Example sentences of "them on [art] " in BNC.

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1 Place them on a sandy layer over seed compost in trays , adding more sand to cover all but the tips .
2 He could sluice himself , shuddering , take off his clothes and scrub them on a stone kerb , then hang them one by one out of the window .
3 ( Hartman has shown that the average person has one or less nightmares a year ; and only one person in 500 has them on a weekly basis . )
4 The whole of Great Britain was divided between them on a strictly geographical basis , and — subject to the general supervision of the British Railways Board and its chief officers in London — each region was completely responsible for the planning , working , and selling of all rail services in its area ( except in the seven provincial centres where PTEs had been established ) .
5 In The Groove , who runs at Phoenix Park on Saturday , has not achieved nearly as much as Dead Certain , but Elsworth rates them on a par .
6 To quote : It is the distinguishing characteristic of a healthy higher education that , even where it is concerned with practical techniques , it imparts them on a plane of generality that makes possible their application to many problems .
7 Another reason for our inability to give accurate figures is due to the prevalence of several other types of population movement , some of them on a huge scale , although extended over a longer period .
8 Once I felt comfortable in them I wore them on a couple of long section of the Cotswold Way and they fared well .
9 As new bands get a pittance for live work , the record company put them on a wage which can be in the form of an initial advance .
10 He wondered if she hung them on a china hand at night when she went to bed .
11 Afterwards she came into the kitchen while I washed her clothes and hung them on a bush in the garden to dry — and there was nothing in our words or manner to suggest that all this was not quite ordinary and everyday .
12 First , cases of ‘ excessive defence ’ have a grounding in legal justification , in that the occasion was one which justified the use of some force , and this places them on a higher social plateau than killings with no element of justification at all .
13 When the two men drove away , the Garda stopped them on a routine check .
14 And she believed the whales would remain at Laspi Bay at least for the summer , and had not heard of the widely criticised plans to take them on a travelling display .
15 A battered estate car was keeping pace with them on a farm track .
16 One Toronto investment dealer said : ‘ They are trying to isolate their good properties from the bad , refinancing them on a separate basis .
17 Make sure your house is thoroughly draught-proofed by testing windows and doors by closing them on a piece of paper .
18 Which reminds me that some bright sparks got the five ducks which our Mess has acquired very drunk the other day by feeding them on a pap of bread and over-ripe grapes .
19 The grandfather was a favourite with the neighbouring children too , ‘ a great one for stories ’ , and in the summer would sit them on a seat outside his door , ‘ not only his own grandchildren but other children about , listening to the tales he used to tell , about old Dumfries ’ : of the murderess Mary Timmony , for example , the last woman publicly hanged in Dumfries .
20 The gardener , an honest youth of little imagination who was by now enchanted by the whole affair , remembered that the taste of strawberries was improved by setting them on a cabbage leaf , and strode down to the brassica beds to cut a broad green plate for the feast .
21 There , they are likely to listen sympathetically and you may be lucky and catch them on a quiet day .
22 Newman dumped his bag , took out two spare suits , hung them on a hanger , left the case lid open and left the Hessischer Hof .
23 Walkers would find themselves diving out of the way on paths , escaping from runaway mountain bikes careering towards them on a mission to deposit their riders in a ditch .
24 You could admire them from a safe distance , but you would n't want to run into one of them on a dark night at the crossroads .
25 He was sobered to find that many Tahitians were already dying from the venereal diseases bequeathed to them on a previous visit .
26 In this connection McClellan has written that the librarian does not reject books , but places them on a ‘ scale of accessibility ’ .
27 As rock characteristics can vary considerably over very short intervals , it is useful to be able to evaluate them on a continuous basis from log data .
28 The clarity and definition of rich pictures can be aided by using computer graphics ; however , attempting to construct them on a computer from the outset can impose artificial constraints , and the original pictures should always be drawn freehand .
29 Although cylinder manufacturers countered effectively for some decades , first with moulding techniques and later with finer grooves , the overwhelming simplicity of being able to press thousands of copies of disc records and play them on a simple machine eventually told in the disc 's favour .
30 I have therefore grouped them on a broad geological basis : sand , chalk , clay , and the gravels and loams of the coastal plain which probably also enjoys a modest climatic advantage over the rest of the county .
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