Example sentences of "they [verb] on the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fact that my slimmers felt so much healthier encouraged them to continue on the diet while they were losing weight and it became clear that they had no intention of falling back in to their old habits . |
| 2 | But some , such as the Portuguese man-of-war ( Physalia ) and the velella , have sacs full of gas , which enable them to float on the surface , trailing their poisonous tentacles to catch fish that come to browse in the surface water . |
| 3 | He did not bother to look up when Corbett and Ranulf were ushered in but made a gesture for them to sit on the bench alongside the table while he continued noisily with his meal . |
| 4 | A witness says she saw them knock on the door . ’ |
| 5 | But then , most of them relied on the head men , we used to tell them you see , to keep their mouth shut . |
| 6 | However , I only put a few dozen sheets of paper through the machine , and two of them caught on the wire loop , which creased the paper and caused ink smudges where the machine was still printing . |
| 7 | Billeting allocation was frequently chaotic : host families could be hostile ; children might be selected according to their good looks and manners ; in rural areas , farmers often gleefully snapped up the strongest boys and set them to work on the land . |
| 8 | Electrodes , that 's what they were ; she had seen them used on the baby in the next cot to Jenny in the hospital , just a few days before she had died . |
| 9 | In addition , work which has been prepared on a word-processor and presented to teachers or assessors encourages them to concentrate on the content without being prejudiced by the presentation . |
| 10 | A creative use for a pair of extension microphones used for recording location sound in stereo is to position one of them to concentrate on the foreground sound , leaving the pick-up of more general background sound to the other microphone . |
| 11 | That had seemed natural to Stephen , the way things should be : his father working and then emerging from his work , all three of them walking on the beach , or walking to Badstoneleigh to go to the Pavilion , or having tea on Stephen 's birthday in the Spinning Wheel , or going to see Somerset play . |
| 12 | Officials did n't even want them to appear on the track as they stage-managed another two-hour show for the audience at home . |
| 13 | This practice , borrowed from the United States , recognises that until shares are issued they confer no rights at all , and that the rights ultimately attached to them depend on the company 's decision at the time when they are issued . |
| 14 | There was one of them caressing on the beach at Crystal Springs , and another of the glamorous couple wrapped around each other in the crystal-clear water of the hotel beach . |
| 15 | But the pigeon 's adaptation to such a diet of large objects is so good that seeds only a little smaller than a nutmeg will pass right through the bird and be ejected together with a small quantity of droppings which will help them grow on the forest floor . |
| 16 | Not only are there vines as far as the eye can see from its brand-new winemaking centre in Vertus , but the company also owns nearly 310 acres of its own vineyards , most of them sited on the Côte des Blancs . |
| 17 | Outside the months of breeding all but a few species disappear to wintering grounds well south of the Arctic Circle ; thus the arctic has over 150 species of breeding land birds , but only eight of them reside on the tundra all the year round . |
| 18 | Very few women took part in training , which was surprising when one considers how important a part many of them played on the farm . |
| 19 | The strength , durability and weight of them depends on the weight of fabric used and how much coating has been applied . |
| 20 | Not long afterwards , watching , he saw them appear on the roof They looked around for a moment and then went down . |
| 21 | If there was a cool breeze I would sometimes find them squatting on the lee side of a dry-stone wall . |
| 22 | And when you see them racing on the television ! |
| 23 | just , just , left them lying on the floor . |
| 24 | Then he saw them lying on the ground , but not complete clubs , just the heads with their covers on , protruding from a detachable section that could be removed to expose the empty cylinder of the golf-bag . |
| 25 | When my mother and a friend came to visit me at Wolverton I brought them to Cambridge and , with the confidence of inexperience , I took them punting on the river . |
| 26 | Without even knowing it , we may make assumptions about them based on the fact that they 're called Charles rather than Kevin . |
| 27 | This book established Kitto as a writer , and in the following years , he wrote a number of books — many of them based on the Scripture , including the work which is still regarded as the best of its kind , Cyclopaedia of Biblical Literature . |
| 28 | One of them remarked on the scent . ’ |
| 29 | She used to show you a collection of photographs which she kept in her wallet as if they were family photographs , but in fact these pictures were all pictures of men 's cocks , she used to make them stop on the way home at the photobooth in the entrance to the station , she 'd make them stand on the stool with their trousers down , she never got caught — Greta , on seeing me leave with an especially handsome man : ‘ I hope you 're on the pill . ’ |
| 30 | Oh he 's brilliant , he has them stuck on the side of his wardrobe door on big pages this size , you know , maybe this height , and it 's detailed right through the whole thing . |