Example sentences of "they [adv] [verb] on [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the campaign for elections to the European Parliament ( EP ) in June 1989 [ see pp. 36737 ; 36874-75 ] they successfully capitalized on opposition to controversial proposals that foreigners should be enfranchised for local elections throughout European Community ( EC ) member states . |
| 2 | On an average tour it will make the band up to £20,000 profit , a figure they rarely reach on ticket sales . |
| 3 | Phosphorescent purple eyes peer out from beneath shells ; black sea urchins swivel their spines as they slowly perambulate on needle tip ; starfish of an intense blue spangle the sand ; and patterned rosettes unfurl from holes in the smooth surface of coral . |
| 4 | Without the assurance that there will be a market of sufficient size for the company 's products when they eventually come on stream ( a considerable period may elapse between product conception and realisation ) , projects requiring major capital investment would be too hazardous to undertake . |
| 5 | When delivered ready to start running on I August 1913 , the ten ‘ SoutherN ’ buses were integrated with the L.G.O.C. fleet and allocated to Streatham Garage , from which they normally worked on route 59 , ( Oxford Circus and South Croydon ) which competed directly with Croydon Corporation trams , emphasising Croydon 's weakness in not having through running powers to work to London . |
| 6 | Do they always pay on time or are they like everyone else ? |
| 7 | ‘ I 've got me regular suppliers an' they always come on time . |
| 8 | There has been the growth of feminist bookshops , research and resources centres , publishing houses , journals and magazines — even if they usually exist on shoe-string budgets . |
| 9 | Erm I was going to pick up on a number of points that have been raised by previous speakers , but erm Mr Grigson and Mr Curtis seem to have er dealt with a few of those , erm just with regard to the the table put in by C P R E , with their figures , I would just agree with Mr Cur er Mr Grigson that there is a very substantial degree of double counting in those figures , there is also a very substantial degree of over provision in the allowance for for conversions , er past conversion rates in Greater York have averaged something like twenty nine dwellings per year , over a fifteen year period your talking about four hundred and thirty five dwellings , which is the figure that both York City Council and ourselves have have made allowance for for conversions , that compares with a figure of a thousand dwellings referred to by the C P R E and I see no foundation for that figure , erm , as I say Mr Curtis already picked up on the point about windfalls rates by Mr Thomas , erm just turning to the difference between the tables er submitted by the County Council and York City Council on the the residue within the er Greater York area , I would accept the figure , the figures put in the tables by Mr er by Mr Curtis , I think that they have picked up the the more recent planning permissions and the completions information , and they also take on board there more recent work on erm development within the city , and I I accept that table . |
| 10 | A source said : ‘ They now acting on intelligence , and work on a day-to-day basis with the RUC drug squad . ’ |
| 11 | All these groups I keep writing about — what are they really like on stage ? |
| 12 | Oh yes , boy , they really dine on off-spin over here . ’ |
| 13 | They even went on holiday together . |
| 14 | Did anyone get as far as buying a programme for the Villa game , or did n't they even go on sale ? |
| 15 | The armies varied in style ; whilst the Saxon thegns rode horses , they invariably fought on foot , with axes , and the defensive position forced relative immobility on their troops , with the central professional nucleus , the housecarls , surrounding the king . |
| 16 | they simply go on file for horror films — |
| 17 | The black-out happened on Monday night when vandals crawled down a 100-yard tunnel which carried eight 33,000-volt mains cables , dragging a lorry tyre which they then set on fire . |
| 18 | The black-out happened on Monday night when vandals crawled down a 100-yard tunnel which carried eight 33,000-volt mains cables , dragging a lorry tyre which they then set on fire . |
| 19 | There is little doubt that the popular newspapers and the police embrace the copycat phenomenon with enthusiasm , so they may be misleading on many occasions with the supposed examples they sometimes put on display . |
| 20 | They briefly appeared on deck for lunch ; a meal which Rickie hardly touched , while Robin-Anne , despite her apparent frailty , attacked the sandwiches and salad with the savagery of a starving bear . |
| 21 | Can there be anything more telling about the deviousness of these people than his account of how they actually put on television and interviewed a man who was said to have died while in a prison cell , and that , moreover , they did it with the sole motive of demonstrating that he was alive and in good health . |
| 22 | Yeah Lis Lisa came in yesterday when I was round at Zed 's and she was complaining about how her keep fit class they bloody put on rave music . |