Example sentences of "[verb] they [adv prt] on the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maybe that 'll bring them back on the next plane . ’ |
| 2 | 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 |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | He took the tins of food through to the lean-to and piled them up on the draining board . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Then the company puts them back on the same job and they further injure themselves . |
| 7 | You stick them round on the old er airer in front of the open fire . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | An ordinary pack ; a Tarot pack ; she spread them out on the polished mahogany . |
| 10 | 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 ] . |