Example sentences of "[verb] they on " in BNC.
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1 | Out of his sack he fished a pair of sticky-rubber knee-pads and proceeded to strap them on with a complicated system of webbing . |
2 | He runs a scrap yard there and erm whenever he gets decent cars in like , he flogs them on . |
3 | erm no I mean it 's , it 's good to see them on they were , they , the programme on , on the fourth of November will be audio described |
4 | ‘ Everyone does , if they 're lucky , if there is anything that turns them on . |
5 | But successive generations of young people have embarked on their sexual experimenting without knowing very much about themselves — their own bodies , what turns them on , how they function sexually — and knowing virtually nothing about their partners . |
6 | Er alt , turns them on and off , yes it did , it does it then |
7 | What turns them on and off ? |
8 | Bring them on ! |
9 | ‘ You bring them on from the time they 're little , and they think they 've got it made , then — wallop . ’ |
10 | ‘ I always wanted to work with a squad of young players and bring them on for a few seasons . |
11 | That 's alright , bring them on . |
12 | The big man has been in a clinic since breaking a leg against Crystal Palace last week and the only way he can join in the Reds rise is by cheering them on in front of his telly . |
13 | The element of playing to the gallery is conserved in the way they portray the fight as a piece of street theatre , with the adults cheering them on from the balconies , while the girls offer silent support , as the boys defend the honour of the white community against the ‘ black invasion ’ . |
14 | So their own minister held a service at the station , and the agent gave them a good dinner cheering them on in Gaelic , at which they wept , and they went on to settle at Moosomin , where they lived happily ever afterwards . |
15 | Albion fresh from promotion are always good at home with a big crowd cheering them on and their fans could have a lot to shout about … |
16 | They were losing and she knew they were going to lose and their last bloke was coming in and she was cheering them on . |
17 | She was cheering them on . |
18 | She had brought things to make their evening meal and she emptied them on to the work-counter : wine , cheese , spinach , onions , bread , the pink-white tines of a rack of lamb , as if all the promise of their future lay in the guarantee of such ordinariness being possible . |
19 | And load them on too . |
20 | Once they had turned the Mount , with the full span of the ice shining before them , the two men gathered pace , at once in harmony and contention , drawing vigour from the presence of the young woman between them , who cried out , not in fear but encouraging them on to greater exertions . |
21 | They went down a narrow lane called Smugglers ' Gully , which led them on to a wild rocky headland . |
22 | The captain of the guard led them on to the scaffold , a scrawny-faced clerk gabbled out the sentence of the court . |
23 | Do you want them on st do you want it on steam ? |
24 | Well , if you do n't want them on , that 's the whole problems of obviously saying , erm , in fact , we do n't , if we do n't want them on a disk at all , we do n't have to have them . |
25 | I flung them on to the bed where she should have been , but was n't . |
26 | Well it 's erm the sort of things they pick them on really is not that |
27 | Pride and egoism drives them on , and a shared stupidity stops us from stopping them . |
28 | They 've never succeeded : sickness , hunger , wanderlust , something drives them on . |
29 | Catherine 's anger was also aroused when a photographer took pictures of her topless on the French Riviera and sold them on to a men 's magazine . |
30 | We helped second-hand car-buyers , too , when we uncovered British School of Motoring 's clever dodge for covering up their cars ' real origins when they sold them on . |