Example sentences of "[vb pp] they on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maria had left the identical cuttings anchored by a small china bowl on her coffee-table , but the bowl had been moved , so he must have examined them on arrival . |
| 2 | We had seen and sensed them on our way up , their tentative postures , their unanimity of hesitation . |
| 3 | The old retainer who had received them on their first visit tried to help but Cranston pushed him gently away , saying it was a holiday and besides he was here at Sir Richard 's request to pursue his inquiries privately . |
| 4 | While they were entering their ‘ surplus ’ Hunter and Meteor at Billinghurst , they were taking delivery of Hawker P.1067 WB188 and Meteor IV ( Special ) EE549 from Cosford , having received them on loan from the RAF Museum . |
| 5 | So she had placed them on the mantel with the vase and the dragon plates , and Gerry had promised her two more , next time he docked in Cape Town . |
| 6 | I had joined them on their route marches out of the concentration area at Southampton . |
| 7 | Rachel turned in the cramped space and saw that someone else had joined them on the jig . |
| 8 | Has he consulted them on their right to choose another landlord under the Government 's new Tenants Choice ? |
| 9 | And inwardly she thanked fate that , after all , Jake had stopped them on their flight to London . |
| 10 | The trains in India and in Morocco had impressed them on recital tours as some of the most distinctive they had ever seen . |
| 11 | The Committee had simply patted them on the back like spoilt children and told them , ‘ Now just send your children back to school . ’ |
| 12 | I have therefore grouped them on a broad geological basis : sand , chalk , clay , and the gravels and loams of the coastal plain which probably also enjoys a modest climatic advantage over the rest of the county . |
| 13 | Perched them on his nose . |
| 14 | ‘ It 's only a bunch of flowers , ’ he said , pleased with her response , ‘ although I can guarantee that I have bought them , and have n't picked them on the way over . |
| 15 | FOURTEEN months ago Matchbox announced that repeats of the TV series Thunderbirds had caught them on the hop and they would n't be able to supply any tie-in toys for Christmas 1991 . |
| 16 | But she had earned them on sheer merit . |
| 17 | She confessed that Sally-Anne had written them on old ones Miss Laura had collected on earlier trips , and Miss Laura had posted them for her , to deceive us . |
| 18 | But she had seen them on the newsreel before the big film , creaking and groaning across the land , their great limbless , legless form crushing and grinding all that was in their way . |
| 19 | Members were pleased when constituents said that they had seen them on the box , and only one Member had received complaints that he had not been seen . |
| 20 | She had seen them on their expensive horses , swooping across country , confident in the saddle . |
| 21 | You 've seen them on TV , on the pictures and even in Guitarist . ) |
| 22 | This is the second skirmish in a brief cross-border raid for Edinburgh 's Joyriders ( the previous evening had seen them on the charity gig trail with Mega City Four in Tufnell Park ) , out to bludgeon the capital 's callow youth into line with their handsomely appointed tuff-pop manifesto . |
| 23 | I have known turnstones all my life as common winter visitors to the coastal areas of Britain , and I have seen them on their breeding-grounds in Lapland and in Spitsbergen , but I had n't really expected to find that they were ‘ bird-table ’ visitors in the Seychelles . |
| 24 | I have seen them on Grassholm and in Shetland . |
| 25 | But I 've seen them on the pictures . |
| 26 | But , we 've seen them on this side as well ! |
| 27 | Well I 've seen them on the l lawn so that |
| 28 | But I mean to say you sees these big ladies , well I 've seen them on their |
| 29 | mm , I 've seen them on the front that 's all yeah , mm |
| 30 | Periodically we had lifted and turned them on the banks , where the sun and wind had shrunk and hardened them . |