Example sentences of "[verb] them on [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The bodymaker passed the doors to the finishers , who in turn passed them on to the french polishers ; the doors then moved along to those whose work it was to hang them in position , the operations being so arranged that the polished door was completed just at the point where it was to be hung on the coach . |
| 2 | Republics collect taxes but are refusing to pass them on to the central government . |
| 3 | The goods always cost more than the mere monetary price ; and it is the object of the system to externalise these costs , by passing them on to the poor or to the impaired resource-base of the earth , and by inviting even the rich to live in collusive dissociation from the costs they , too , must pay . |
| 4 | It has become a specialist in adding value to chemicals and selling them on to the major companies . |
| 5 | He pulled off his work jeans and threw them on to the little pile in the corner . |
| 6 | Dressing apraxia refers to difficulty in putting on clothes ; the patient may manipulate them haphazardly , unable to relate them spatially to his own body , or he may be unable to put them on in the correct sequence . |
| 7 | They were not yet dry but she had no others apart from her best ones , so she pulled them on over the warm , dry woollen stockings into which she had changed upon coming in from the buildings . |
| 8 | He urged them on through the mounting waves until they too reached the Rebecca , and he was able to ram one hole , fill it with pitch , then another , and another , round the hull beneath the overhang of the bows , in a rain of missiles , with fire sizzling around him , and his fellow fighters hanging on , hoping for the moment when the timbers would be ablaze . |
| 9 | It 's dragged a few graceful oddities away from comparing navel fluff in their garages and shoved them on to the European circuit . |
| 10 | When they do use bricks here , they paint them brick red so you will know they are bricks , then they stick them on to the front outside walls as an ornamental display . |
| 11 | Hawkmoths , which are among the swiftest insect flyers capable of speeds of 50 kph , have reduced their hind wings very considerably in size and latched them on to the long narrow fore-wings with a curved bristle . |