Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] they on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In short , Labour and the Liberal Democrats will have the argument won for them on the ground — and as long as they locate their policies in terms of wealth creation , rather than punitive redistribution , the current election election result has given them a platform from which effectively to challenge for power next time round . |
| 2 | It beat about them on the wind as men shook their fists and shouted , faces shining . |
| 3 | ‘ I can leaf through them on the train , and they might give me something to go on . ’ |
| 4 | That makes me a bit peeved , you know : we can serve them , but not mingle with them on the other side . |
| 5 | Once a month we reported to them on the editorial , marketing and financial developments of the magazine . |
| 6 | This is the means by which LCH becomes the exclusive counterparty to both seller and buyer in respect of a contract made between them on the market . |
| 7 | This is a choice between two types of reading , in that one can choose between them on the basis of whether the novel 's contradictions are to be articulated and sustained in the act of reading ( " rhetorically aware " ) or suppressed by the reading ( " aesthetically responsive " ) . |
| 8 | The easiest format for the script is one in which the shot details are written down on one side of the page , while the corresponding words of commentary are written opposite them on the other side . |
| 9 | And it seemed to them that there came against them on the part of the Christians full seventy thousand knights , all as white as snow : . |
| 10 | I mean you get Sweet Fanny Adams done with them on the run up to Christmas anyway , E.l.S . |
| 11 | I was with the South African team throughout their travels in Australia and New Zealand and found them an exceptionally nice group ; agonized with them on the eve of the referendum on reforms back in South Africa when there were last-minute scare reports of a major swing to the right wing ; rejoiced with them when the vote when 68% for sanity , a far greater margin than any of us had dared hope for ; and generally enjoyed with them their victories and their considerable achievement in reaching the semi-final stage . |
| 12 | The occupants of this very undesirable residence with no mod. cons. were gobbling their way through two chicks a day each , which we continued to feed to them on the ledge , right near their box , every morning and late afternoon . |
| 13 | Just the same as you can accept the fact that somebody says to you that I can not really afford your windows , right , just the same as when you first speak to them on the phone , you can say oh sorry , sorry to bother you and put the phone down because it said you |
| 14 | They were , indeed , a sorry and sadly bedraggled lot , so covered in diesel and smoke that it was quite impossible to discriminate among them on the basis of age , sex or nationality . |
| 15 | A female courts one or more males and then goes round laying eggs in nests prepared by them on the ground . |
| 16 | Actual guides were waiting for them on the Scots side , from the Graham tower , producing a grim smile from Douglas , for one of his principal headaches as Keeper of Liddesdale was apt to be the inroads and cross-border raiding of these same Grahams , Kirkandrews prominent . |
| 17 | Hurley was waiting for them on the tarmac near the terminal in his big blue BMW 520i . |
| 18 | ‘ Mind you look after them on the journey and buy them sweets and comic books for the train . ’ |
| 19 | They crossed the road to face the oncoming traffic and had just passed a 40 mph speed limit sign when he looked over his shoulder and saw a car heading towards them on the wrong side of the road . |
| 20 | Its appropriateness for the Foreign Office area was on grounds of association and sentiment , rather than visual harmony , as on one side there were buildings of ‘ predominating importance ’ , and no local association to conflict with them on the other side . |
| 21 | This clause relies upon the ticket cases discussed above , ( see particularly Parker v South Eastern Railway , ante ) If such clauses are to stand it is vital that attention be drawn to them on the face of the order , and wording for this purpose is also provided at the commencement of Precedent 2 . |
| 22 | The rare gases take very little part in life 's processes ; and we need not discuss water vapour at too great length , even though many desert animals and plants , and some epiphytes ( plants that grow on the surface of other plants ) derive much or most of their water from water that floats to them on the air . |
| 23 | ‘ I was hoping to look at them on the plane , but they were at the bottom of the pile and I never got around to it . ’ |
| 24 | When Rodie heard of what happened , she went up to Sam 's room and comforted him enough to bring him downstairs and sit with them on the terrace . |
| 25 | Their status will be reduced to that of assembly-line workers , required to bolt their prescribed parts on to the pupils that pass before them on the conveyor belt . |
| 26 | He walked beside them on the pavement , three abreast , so that pedestrians coming towards them had to step out into the street . |
| 27 | One detects a certain apathy towards the whole business of synodical government , and parishes find it difficult to fill the vacancies allotted to them on the Deanery Synods . |
| 28 | It is also easier to assume that you have someone 's undivided attention when you talk to them on the ‘ phone . |
| 29 | I look back now and think we are actually still doing that , not in the military aspect , in civvy street , we 've got people , real nice people , you talk to them on the street and you get them at the kill and the hackles go up , you can see the adrenalin pumping round their body , you can see the kind of excitement in their eyes and you can see the terrier men grabbing by the the scruff of the neck , bleeding and then throwing . |
| 30 | With two exceptions , all universities receive central government funding that is allocated among them on the basis of advice by the Universities Funding Council ( UFC ) rather than by the direct decision of the DES . |