Example sentences of "[pers pn] on [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | They were not yet dry but she had no others apart from her best ones , so she pulled them on over the warm , dry woollen stockings into which she had changed upon coming in from the buildings . |
2 | I think both he and Weatherall are outstanding prospects , but need an ‘ old head ’ to bring them on over the next couple of years ( pity about O'Leary ) . |
3 | He urged them on through the mounting waves until they too reached the Rebecca , and he was able to ram one hole , fill it with pitch , then another , and another , round the hull beneath the overhang of the bows , in a rain of missiles , with fire sizzling around him , and his fellow fighters hanging on , hoping for the moment when the timbers would be ablaze . |
4 | Do not pull them on with the nuts , but make sure they fit on their own first , then smear copper anti-seize compound onto the wheel face and centre before fitting . |
5 | The new novel has married the pair and moved them on into the mid-Sixties and from the provinces to London , where Patrick works misgivingly in a fashionable publishing-house . |
6 | Coins and pots and pans and weapons and tools and horse tack jangled like a demented musical band , and each time someone fell , the clanging beast would sag , then lift the fallen back to their feet and sweep them on into the courtyard . |
7 | I think it opens up the child 's awareness to what 's available and what 's coming erm moves them on into the next century really . |
8 | Pulling the centre-half back left a gap in midfield which needed a link man to pick up passes from defence and lay them on for the forwards . |
9 | I keep them on for the programme . |
10 | The centre forward , whom they nicknamed Ossie , wore his sideburns long and his shorts even longer — but at least he kept them on for the duration . |
11 | From the drawings , he sketched various elevations , then cut them out and transferred them on to the blocks of wood to be bandsawn . |
12 | If we move them on to the street , there 'll be more trouble . |
13 | We check the statements , file them and send them on to the band along with our commission invoice . |
14 | Both men stood aside to let a big dark-green Jaguar edge carefully round them on to the forecourt of the house immediately to the left of where the BMW was parked . |
15 | Spraying the aerosol is the best way to get them on to the enemy , but even this is difficult . |
16 | Republics collect taxes but are refusing to pass them on to the central government . |
17 | She threw them on to the table and looked down at Doyle and Tug . |
18 | But their real function is to give people a chance to be famous for five minutes , by saying something that will get them on to the next news broadcast . |
19 | At one end we should have the ancient Palace of Westminster bringing down our historical associations from the times of the early Saxon kings , and at the other we should have the Palace of Whitehall carrying them on to the revolution … |
20 | The bodymaker passed the doors to the finishers , who in turn passed them on to the french polishers ; the doors then moved along to those whose work it was to hang them in position , the operations being so arranged that the polished door was completed just at the point where it was to be hung on the coach . |
21 | The goods always cost more than the mere monetary price ; and it is the object of the system to externalise these costs , by passing them on to the poor or to the impaired resource-base of the earth , and by inviting even the rich to live in collusive dissociation from the costs they , too , must pay . |
22 | As an alternative , radio versions are now available at economic prices ; these allow virtually unrestricted movement to the wearer , the signals being picked up by a special receiver which passes them on to the camcorder via a short cable connection . |
23 | If these two signals differ significantly in level , you will need to balance them up at the mixer before passing them on to the camcorder . |
24 | The Institute is concerned , however , that the duty may lead to over-reporting by auditors or to unnecessary formality in preparation of reports , which could cause delay in passing them on to the Bank . |
25 | He then threw them on to the ground in the tinder-dry hay loft without putting them out properly , it is alleged . |
26 | WORMS stopped play in the Wiltshire tennis championships after heavy rain drove scores of them on to the Marlborough courts . |
27 | It 's dragged a few graceful oddities away from comparing navel fluff in their garages and shoved them on to the European circuit . |
28 | With wrong side of skirt facing you , pick up ‘ stitches ’ from half the top of skirt , putting them on to the needles that are in WP . |
29 | Keep the test papers safe or pass them on to the class teacher ( or the student ) so that weak areas can be diagnosed . |
30 | We just clear them on to the runway and tell them what other traffic we expect . |