Example sentences of "[noun] and [verb] they on [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He unzipped the holdall , took out a couple of Boyt shoulder holsters and dropped them on to the table before delving into the holdall again for two handguns carefully wrapped in strips of green cloth . |
| 2 | Coins and pots and pans and weapons and tools and horse tack jangled like a demented musical band , and each time someone fell , the clanging beast would sag , then lift the fallen back to their feet and sweep them on into the courtyard . |
| 3 | She designed a print room based on an eighteenth-century concept , by cutting out black and white prints and their hanging bows and pasting them on to an apricot Regency background . |
| 4 | It 's dragged a few graceful oddities away from comparing navel fluff in their garages and shoved them on to the European circuit . |
| 5 | Pulling the centre-half back left a gap in midfield which needed a link man to pick up passes from defence and lay them on for the forwards . |
| 6 | I turned to the gang and waved them on with my hand . |
| 7 | Spokeswoman Jane McLean said yesterday : ‘ After that we stopped recording the calls and passed them on to the JobCentre at Holywell , which is handling the recruitment . ’ |
| 8 | Spokeswoman Jane McLean said yesterday : ‘ After that we stopped recording the calls and passed them on to the JobCentre at Holywell which is handling the recruitment . ’ |
| 9 | The process of endorsing Notes and passing them on to pay for goods or services from business to business is still quite common . |
| 10 | If you do not want to lose the patterns currently in the knitting machine , you can upload them to DesignaKnit and save them on to disk , ready to be downloaded back to the knitting machine when required . |
| 11 | The Crown claim Butler had collected information about his movement in the town and passed them on to the IRA . |
| 12 | They cut the petticoats into six pieces and put them on to sticks . |
| 13 | Use the template on this page to cut out lots of tiny Trefoils and stick them on to the bookmark . |
| 14 | Perfect pads : save the shoulder pads from your old blouses and dresses and glue them on to coathangers so that newer , delicate clothes do n't tear . |
| 15 | Our prisoners are kept safe in the bilboes you were prescient to despatch , and I would have had this Dulay hanged but that he might in death prove a beacon to this same rabble and draw them on to greater reprisals against us , and we are still but few in number . |
| 16 | And that they , two people , you know somebody every week will collect in all the languages books and take them along er , or the language homework and take them along to their language teacher and the other one will take the history le , homework and take them on to the history teacher , and then they go off to assembly alright ? |
| 17 | The reason for this may well be that the hospital consultant is reluctant to let go medical responsibility for former patients and thrust them on to a local GP , but he is not normally easily available when off duty or working in a clinic many miles away . |
| 18 | For a time she became a pony-dealer , buying horses from tinkers and selling them on to English buyers . |
| 19 | Sweetman took a pair of polarised sunglasses from his shirt pocket and put them on before inspecting me again . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | ‘ I always wanted to work with a squad of young players and bring them on for a few seasons . |
| 22 | The shop-keeper nodded with eventual understanding , cut off a huge bunch of bright green grapes and threw them on to the scales . |
| 23 | Therefore , they will be predisposed to choose applicants from those social classes , thereby reinforcing their examination success and leading them on to greater success than ever . |
| 24 | This strategy has its limitations in that polluters with strong market power could simply pay the charges and pass them on to consumers . |
| 25 | Hawkmoths , which are among the swiftest insect flyers capable of speeds of 50 kph , have reduced their hind wings very considerably in size and latched them on to the long narrow fore-wings with a curved bristle . |
| 26 | He was accused of having , ‘ with counter-revolutionary aims , collected lists of people detained in the disturbances and passed them on to others , thus undermining the law and violating the ( laws of ) secrecy . ’ |
| 27 | The new novel has married the pair and moved them on into the mid-Sixties and from the provinces to London , where Patrick works misgivingly in a fashionable publishing-house . |
| 28 | Alejandro and his son all stop horses with five-inch curbs and send them on with spurs about the same length . |
| 29 | Maurice snatched out a pile and loaded them on to the reeling Edward . |
| 30 | As to the range of fish available , Ken 's policy is to buy in four to six-inch high grade Japanese Koi and grow them on under cover for a year before they go on sale . |