Example sentences of "they [vb base] [pers pn] on [art] " 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 | have they put her on a diet ? |
| 9 | So I started there and they put me on a month 's trial and I dithered about about this month , whether I was good enough , and they 'd forgotten all about it , by the end of month , trial . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Ah well they put me on the top rate of pay , which was quite good , thirty five shilling a week . |
| 12 | ‘ I started to come round when they put me on the slab . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | and they 've I gave them to them and they put them on the hedges |
| 15 | come Saturday they 'd rearranged the whole ward and they put him on a W R V S air bed , he were in heaven on this bed , I said why the fuck could n't you have done that earlier ? |
| 16 | so they put him on a life support did they ? |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | When you die there they put you on a wooden platform below the sky and the vultures come and eat the body . |
| 21 | They put it on a bigger scale but the entertainment far below ours ! |
| 22 | They put it on a a solvent or a fat in layers and let the oil seep through , and so it takes a lot longer and is more difficult to get . |
| 23 | They put it on every question and they all come out of the exam and they say , Oh it was fifty degrees wa No , it was all the way , it was three hundred and ten . |
| 24 | 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 |
| 25 | they put it on the drive for |
| 26 | 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 |
| 27 | ‘ Even if they stop you on a busy shopping morning and ask you to sign petitions ? ’ |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | … the people of Burma are friendly hospitable folk ; they meet you on a friendly equal basis , without cringing or self-assertion . |
| 30 | Likewise with friends they 've probably got fewer friends but the friends they have got are very close friends and they know them on a much deeper level . |