Example sentences of "he [modal v] [verb] they on the " in BNC.

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1 May 29 , 1975 The defendant solicitors issued a third party notice against the barrister whose advice they had taken , asking that he should indemnify them on the grounds that they had acted on his advice .
2 Now he was n't held down , he could unleash them on the world .
3 The smaller bits we 'd look at for a time and then he 'd throw them on the fire .
4 And he 'd clip them on the clip them on the rope and take 'em to the pit bottom .
5 Then he 'd , he used to try them on the hairs on his arm and if that cut them off that suited him you see
6 He still treated Edward coolly , stating with conviction that he had his orders direct from London and saw no need to go over them in detail , and no possibility that he would modify them on the say-so of a junior officer he did not know .
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