Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] they on the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A car passed them on the single track road , heading north ; they stood aside to let it pass , waving at the single occupant when he waved at them . |
| 2 | Should they attempt to influence the bishops , Archbishop Felici warned them on the first day of the new session , they would lose their privileges , a threat that caused considerable resentment as much among the fathers as among their advisers . |
| 3 | Their worthlessness is discovered only when the duped client attempts to sell them on the legitimate market . |
| 4 | I used to wear jeans and jackets and shirts but my parents burned them on the same day my dad beat me up , and after that I had to wear saris . |
| 5 | The main street of the village faced them on the other side of the Westport road . |
| 6 | You connect them and they have arrangement with funeral directors to get them on the cheap . |
| 7 | Manchester United wait on Bryan Robson 's decision on his fitness for the Rumbelows Cup Final against Nottingham Forest today , and hope to use the match to launch them on the final leg of their title procession . |
| 8 | Certainly , salmon seem to use smell to guide them on the last stage of their journey . |
| 9 | When he spied his guests , he jumped to his feet and called a greeting , straightening the chairs and holding them one after the other to steady them on the uneven gravel while they sat down . |
| 10 | , ‘ Other Cattle ’ market manager , has just completed a national roadshow around all the sales teams to brief them on the new range . |
| 11 | Treatment is refused on the basis that it 's a better use of resources to spend them on the young . |
| 12 | For instance , yesterday he saw a funeral in a barge , fascinating — six women wrapped in coats in the boat , which the men were dragging along the canal through the heath , and the clergyman in his three-cornered hat and his breeches trailing them on the other side . |
| 13 | Their phone call came to my home in Hampstead inviting me to come to Toronto to meet them on the following Sunday . |
| 14 | Mr Jim Woolsey , a member of Scowcroft commission and one of the Democrats ' leading missile experts , says it makes much more sense to put them on the vast military bases of Nevada and California , where they could be continually on the move . |
| 15 | Putting them up in the wires and other men putting them on the hot plates to fire . |
| 16 | A van passed them on the other carriageway . |
| 17 | A health clinic has stepped in to help patients who ca n't find a dentist to treat them on the National Health Service . |
| 18 | A Country Diary : OXFORDSHIRE : On the first morning of this month , whilst watching the usual passage of gulls to the local refuse-dump , I spotted a flock of waders , estimated at between 300 and 400 , much higher up and heading due south , and , a matter of seconds later , a similar party followed them on the same course , and I was able to identify them as Golden Plover . |
| 19 | PFR restart prompted the visit of Dr Brian Eyre , Deputy Chairman on Friday , 5th February , to meet Reactor Services employees congratulating them on the outstanding job of returning PFR to power . |