Example sentences of "on the [noun] [verb] them [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | Specials share almost all the usual police responsibilities and just a small insignia on the epaulette distinguishes them from their regular colleagues . |
2 | Specials share almost all the usual police responsibilities and just a small insignia on the epaulette distinguishes them from their regular colleagues . |
3 | After designs had been agreed , the work of fitting out the brake vans was undertaken at Wolverton and the vans returned to traffic , pending requirements , the stretcher brackets stored on the vehicle to enable them to be fitted at short notice . |
4 | Political prudence and the dangers of a frontal attack on the Church restrained them to the sale of common lands and the abolition of civil entails , ‘ pulling up by the roots the tree which bears such bitter fruits ’ . |
5 | Pull up the lining to fit the size of the outer curtain and insert the curtain hooks , first into the lining tape then into the standard tape on the curtains to hang them on a conventional track . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | But pushing down on the legs stops them from straightening ; the legs will then have to work five times harder in order to compensate . |
8 | The children were killed when masked gunmen opened fire on the minibus taking them to school . |
9 | One of the students banged his fist loudly on the partition separating them from the driver . |
10 | Instead it plays with the ‘ death of reading ’ , for novels have always relied on the reader to bring them to life . |
11 | Thus in 1802 when a group of spahis called on the Serbs to join them in resisting the dayis very few Serbs responded . |
12 | A further sorting amongst the articles on the tray put them into sets of beads , reels , rods and wheels . |