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Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] they on the " in BNC.

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1	One of these papers was a recent statement by the county education committee that no change in the status of the grammar school was contemplated : on that basis , I was able to reassure my anxious colleagues , when I met them on the first day of term , that abrupt change was not imminent .
2	In Hamburg and elsewhere I talked to several former U-boat captains and instead of the brash abrasive characters I had expected , I found them on the whole to be men of sensibility and humour .
3	‘ Sorry , Mrs Scamp , but I found 'em on the floor in the back of the cab . ’
4	Well do you know , out of all the girls who work New Year 's Eve right , I told them on the night , oh I said we 'll get about forty pound for tonight wo n't I , because it 's double time and I was the only one who complained about it when I had my pay .
5	I put them on the chairs , here in front of the fire , to dry nut and the kitchen was like a steam-bath all winter . ’
6	Too quickly , for my mother looked at me as I put them on the table .
7	I got cushions up there so I put them on the top .
8	Unless I put them on the outside wood .
9	I put them on the umm landing window .
10	‘ I noticed them on the launch this morning . ’
11	‘ I mount them on the wall because they are very special , ’ she said .
12	I flash upon my own family ; the way I have to think a moment before deciding who to include in my family , whether to include the step-parents or the siblings on my father 's side whom I would not know should I see them on the street , the hastiness of Mom and Larry on Sunday swirls between galleries and sushi , untapered by excess or sentimentality , busy with books and foreign films and the Sunday supplement of the New York Times , the wisdom of Ivy Leagues and schedules too dense to live by , to wake by , to sleep and breathe by .
13	Should I lay them on the doorstep and vamoose before she responded to the bell ?
14	on on discussions on the basis of what I tell them on the phone .
15	I heard them on the wireless . "
16	I chuck them on the floor and kick at them .
17	I think these 'd probably be better if I did them on the one you suggested for
18	I see you later than , oh where 's the car keys I had them on the .
19	it was fine , I thought right get up and get them bloody curtains washed , I had 'em on the line , but do you think our Mike noticed them , well when he came home from work , because I thought of having to put 'em back up again , I just
20	If I take them on the table they wo n't make so much noise then
21	In the next lesson , I asked him to share his six ways with 1 in front , and I wrote them on the blackboard .
22	and I sat them on the floor
23	I I like writing them writing them on the nodes like that .
24	At least it keeps them from the dangers which await them on the streets .
25	Set the microphone so that it picks up that group and use the resulting recording to set tasks for trainees which focus them on the learner .
26	The historical development of associations concerned with the employment relationship during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries may be explained as a negative response on the part of employers to accommodate the external challenges which confronted them on the basis of three broad sets of factors .
27	Laurie , known to the boxing boys as Lol , believes boxing can give ‘ lads with fire in their belly ’ an ambition which keeps them on the straight and narrow .
28	What is the role of the to which distinguishes them on the level of the sign ?
29	These are known as ‘ Kent peg tapered tiles ’ as they narrow in length , holes being incorporated at the narrow ends to accept wooden pegs which locate them on the roofing battens .
30	When we are too old to force our limbs up the crags and are ready to regale our grandchildren with tales of derring-do it will be the epics which have them on the edge of their seats .