Example sentences of "[verb] them on [art] " in BNC.
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1 | Used to hit them on the arm , never on the head . |
2 | The smaller bits we 'd look at for a time and then he 'd throw them on the fire . |
3 | We really felt that this was a book to push on , and so we talked to the trade very early on , consulted them on the jacket and so on . |
4 | You do n't fucking expect to see them on the side of a bar though do you ? |
5 | Will the hon. Gentleman please lay them on the table ? |
6 | ‘ Why did they build them on the top of hills ? ’ she asked Christopher . |
7 | But you must not build them on the graveyard . |
8 | You see I would like to see people at the end of this programme to have some idea , not just of fancy figures in the air , but of practical effects that will affect them on the ground . |
9 | ‘ Have I said something , then ? ’ he asked , taking off his cap and overcoat and hanging them on the door peg . |
10 | Have you ever thought of knitting them on a larger scale ? |
11 | If you did , if you failed them on a regular basis , you would n't be here , right ? |
12 | She picked up my underclothes from the floor and laid them on a chair . |
13 | He once caught a pigeon , but it was mostly sparrows so small that , when he laid them on the embers to cook , they were ready by the time the feathers had singed and were hardly worth even sharing , except with the twins who insisted . |
14 | So all attending had brought their freshly picked bunches with them and laid them on the coffin as they arrived , and I must say that it looked — and smelled — lovely . |
15 | A human chain of soldiers , castle employees and members of the royal family carried out paintings , carpets , furniture , Sevres vases , books and drawings and laid them on the lawns before being transported by convoys of lorries . |
16 | He took an envelope from his breast pocket , extracted three photos , laid them on the desk . |
17 | Carson appeared with the towels , a bath-sized and two hand-sized , and laid them on the duvet by her bag . |
18 | She took some notes from her pocketbook and laid them on the table by her plate and her half-empty glass . |
19 | They had bought flowers in the village and they laid them on the new grave . |
20 | Taking out a sheaf of documents , he laid them on the desk top . |
21 | George Yaxlee took the contents of the back pocket and laid them on the mantelshelf . |
22 | He took the locket and the manuscript out of his pocket and laid them on the desk in front of the headmaster . |
23 | Zen took out a notepad and pencil and laid them on the desk . |
24 | Carter took out his packet of cigarettes and a box of matches and laid them on the locker . |
25 | Ronni carried them indoors and laid them on the kitchen table , scarcely able to bear the mouth-watering aromas that were escaping from beneath the tin foil . |
26 | Certainly , according to Hardie , ‘ in the case of allocating insurance premiums on particular lines of cover when setting individual budgets for the following year , head offices could look at their operating units ’ past claims records and load them on the poor performers while even awarding the equivalent of no claims bonuses to the good ones . |
27 | The importance of locational specifications in general can be gauged from the fact that there seem to be two basic ways of referring to objects — by describing or naming them on the one hand , and by locating them on the other ( Lyons , 1977a : 648 ) . |
28 | One of these papers was a recent statement by the county education committee that no change in the status of the grammar school was contemplated : on that basis , I was able to reassure my anxious colleagues , when I met them on the first day of term , that abrupt change was not imminent . |
29 | Who met them on the beaches ? |
30 | Made from the latest in Polymer technology Asics Gel has the unique ability to absorb vertical impact forces and disperse them on a horizontal plane . |