Example sentences of "[conj] they [verb] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | With the help of the dogs , who leapt silently through the snow , George managed to usher them to a barn , where they massed on the sheltered side . |
| 2 | The couple were chauffeured from their homes to the town hall where they put on the replica mayoral chains made specially for the occasion . |
| 3 | With many smiles and good-nights , the four went upstairs and another meeting took place in the newly-painted room , where they sat on the floor , and discussed the new problem posed by Faye and Roberta , who did not like Comrade Andrew 's role in their affairs . |
| 4 | I therefore challenge candidates of all parties to state clearly and publicly where they stand on the chronic and continuous underfunding of a service which is increasingly being asked to undertake more and more duties . |
| 5 | Says , Jay Odell , of the fisheries department : ‘ Normally about 21,000 grey whales migrate from Baja California to their summer feeding grounds in the north Bering Sea , where they forage on the sea bottom , usually in much deeper water , for small crustaceans . ’ |
| 6 | ’ He reached out to touch her fingers where they rested on the table . |
| 7 | The creatures of the open sea , then , live either in the plankton ; or live in the waters beneath and browse upon the plankton — or live upon the browsers ; or they live on the bottom , and wait for the planktonic manna to rain upon them from above ; or they feed on the creatures that feed upon the bottom . |
| 8 | The creatures of the open sea , then , live either in the plankton ; or live in the waters beneath and browse upon the plankton — or live upon the browsers ; or they live on the bottom , and wait for the planktonic manna to rain upon them from above ; or they feed on the creatures that feed upon the bottom . |
| 9 | But although they live on the edge of Wentworth Golf Course , Lady Haslam prefers gardening when at home . |
| 10 | The findings are actually somewhat more encouraging from the Tories ' point of view than they appear on the surface . |
| 11 | This county council has funded them more than social services erm , for , I do n't have the figures in front of me today , but for a long time , erm , this is unlike the overwhelming majority of county councils , who spend more on social services than they do on the police . |
| 12 | As had occurred before , and was to occur again , pacifist agitators had more impact on the reorganization of the party system than they did on the issues of war and peace that they were trying to affect . |
| 13 | There is less time to think as hazards loom quicker than they did on the old boats , and accurate navigation becomes ever more critical . |
| 14 | Will my hon. Friend join me in paying tribute to Mr. Martyn Rands , chairman of Basildon commuters ' club — and to his hard-working committee — who met my hon. Friend this morning and presented him with a petition , signed by 5,000 people in my constituency , complaining about the disgraceful service that they receive on the Fenchurch Street line ? |
| 15 | Hankies , me mam was on about the bogeys that they pull on the , back behind their bikes |
| 16 | It is helpful for them to recognize that if they intend to carry through what they say , they may need to reduce the number of demands that they make on the child . |
| 17 | She says that they banged on the doors , and got them out . |
| 18 | Ursula Block reports that they melted on the way . |
| 19 | My parents once told me that they lived on the Canary Islands for a little while but I do n't think I was born just yet . |
| 20 | Having in mind my own South Thames TEC in south London , does my right hon. and learned Friend agree that the acceptance , success and street credibility of the TECs have been greatly enhanced by the emphasis that they put on the enterprise element of their make-up ? |
| 21 | His tale was verified by another member of the party Hawick 's B international hooker Jim Hay , who recounted that his fellow Teri , Jim Renwick , had been so intent on chasing and tackling the electrifyingly quick Eric Rush that he had failed to notice a helicopter land on the pitch and it was only when they felt the down-draft from the rotor blades that they put on the anchors . |
| 22 | Hostel staff , poorly paid and untrained , were under pressure from the subcommittee , the school and the local community , so that they erred on the side of caution in everything , thus frustrating the pupils . |
| 23 | What can be said about the most recent generation of US television narrative subgenres is that they display on the screen a much higher awareness of the conventions they are operating than is the general rule on UK television , and they are therefore much more inclined towards an ironic or parodic re-scoring of generic regimes . |
| 24 | To that extent they ought to have wide circulation , except that they depend on the kind of painstaking preparation that Knussen had given them — the music sounded taught and nurtured rather than merely rehearsed . |
| 25 | Managers in the companies we studied recognize that they depend on the inputs of those who know . |
| 26 | However , does the Minister realise that the schemes place a great burden on individual residents in a particular area and that they depend on the co-operation of the police ? |
| 27 | The the the in order to get by pupils writing these er rather immature things that they write on the |
| 28 | Er for example the ones that they fitted on the , the vertical boring mills , were round er in nature , bolted through the centre to a tool post and subsequently when they went into action , they were so hard you know , that they could outstrip the existing type of tip tool erm because the , the material itself stood up better to the cutting flow er er rather than the , the tip tool which was inclined to chip . |
| 29 | In his History of the Abbots Bede says that Ecgberht , king of Kent , sent a certain Wigheard to Rome where he wished him to be consecrated archbishop , and only subsequently in the Ecclesiastical History does Bede report that Oswiu and Ecgberht consulted together on what action to take about a successor to Deusdedit and that they agreed on the choice of one of Deusdedit 's clergy , Wigheard , whom they sent to Rome to be consecrated ( HE III , 29 ) . |
| 30 | Accounts of the construction of the self vary , in the degree of stress , for example , that they lay on the period of infancy and early childhood , and on the importance given to sexuality . |