Example sentences of "them [adv] on the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | He took the tins of food through to the lean-to and piled them up on the draining board . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | To win this great prize just spot the ten differences between the two cartoons , mark them clearly on the right hand cartoon . |
| 6 | Still , he created two characters in The Lord of the Rings of particular suggestiveness , both of them originally on the right side but seduced or corroded by evil , and so especially likely to have analogues in the real world : these are Denethor and Saruman , each of them seen faintly satirically , almost politically . |
| 7 | It can hardly be of great value to them out on the open ocean where they spend the bulk of their time , except perhaps to detect the stench of a floating carcass on which they might feed . |
| 8 | An ordinary pack ; a Tarot pack ; she spread them out on the polished mahogany . |
| 9 | ‘ He 's already appeared with them on TV — and ca n't wait to team up with them again on the big screen . ’ |
| 10 | The power of the platform 's weapons and the threat they posed was enough to give anyone pause for thought , but now they appeared somehow more lethal because they were unseen — concealed behind gunports which had been engineered to such fine tolerances that Rostov could detect no hint of them anywhere on the curved metal skin . |