Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] they [verb] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hostel staff , poorly paid and untrained , were under pressure from the subcommittee , the school and the local community , so that they erred on the side of caution in everything , thus frustrating the pupils . |
| 2 | So it 's basically if they finish on the level points goal difference shall determine the final positions followed by the highest number of goals scored and then by the highest number of goals scored away from home . |
| 3 | Leaks can have very serious consequences in terms of the damage they cause to your home — especially if they occur on the central heating system . |
| 4 | It was n't long before they landed on the Moon . |
| 5 | The book is based on the year that Mackay spent in London in 1887–1888 and describes events of that Jubilee Year , especially as they touched on the lives of the socialist and anarchist German exiles there . |
| 6 | This suggests that the foreign exchange markets are now more sensitive to actual and prospective interest rate developments , especially as they impact on the key reserve currencies . |
| 7 | Look out too for Chardonnays from elsewhere as they come on the market — for instance from Chile . |
| 8 | Tucked in battle-dress pocket , gas-mask holder or factory overall , they created a link between the civilian and military worlds , and in the years of rationed poetry and imaginative confinement , it is no surprise that they sold out as soon as they appeared on the bookstalls . ’ |
| 9 | It was estimated that families in Easthall were paying £1 million between them each year heating the sky above Glasgow because as soon as they turned on the heat , it went straight out their windows and walls . |
| 10 | ‘ Partly because they appear on the individual pages - and partly because , if I do n't acknowledge authorship in some way or other , I shall be inundated with enquiries . |
| 11 | Most of the lakes in the park dry up since they rely on the north-east monsoon . |
| 12 | Er in the morning he would be in before any of them , sort of thing , getting a fire lit getting the rivets heat up before they come on the job and ah the the quicker he could the the rivets heat up and passed on to the the squad , then okay the more they could put in so , if he were a good rivet boy you could maybe get a good wage , but again that was up to the squad up to the riveter . |
| 13 | ‘ They kept the fighting till later when they sat on the management-union joint negotiation committee . |
| 14 | They remembered this two hours later as they stood on the meadow in front of the big house at Fortingall , waiting for a crowd to gather . |
| 15 | People are still paying off the debt they ran up when they borrowed on the back of roaring house prices in the eighties . |
| 16 | To gain access for repairing the brickwork , treating timber or painting , simple unhook the trellis , gently bending the plants back until they lie on the ground . |
| 17 | The aims of these two movements , in so far as they touched on the rites of death , were sharply dissimilar : the Evangelicals aimed further to sanctify death as the gateway to immortality ; the Benthamites wished to demystify death in order to concentrate on the material means of increasing human happiness on earth . |
| 18 | Over the past few years , part of the Left in Britain has moved into a more considered view as to the limits of elements of the British constitution , at the same time as it has become increasingly alive to the merits of elements of that same constitution — especially in so far as they bear on the issues of democracy , the sovereignty of Parliament and the people , and civil liberties . |
| 19 | They rarely study natural events , and only in so far as they impinge on the human world . |
| 20 | Most people naively imagine they will stop immediately when they jam on the brakes . |
| 21 | You never saw such a frenzy as her frantic rush to dress herself , me pulling outfits from the wardrobe , she rejecting them as fast as they landed on the bed , trying on and discarding until she stood there in a stew of irritation and indecision in nothing but bra and panties . |
| 22 | In a frank interview with the Mail on Sunday , Becky Blandford said that the Duke had called her a ’ filthy little scrubber ’ after she posed in lingerie for Tatler magazine … and complained that she and Jamie had not once been invited to dinner at the Palace even though they live on the estate . |
| 23 | The idea is to shoot the balloons across so they burst on the stalactites and drop their water into the bowl below . |
| 24 | There is less time to think as hazards loom quicker than they did on the old boats , and accurate navigation becomes ever more critical . |
| 25 | and you all know the register is closed before Christmas , after February we close , the register will be closed at the end of February , no more new members then unless they live on the estate , we have to do that for the Christmas party , okay ? |
| 26 | The f I often find that really the first year it was more fun and er then when they started on the plays and that it got more serious and |
| 27 | What else if I , I have to go and relieve er if I want er to only work down the cabin and it come to meal times cos we carried on dredging from six in the morning we do al all the winters round cos they eat on the dredger they used to eat three winches four winches on the dredger cos they 'd heave the dredger across the river and back again , wo when they come to meal times I used to have to go on and relieve the man what was driving that winch and I used t cos the er er chins coming round the barrel of the winch they used to override and I used to have a handle to knock them clear . |
| 28 | I therefore challenge candidates of all parties to state clearly and publicly where they stand on the chronic and continuous underfunding of a service which is increasingly being asked to undertake more and more duties . |
| 29 | Certainly when they appear on the air using exotic callsigns Dxpeditions enable other , less adventurous , amateurs to share in their activities and that is perhaps one of the significant features of the hobby . |