Example sentences of "we [adv prt] on the " in BNC.

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1 Are we down on the batteries ?
2 To my mind , the excellent Ms Phillips would be able to give a much funnier performance if she were allowed to let us in on the truth from the outset .
3 So I trooped down there and muscled us in on the Bazooka Joe gig .
4 In February , after an exhausting series of tests , the doctor let us in on the secret my father strove to keep until the end of his life .
5 In the evening we had a very enjoyable meal at the Captain 's table and Captain Lemaire filled us in on the delights of Martinque , our next port of call .
6 TV chef Raymond Blanc lets us in on the secrets of his kitchen
7 Cos when the well as soon as you could walk in the summer er you know when weather permitting my mam 'd take us down on the beach there and , Here you are , sink or swim in you 'd go into the water .
8 Well Jake was saying that he actually why you 're owed the forty five quid is he put us down on the wrong one with your .
9 He meets us over on the far side of the town at nine thirty P.M. ’
10 ‘ You can drop us off on the corner if you like , Bill . ’
11 She can start us off on the aerobics lesson .
12 A Sergeant and four Corporals arrived from Orange to pick us up on the following Monday .
13 Lining us up on the waste ground behind our barrack block , he had made the original offenders climb a pine tree until their bodies were jammed in the lower branches .
14 We stayed on board and we went up on to every deck and there was even a gentleman , he showed us up on the bridge on that er on that and , and of course there was the little shop and I bought I thought I must buy something on the Queen Elizabeth and I bought a pen .
15 At this point the two girls just marched off the train , one of them picked up David , the other one picked me up , screamed Russian things at the soldiers — I have n't a clue what they were saying — and marched us back on the train and barred the door , while the Russian soldiers were standing on the platform screaming horrible things at them .
16 All we need is a victory to put us back on the road .
17 All we need is a victory to put us back on the road .
18 ‘ I know , dear — there is a farm next door to us back on the dear old homestead and Daddy does usually describe himself as a farmer — but I meant that we capitalist parasites would be taking the place of the oxen , not the horny-handed salt-of-the-earth types cracking the whip over them . ’
19 But this wo n't get us out on the tide . ’
20 It will not only knock us around on the slightest whim ; but because of its size as a mature horse , it may become dangerous for us and others to handle .
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