Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] them on the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Logging remains crucial to the economy in the central provinces of Binh Dinh and Gia Lai and the bans are seen as being largely for international consumption , with little effort made to enforce them on the ground .
2 Well I tried to fix them on the door and they would n't stay
3 He then tried putting them on the roll — about tyre .
4 So he tried to show them on the piano .
5 It was their way of saying thank you to the locals who 'd helped them on the road to stardom .
6 In the Peak District and Northumberland National Parks many people held overnight vigils on appointed summits on the Friday and Saturday nights , while others walked to meet them on the summit .
7 Sister Cooney picked up a pile of books and began to replace them on the shelves .
8 Then we removed the wire from the front of the box and started feeding them on the ledge .
9 I actually felt they hustled better than us though we managed to catch them on the break quite a bit , ’ said Blaney .
10 However , if we worshipped a goddess who lived on Snowdon and adored strawberries , then non-practical , noneconomic ideas might dictate that we did grow them on the mountain top .
11 So she had placed them on the mantel with the vase and the dragon plates , and Gerry had promised her two more , next time he docked in Cape Town .
12 Rachel turned in the cramped space and saw that someone else had joined them on the jig .
13 FOURTEEN months ago Matchbox announced that repeats of the TV series Thunderbirds had caught them on the hop and they would n't be able to supply any tie-in toys for Christmas 1991 .
14 This is the second skirmish in a brief cross-border raid for Edinburgh 's Joyriders ( the previous evening had seen them on the charity gig trail with Mega City Four in Tufnell Park ) , out to bludgeon the capital 's callow youth into line with their handsomely appointed tuff-pop manifesto .
15 Members were pleased when constituents said that they had seen them on the box , and only one Member had received complaints that he had not been seen .
16 But she had seen them on the newsreel before the big film , creaking and groaning across the land , their great limbless , legless form crushing and grinding all that was in their way .
17 But by now the rising waters had isolated them on the islands of Borneo , Sumatra and Java .
18 The cherries were most certainly stolen , but would I really have been a better person if I had left them on the plate ?
19 We wondered what stupid idiot had left them on the Tube . ’
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