Example sentences of "on them [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It might be too much of a shock if we burst in on them without any warning . ’ |
| 2 | The patient may find these activities both boring and frustrating , especially if you are constantly trying to make him concentrate on them as educational tasks . |
| 3 | If you want to share them , put a new condom on them for each user or wash them thoroughly in hot water ( as long as the toy is not electrical ! ) . |
| 4 | The Dependency Ratio , refers to the ratio between those in employment and those dependent on them for financial support , — directly or indirectly eg children , the elderly and the unemployed . |
| 5 | That way you will be paying interest on them for many years . |
| 6 | And they quote epistles of St. Paul so difficult that the theologians , who have been working on them for two thousand years , have not got to the bottom of them . |
| 7 | With almost all the farms having stock on them for 365 days , and with wives restricted in the heavy work they could do , most men had quite a bit to do when they returned from work . |
| 8 | That has brought a great deal of success , because the French Government are now taking the tough measures that we have been pressing on them for 10 years . |
| 9 | I do n't put a meaning on them for other people , they must form their own ideas ; I know what I meant when I made them , but it may not be the same thing for other people . |
| 10 | Someone up there must have wagered a few bob on them for another Grand Slam . |
| 11 | This belief in the witches power becomes more evident as the play goes on and he comes to rely on them for more . |
| 12 | Because the racket has a diagonal string pattern , spin shots ( top spin and slice ) become easier to play , basically because the strings on such a pattern are longer and therefore the ball rests on them for longer . |
| 13 | The Spanish police also maintained that they had kept the suspected terrorists ' movements under close surveillance and maintained a constant flow of information on them to British officials in Gibraltar . |
| 14 | Keep one eye on them at all times to avoid problems . |
| 15 | Hitch , Morton and McCann stood over the other three men while they transferred the precious cargo , guns trained on them at all times . |
| 16 | The slaves could come in , if need be , as support from the rear , resupplying the front line ; but Kit was loath to call on them at all , and they would have to fight unarmed . |
| 17 | I was gon na say , is n't , they ca n't do anything on them at all ! |
| 18 | Is there no lids on them at all ? |
| 19 | But the fact is I have done it all , up till about the first six months there and then I started getting well , well out of my league , you start getting the machining and stuff like that , I have n't done much on them at all . |
| 20 | So documents do not get transit liability on them at all . |
| 21 | But motorists on the M4 the other day who glanced in their mirrors would have seen him bearing down on them at great speed in his newly acquired 1968 Bentley T-series . |
| 22 | But motorists on the M4 the other day who glanced in their mirrors would have seen him bearing down on them at great speed in his newly acquired 1968 Bentley T-series . |
| 23 | I suppose that in a few countries like Nazi Germany in nineteen-thirty-six the erm the nation 's amateur champions were given a special backing because of the force of nationalism erm national focus of attention on them at that date , but it , it still was , they were amateurs still meeting on equal ground . |
| 24 | They stopped shouting at each other , expecting the Headmaster to burst in on them at any moment . |
| 25 | But Wilkinson said : ‘ I am not interested in Manchester United and gaining or losing points on them at this stage . |
| 26 | of Stafford , in full county court , faithfully to serve the King in his office of verderer , therefore judgment shall be pronounced on them on that account . |
| 27 | Two liquid brown eyes gazed on them with mild curiosity , rising and falling with the pull of the waves . |
| 28 | Rather than taking the piece as a whole she broke it down into smaller parts and then worked on them with separate hands and at varied rhythms . |
| 29 | When the eggs are cool , paint faces on them with felt-tip pens . |
| 30 | Lucifer turned on them with such ferocity that some actually fell backwards off their benches . |