Example sentences of "[verb] their [noun pl] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most descriptive studies in Britain base their classifications on the Registrar-General 's ranking of occupations from I to V , according to their supposed prestige , with a major division between middle-class or white-collar workers ( I , II , and III non-manual ) and working-class or manual workers ( III manual , IV and V ) . |
| 2 | The participants place their fingers on the top of an upturned glass or pointer on castors . |
| 3 | To get the distances correct , have them place their hands on the shoulders of the person in front of them . |
| 4 | To add to the general gothic touch , the now released pigeons fly around depositing their droppings on the dead body . |
| 5 | Amid signs of increasing desperation , Bush appeared to adopt a two-pronged strategy , using his powers as President to take actions calculated to improve his popularity , while his campaign staff increased the negative content of the campaign by intensifying their attacks on the character of Clinton , particularly in regard to his attempts as a student to avoid being drafted to Vietnam . |
| 6 | Even the Nato arms controllers meeting in Vienna , whose job it is to negotiate East-West reductions in conventional armed forces , can only pursue their objectives on the basis of confrontation between their alliance and the Warsaw Pact . |
| 7 | Today you have watched our mandarins banging their foreheads on the flagstones — but not for our emperor ! |
| 8 | In the Wimpy after 2001 we imitated the apes banging their bones on the ground with our knives and forks on the formica table . |
| 9 | As a result , the majority of farmers continued to concentrate their efforts on the production of food for their own families , rather than for the market . |
| 10 | The development tools allow programmers to concentrate their efforts on the finer points of the program without having to worry about compatibility problems . |
| 11 | Although it was not easy in the beginning attracting regular work , the players all had sufficient confidence in the quality of the product , that they decided to concentrate their energies on the ensemble , rather than seek the immediate security of orchestral contracts . |
| 12 | To make them pure for drinking purposes is , perhaps , impossible ; but it may reasonably be hoped that they may become sufficiently so to delight the eye and to repress the pestiferous and sickening exhalations which at present affect the multitudes of our population compelled to pass their lives on the bank of such rivers . |
| 13 | And that is excellent news for Reds manager Frankie Parks who is increasingly worried he wo n't have men fit enough to write their names on the team sheet . |
| 14 | Yeah you only need to write their details on the first page in which they appear . |
| 15 | A hedge is ideal for ducks to nest in — although they usually build their nests on the ground , using leaves and grass , they like them to be well hidden . |
| 16 | Judges sat behind closed doors and took only written evidence , basing their decisions on the records of preliminary investigations conducted by the police . |
| 17 | Collectivist solutions go further than this , basing their arguments on the differences in the nature of consumption and accountability in the public and private sectors . |
| 18 | Traders and craftsmen , who provided goods for the troops and the King 's Court , built their houses on the sloping tail of rock which had been protected from erosion when slowly passing ice sheets had scraped at the valley floor . |
| 19 | It is a decision that has , in principle , to be taken early on , so that the creative group can concentrate their efforts on the right type of ads — though because some creative ideas work better in one medium than another , the initial decision may be left more or less open . |
| 20 | For the next three weeks or so they wean their babies on the frozen sea of the Gulf of St Lawrence . |
| 21 | It would be helpful to the planning committee if Q.T. could let us know their views on the last year 's programme . |
| 22 | ‘ We found their bodies on the street corner . |
| 23 | He and his partner , Gary Armstrong , playing together in a major international for the 25th time , plus a few other Scots , must have booked their places on the forthcoming British Lions tour to New Zealand . |
| 24 | And the possibility , particularly for husbands , of losing a significant part of their pension rights on divorce will focus their minds on the value of those rights . |
| 25 | Over the past 30 years investors in American and British IPOs who sold their shares on the first trading day earned returns of 15% and 12% respectively . |
| 26 | The council 's chief executive , Alan White , warned that without the catalyst of Safer City funding it was unlikely that organisations involved in the partnership would be willing to continue their efforts on the crime fighting front . |
| 27 | Analysts , meanwhile , were not impressed at all , and were downgrading their opinions on the company right , left and centre last week , causing the shares to slip . |
| 28 | problems of identification also arise when portraits are less individualised , as in the case of the immediate successors of the Roman Emperor Augustus , who modelled their portraits on the founder of their dynasty . |
| 29 | Charlie Woods , director of Scottish Enterprise 's Scottish and international operations , said that Scotland 's success in attracting the ninth Europartenariat offered a great opportunity for small and medium-size companies to make real progress in realising their ambitions on the European stage . |
| 30 | It had just been wiped by a sullen black woman in a nylon overall , from whom the sergeant tried in vain to extract a smile , and the police officers sat back to allow it to dry before resting their elbows on the surface . |