Example sentences of "they [vb mod] [verb] [pron] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Your employer has no legal or even moral obligation to house you , although they may advise you on what is available locally in the public and private sector . |
| 2 | The seeds are all the external influences that tend to throw us out of balance and they may affect us on any level of our being ; on the physical level it may be something simple like being exposed to a cold wind , getting soaked in the rain or even some form of trauma . |
| 3 | ‘ They may have something on file . ’ |
| 4 | They ought to spend it on the speaker — I would 've thought that was obvious . |
| 5 | Margaret , can you give me a phone number for her because I thought if they do that they must put her on plays with us students |
| 6 | And erm , they they they must try them on human beings , and I 'm sure there are some people who are quite prepared to these tried . |
| 7 | There is no surplus from which to pay a dividend , but when directors asked for £162m of new capital through a rights issue at this time last year , shareholders were promised an unchanged final 7.64p , so they should receive it on July 1 . |
| 8 | All the creatures that we have to kill and eat , all those that we have to strike down and destroy to make clothes for ourselves , have souls , like we have , souls that do not perish with the body , and which must therefore be propitiated lest they should avenge themselves on us for taking away their bodies ( see Rasmussen , 1929 ) . |
| 9 | are plenty of others they 'll tell you on the course . |
| 10 | ‘ They 'll blame it on Pilate error ’ |
| 11 | Ah they 'll show it on the news later on . |
| 12 | She 'll give a pound coin to one of the tinkers ’ children when there 're dozens of them running round , and she 'll let them see she 's got lots more pound coins , and then she has to give them all one or they 'll bang her on the head and take them . ’ |
| 13 | I mean those , by and large , those who who need to listen to what I 'm saying to and take it on board wo n't and those who already do do n't need it anyway but they 'll take it on board . |
| 14 | Erm but I 'm hoping they 'll put them on a , on the table when we sell them in here and there 's that 's the first thing that 'll hit them is the turned legs you see ? |
| 15 | As a result , erm , prices wo n't be quite as volatile as they are in the opposite case , alright , when the world market , and virtually nobody , let's assume that virtually nobody uses the world market to trade in , they 've all got their own agricultural policies , right , just a few countries trade in the world market , it only takes erm , a , a sort of poor harvest , or a very good harvest in any one of these erm , er , sort of protected countries , in order to get rid of this output , they 'll put it on the world market . |
| 16 | Actually there was a little bit , they showed you the four goals on the television so they might show it on the nine o'clock |
| 17 | Or they might put her on a prison ship to Australia , as they 'd done with two girls from St Jude 's a couple of months ago , because — on those farms where the transported convicts worked all chained together — there was a shortage of women . |
| 18 | France and England never pulled together , for all they might find themselves on the same side . ’ |
| 19 | My legs are wobbling , they could dump me on the lino . |
| 20 | Their relatives were overjoyed that they could see them on stage when they returned to their home town in the summer for a couple of weeks at the prestigious new Palace of Varieties . |
| 21 | He was silent for a while and they could hear someone on the telephone in the main room . |
| 22 | ‘ Would ye , ’ Rab asked ; he thought it the daftest question , ‘ if somebody tells ye they could fly ye on a kite ? |
| 23 | and then when it got over to the Clerks ' Department they used to stick it on another piece of paper so that they could put it on the file |
| 24 | but then they could hit you on the head if they saw you 've got it with you . |
| 25 | They used to use it like a canal ; anything that could n't be moved easily by land , they 'd stick it on a boat . |
| 26 | You might be in here , harmless , visiting somebody , and before you could say Werewolves Unite they 'd have you on the operating table , jacking both legs off . |
| 27 | If the authorities read that they 'd put me on the next bus to [ name of border area ] and keep me there . |
| 28 | You started , I forget one , you know they 'd put them on the bo It was all board and slates , there were no books , you know , no papers . |
| 29 | Oh yes , I can see them on now , cards , they used to sell them on cards . |
| 30 | and then when it got over to the Clerks ' Department they used to stick it on another piece of paper so that they could put it on the file |