Example sentences of "they [vb base] [pers pn] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ So we all go up in the lift , and the two bucks as good as carry the mother 's boy into the room ; he 's almost completely gone , and they sit him on the bed and they pour some of the champagne down him and then they come out . |
| 2 | ‘ It makes you think , when you hear people call you Chariie as they sling you on the slab . ’ |
| 3 | Sixty six she was , so in we go , and it 's got open to the general public , so this man said to her something about I ca n't serve you I 've had a robbery , she said I do n't know why they advertise it on the window if he 's , if he 's not prepared to serve me and when I looked round there was all the taken over , they had a burglary . |
| 4 | No I mean usually they show you on the T V when they 're leaving do n't they ? |
| 5 | They show it on the Leeds United — The Glory Years video about three times and it always appears on the ten best goals of all time . |
| 6 | They catch you on the hop . |
| 7 | ‘ They let me on the train . ’ |
| 8 | It was the way they put me on the right track that made me wonder — guiding angels in the Bible have a habit of appearing as two young men . |
| 9 | Ah well they put me on the top rate of pay , which was quite good , thirty five shilling a week . |
| 10 | ‘ I started to come round when they put me on the slab . |
| 11 | And erm I did n't get the actual job I went for but they put me on the , on the relief register so that I go round to different people 's homes or different big hospitals and different Mencap homes relieving people when they 're on holiday or if they 're short of staff or something like that . |
| 12 | and they 've I gave them to them and they put them on the hedges |
| 13 | They they put him on the rail they tied him to the railway track so he 'd get run over by a train but I do n't think he did . |
| 14 | He was just doing the ‘ Hunky Dory ’ album but we did n't know that , Anyway , we got in touch with The Country Club and they put us on the guest list and Cherry Vanilla , Wayne County and I , posing as journalists , went along to see him . |
| 15 | Er it erm er the result was that you was really working flat out all the summer , and then as the winter advanced , you got very short of work , and they put us on the dole , for half a week . |
| 16 | but she had drapes and that to buy herself and , and they put it on the frame and she ca n't get into her drawers on bed , so they 're no good |
| 17 | they put it on the drive for |
| 18 | Well at the time they put it on the market we , we all three thought that it would be a good idea if , if both families sold up and moved into something smaller and perhaps moved near to each other |
| 19 | Clydebank make a practice of discomfiting clubs from the higher division when they meet them on the claustrophobic confines of their own pitch , as last season 's finalists , Airdrie , discovered when they were knocked out after a third-round replay . |
| 20 | Course , they had n't had lorries in them days , they drive them on the road and you see old shepherd coming along with a couple of dogs and goodness knows how many sheep ! |
| 21 | The assistants price the items as they stack them on the shelves , or when they are already on the shelves . |
| 22 | You go down there they slap you on the wrist you walk away from it and go and do it again . |
| 23 | Of course , if they get me on the phone , I 'm lost . |
| 24 | No , I mean it 's , it 's nothing , I rang erm Social Services this morning in Northampton and I got an appointment for an advisory thing on Thursday morning , erm , the women I 'm going to see she retires on Friday , she said well I 'll have to get you in quick , erm and she , they advise you on the , what you 've got to do to get into what I want to get into you see , so erm I 've got that to sort to do , I mean |
| 25 | The first thing they ask me on the 1st tee is , ‘ Billy , tell me all about your family . ' ’ |
| 26 | On the front one they do it on the knee which is the er do you see , which is higher up . |
| 27 | ‘ You know , ’ he explains , ‘ they have them on the radio . |
| 28 | and erm , you know , they spend it on the six of them pocket money for sixteen years it all of them have left school now |
| 29 | They blame it on the bombers . |
| 30 | They enlighten us on the mystery , we are grateful to them , we trust them and then we buy their product . |