Example sentences of "they on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She married an art dealer , Kenelm , understood to be seriously ill , and conducted daring affairs , one of them on the Metro with her friend Monique 's friend Gianni : |
| 2 | This particular girl , a model , is putting Patrick in his place by going on about cars : ‘ Most of my friends have them on the firm , ’ she said , with the sort of lift of the old proud head that he could hardly believe had not accompanied a limiting judgment on Villiers de l'Isle Adam . ’ |
| 3 | Mum furious that day when , aged seven , I emptied out the contents of her bag and arranged them on the table in descending order of size . |
| 4 | The first course had been awaiting them on the dining-room table . |
| 5 | Out of the corner of my eye I watched him wipe himself with Kleenex tissues and drop them on the floor , indifferent to the smears of blood on them . |
| 6 | ‘ Others take my beers even if they 're warned not to — they sometimes put them on the bar without pump clips . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ In the 1950s and 60s there were superb beers — if you caught them on the right day . |
| 8 | PCBs are so difficult to destroy , that Rechem 's emission-monitoring systems are geared to detecting them on the grounds that if you destroy PCBs you destroy everything . |
| 9 | APT is the last building block in a set of systems — blessed with the contrived name LIFFEforce — which will allow exchange members and their clients fast and competitive access to the markets , enabling them to track and record their positions and settle them on the same day . |
| 10 | Entrepreneurs , by their nature , are relatively thin on the ground — and an ungrateful lot not given to remembering those who helped them on the first , shaky steps on the ladder . |
| 11 | It should out-point them on the rough stuff , too , for the Range Rover is still king of the wild frontiers . |
| 12 | They stood to the side as I entered then the woman showed me to a chair as the man brought two glasses and placed them on the table in front of me , then said very seriously , ‘ This is my wife . |
| 13 | Within a mere three weeks the Smolensk Party authorities also required all uezd executive committees to collate , check , and comment to them on the minutes of every single peasant meeting on mutual aid . |
| 14 | Ought I to restrict supplies to certain retailers only , or release them only on the certificate of a doctor or justice of the peace , or simply rely on those who can afford to pay getting them on the black market ? ’ |
| 15 | So he tried to show them on the piano . |
| 16 | And finally , only a year or so later , turned them out of house and home — put them on the street , as women who failed to be properly grateful to the fathers had been put for centuries . |
| 17 | His flailing tail swept down a third of the stars of heaven and cast them on the earth . |
| 18 | ‘ We had them on the run by then . |
| 19 | Taking the boats out of the water and loading them on the cars is a chore . |
| 20 | If there are 38 of them on the line , 38 go together for ten minutes and then , of course , the line stops . |
| 21 | I chuck them on the floor and kick at them . |
| 22 | I 'm crying a bit as I try and stick the pieces together , but I ca n't do it so I just leave them on the floor and sit back in the chair . |
| 23 | They will meet up with the commanding officers of some of the major units on the ground to brief them on the results of their reconnaissance . |
| 24 | These are known as ‘ Kent peg tapered tiles ’ as they narrow in length , holes being incorporated at the narrow ends to accept wooden pegs which locate them on the roofing battens . |
| 25 | Sister Cooney picked up a pile of books and began to replace them on the shelves . |
| 26 | One detects a certain apathy towards the whole business of synodical government , and parishes find it difficult to fill the vacancies allotted to them on the Deanery Synods . |
| 27 | As the official indictment says , ‘ officers on duty from the Lhasa Public Security Bureau seized them on the spot with the swiftness of a thunderbolt ’ . |
| 28 | The Government can not pretend to be concerned with security at army barracks and then , without regard for the soldiers , put them on the streets of London as easy targets for the terrorists . ’ |
| 29 | The Government can not pretend to be concerned with security at army barracks and then , without regard for the soldiers , put them on the streets of London as easy targets for the terrorists . ’ |
| 30 | Economic pressures on forests are immense , placing them on the cutting-edge of the reconciliation between environment and development . |