Example sentences of "be [verb] them on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both sides of the House could and should support most of its provisions , but where improvements are necessary we shall be pressing them on the Minister , and I hope that we shall receive as fair a hearing from him as I have tried to give his Bill this afternoon . |
| 2 | Given the shortage of good creative talent , this is not that unusual , and if you find that your agency is using freelances , your immediate reaction should not be to fire them on the spot : give them credit for both knowing their own limitations and for buying good work from outside , always assuming that it is good ; but press them to get a permanent team working on your account soon — it is not in your interest to lose continuity of creative work on your account . ) |
| 3 | And normally they wo n't be as easy as this , so you probably will be doing them on the calculator , so to do this you just do , erm one take away whatever the per centage is . |
| 4 | Well , he said , I 'm putting them on the train and they 'll be in Valley on the seven o'clock train for you On Friday night this was . |
| 5 | The first course had been awaiting them on the dining-room table . |
| 6 | Chubb has sold 47.5m Sun shares to brokers S G Warburg , Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs who are placing them on the market . |
| 7 | At the front , though , they had taken them through the gate and were playing them on the windows of Hilda Machin 's sitting-room . |
| 8 | She sees natural sex differences as providing the basis for a critique of certain philosophical conceptions which exclude women , and in that way is enlisting them on the side of feminism . |
| 9 | We must make it clear to students that they can appeal against their rent to a tribunal so that the tribunal can decide whether the landlord is overcharging them on the council tax element . |
| 10 | The only thing to watch out for is dropping them on the pavement — because they shatter ! ’ |
| 11 | He 's putting them on the side , like , I 'm asleep in bed , he goes this one 's for you . |
| 12 | Yes , when they was fitting them on the H M S Gothic they sent , they Birkenhead and I asked if they , so I stopped work , all Saturday and this , this er big er were it ? |
| 13 | Tommy , who was accompanying them on the mouth-organ , noticed that Charlie could n't take his eyes off Rose the barmaid who , although on the wrong side of thirty , never stopped flirting with the young recruits . |
| 14 | The aim was to put them on the spot — or at least to impress the Inspector with your knowledge and concern . |
| 15 | They were in costumes that , in spite of their crumpled shabbiness , recalled the garb of Count Arnheim in the opera of ‘ The Bohemian Girl ’ , and looked like fugitive kings and emperors beside the thick-set railway porter , in capacious velveteens , whose duty it was to put them on the right track towards the ‘ free land ’ . |
| 16 | He was putting them on the game , women and young girls who would otherwise never have dreamt of doing it . |
| 17 | I suppose what I did there was put them on the spot so how could I word that so that it does n't put people on the defensive so much ? |
| 18 | Or maybe , the other ends got hot while I was a-tapping them on the anvil . ’ |
| 19 | I was hitting them on the head and they were all falling on the floor . |