Example sentences of "[verb] they [adv] on the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Soilless composts will do very well as they are , keeping them slightly on the dry side , but be very careful , as such composts take a long time to dry out but then do so completely with alarming rapidity , and are exceedingly difficult to wet through to the centre of the root-ball . |
| 2 | If you are using guitar machine heads ( far more easily adjusted than pegs , which also require special tools to fit them accurately ) it is more convenient to modify the shape of the head and fit them only on the left ( if you are right-handed ) in the manner of Fender guitars . |
| 3 | So basically all I would have to do is take them with me and I 'd bring them home on the same day . |
| 4 | Maybe that 'll bring them back on the next plane . ’ |
| 5 | It 's very good good erm good thing for the party and they 're usually quite starved of practical campaigning ideas and so we regularly try every at least every year to go and do a tour and erm we 've been giving them we we 're trying to rope them in on the various activities because they 're crying out for |
| 6 | Drain thoroughly and then slice them thinly on the diagonal . |
| 7 | He reached towards her with his strong hands and pressed them down on the fine-boned structure of her shoulders , massaging with rhythmic , kneading movements . |
| 8 | He took the tins of food through to the lean-to and piled them up on the draining board . |
| 9 | The manipulations performed may include arithmetic operations on some of these character strings , but we will probably wish to do them directly on the decimal digits , rather than convert to and from binary for each arithmetic operation . |
| 10 | He has , to switch metaphors , grabbed by the throat the Tories ' controversial team of young election campaign advisers , shaken them vigorously , and hung them up on the nearest meat hook . |
| 11 | To win this great prize just spot the ten differences between the two cartoons , mark them clearly on the right hand cartoon . |
| 12 | Then the company puts them back on the same job and they further injure themselves . |
| 13 | You stick them round on the old er airer in front of the open fire . |
| 14 | Banning unofficial action will put individual workers entirely at the mercy of unscrupulous employers who will be able to dismiss them selectively on the slightest pretext , without any right of appeal . ’ |
| 15 | After making each man check that his own line was securely attached , he moved them to the far end of the cage and sat them down on the wooden bench . |
| 16 | An ordinary pack ; a Tarot pack ; she spread them out on the polished mahogany . |
| 17 | They agreed to phase them out on the same timetable applying in their own countries , and faster than required by the Montreal Protocol ( the international agreement on protecting the ozone layer — see ED 52 ] . |