stuff , too , for the Range Rover is still king of the wild frontiers . |
| 29 | The Football Association was also preoccupied with disciplinary matters yesterday , fining Peter Reid £1,000 and suspending the Queen 's Park Rangers midfielder for two matches , banning Arsenal 's Gus Caesar for three and summoning Wimbledon 's manager , Bobby Gould , and Ray Wallace of Southampton , to appear before them on Thursday to answer unrelated charges of bringing the game into disrepute . |
| 30 | The busy periods for the neighbourhood unit reflect those of all policing — Thursdays to Saturdays — and accompanying them on beat duty on these days further illustrates the range of duties which comprise neighbourhood policing and some of the factors which structure it . |