Example sentences of "we [verb] they on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | We pat them on the back , as if they were dogs ; |
| 2 | He said nothing as we climbed the stairs , but he did n't switch the lights on as we passed them on the landing . |
| 3 | As we passed them on the road we glimpsed great crowds of people in the wide back seats , a jumble of merry faces at the windows . |
| 4 | We do support them and as I say we buy our poppies , we wear our poppies and like this year we put them on the wreath as well you know er we 're very keen . |
| 5 | a lot of groups of people so we we print them on the ratio of three to one . |
| 6 | Whatever we tell them on the phone is always per annum and we have to be . |
| 7 | We all buy goods on impulse sometimes — simply because we saw them on the shelf of the shop . |
| 8 | We offered them on the basis of them creating a mass membership party . |
| 9 | We left them on the boat while we wandered into the town to discuss with Sunsail a fuel tank that a previous charterer had filled with water instead of diesel . |
| 10 | ‘ We had them on the run by then . |
| 11 | We have them on the run , ’ Denis insisted . |
| 12 | However , even here a discrepancy arises as Mercier shows the keyfronts to be black ( just as we see them on the William Smith ) , whereas in all of the spinets by Hitchcock and in his sole surviving harpsichord at the Victoria and Albert Museum , London , the colour of the keyfronts matches the natural key plates ( i.e. ivory keys always have ivory arcades ) . |