Example sentences of "[verb] on they [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In an extreme case , someone may act on them for the reason that , or on the principle that , ‘ a little bit of what you fancy does you good ’ . |
| 2 | The heads of governments asked the commission to come back with precise proposals for how this should be done , so that they could act on them at June 's summit in Copenhagen . |
| 3 | They are also very confident people with a secure sense of their own identity , and are able to resist the various pressures brought to bear on them by friends , relatives and society . |
| 4 | Given too free a hand during years when he , like David II earlier , had fallen into English captivity , they resented the disciplines which their returning king was determined to impose on them in the cause of national unification . |
| 5 | And Melanie had spied on them through a keyhole , and would never get closer to them than the keyhole in the door behind which they lived . |
| 6 | ‘ Gloves , cane and collar astonish these artists in shirt-sleeves — they have always looked on them as the insignia of feeble-mindedness … still , it 's great to be in the thick of the dog-fights of great art . ’ |
| 7 | Of course Francis had thought about it as something that was inevitable , and he had plans , but they had never seemed very real and he had looked on them as castles in the air . |
| 8 | The patient may find these activities both boring and frustrating , especially if you are constantly trying to make him concentrate on them as educational tasks . |
| 9 | That has brought a great deal of success , because the French Government are now taking the tough measures that we have been pressing on them for 10 years . |
| 10 | Northwich , Middlewich and Nantwich , as well as Droitwich in Hereford and Worcester , were all known to the Romans for their salt deposits , and several ancient routes across Britain are known as ‘ salt ways ’ because salt was carried on them in trains of packhorses to the far corners of the kingdom . |
| 11 | Typical of the kind of pain Dustin would put himself through , in order to get ‘ inside ’ a character , was the way in which he developed Ratso 's limp by placing stones in one shoe and then walking on them for a day . |
| 12 | These ledgers can be easily subdivided , enabling several clerks to work on them at the same time and it is also easier to withdraw old accounts and insert new ones in their place . |
| 13 | I had to work on them for a long time . |
| 14 | But I expect many others to work on them after me and analyse them in their turn . |
| 15 | Preston 's maternal grandad , his Great-Uncle Eddie and a cousin called Pete had all died from having things dropped on them from cranes down the docks . |
| 16 | The tabloids turned on them for selling the idea of drugs to schoolchildren and having too much sex . |
| 17 | ( a ) Meetings and their conduct Whatever may have been agreed as to the taking of decisions by unanimous or majority vote , as much a matter of good management as of good faith is the need to ensure that all relevant information is given to all the partners before a vote is taken : the requisite majority of partners should not purport to take decisions and act on them behind the backs of the minority unless such has been expressly authorised or the need for immediate action precludes the convening of a partners ' meeting ; and even then there should be no delay before all partners are acquainted with the circumstances and invited to ratify any decision taken in their name . |
| 18 | Standard disc drives can not duplicate the ‘ I can not read that ’ instruction because the unreadable sectors have data written on them at twice the normal speed . |
| 19 | They all run the recently-released version 6 of the company 's Unix SVR4-based DRS/NX operating system , though Unix Systems Labs ' Destiny will appear on them during the first quarter of next year . |
| 20 | It 's difficult , though , because if you talk to adolescent boys in schools they 're violently opposed to women 's liberation , they hate the name women 's liberation , because they 're very defensive perhaps about their own masculinity at that age , and their own masculinity is defined very much in terms of being superior to girls and having mums who wait on them at home . |
| 21 | It 's difficult , though , because if you talk to adolescent boys in schools they are violently opposed to women 's liberation , or they hate the name women 's liberation , because they are very defensive perhaps about their own masculinity at that age , and their own masculinity is defined very much in terms of being superior to girls and having mums who wait on them at home , so it 's difficult to challenge that kind of supposition at that age . |
| 22 | Helmets and unbelted tunics were for the despised ‘ county men ’ , ‘ those sheep-dippers up the road in the sticks ’ whom we continually used to reassert our own status by looking on them as ‘ hicksville country cousins ’ and definitely not ‘ real polises ’ . |
| 23 | Keep your exercises plain and simple , and you have a better chance of enjoying them , rather than looking on them as a burden . |
| 24 | Rome looking on them as a devoted couple . |
| 25 | No-one can have shown Americans round cities such as London , Brighton or Bristol and not been subjected to gasps of horror when they see the depredation wrought on them by ill-sited high buildings and demolished streets . |
| 26 | By the early eighteenth century , the Jacobite supporters of the deposed king had become closely associated with popery , and the English church and state had assumed the role of a full and active member of the international Protestant alliance , a role which radical Protestants at home had been unsuccessfully urging on them throughout the previous century and a half . |
| 27 | In the short term shells may be marked with blobs of paint or even by writing on them with a pencil , but a more permanent mark may be made by cutting a groove into the shell lip with a hacksaw . |
| 28 | ‘ There is enough trouble for pensioners in this day and age without them having to go out and meet people such as you waiting to prey on them like jackals . ’ |
| 29 | Magazines are very seldom reviewed but we depend on them for up to date information . |
| 30 | If he came on them in the darkness and they were … but she would n't … it was perfectly natural … she was eighteen and he … |