Example sentences of "they [vb base] [pron] on [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The client takes out a second application , and they want it on minimum premiums , they actually get it for eighty per cent of the current value of the minimum premium . |
| 2 | ‘ When you meet them they kiss you on both cheeks . |
| 3 | Well , I 'd had so much time on the sick , they put me on half pay . |
| 4 | Oh well they treated me alright afterwards because Mr er said , well you see they put me on big presses during the last war and er I 've always loved machinery , always loved machinery and then the foreman said er before the foreman came to him Mr said er , you 've got to learn to set your own tools , he said , I ca n't keep coming out of the tool room and er to change your tools , so of course erm I began setting my own tools , but when I got them in they would come around and check because otherwise hundreds of pounds have gone , could have gone if I had n't just got the top to go in right in the base you know , and er they were great big presses very big . |
| 5 | By the way those did I tell you they put me on some tablets to re to erm to erm |
| 6 | And they get them on one machine ? |
| 7 | They try it on all ways do n't they ? |
| 8 | they do it on these er they must be you know |
| 9 | They leave them on all night , even when the shop 's shut . |
| 10 | together with a representative of British Rail , and he was saying that , I , forget how many car transporters they 've got that erm , they built , bought specially to go on British Rail , he said , but they said he just had to give them up for many reasons and one of them was the problems that they have with new cars when they take them on British Rail and the brake dust from the trains apparently causes immediate rust . |
| 11 | A Negro dies of heart failure , they blame it on racial segregation . |