Example sentences of "[verb] them on to 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 | In every generation , REPRODUCTION takes the genes that are supplied to it by the previous generation , and hands them on to the next generation but with minor random errors — mutations . |
6 | He pulled off his work jeans and threw them on to the little pile in the corner . |
7 | It 's dragged a few graceful oddities away from comparing navel fluff in their garages and shoved them on to the European circuit . |
8 | But their real function is to give people a chance to be famous for five minutes , by saying something that will get them on to the next news broadcast . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | 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 . |