Example sentences of "they [vb base] [pers pn] on the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was the way they put me on the right track that made me wonder — guiding angels in the Bible have a habit of appearing as two young men . |
| 2 | Ah well they put me on the top rate of pay , which was quite good , thirty five shilling a week . |
| 3 | Clydebank make a practice of discomfiting clubs from the higher division when they meet them on the claustrophobic confines of their own pitch , as last season 's finalists , Airdrie , discovered when they were knocked out after a third-round replay . |
| 4 | The first thing they ask me on the 1st tee is , ‘ Billy , tell me all about your family . ' ’ |
| 5 | and erm , you know , they spend it on the six of them pocket money for sixteen years it all of them have left school now |