Example sentences of "[vb pp] them on [art] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 Rachel turned in the cramped space and saw that someone else had joined them on the jig .
3 The Committee had simply patted them on the back like spoilt children and told them , ‘ Now just send your children back to school . ’
4 I have therefore grouped them on a broad geological basis : sand , chalk , clay , and the gravels and loams of the coastal plain which probably also enjoys a modest climatic advantage over the rest of the county .
5 ‘ It 's only a bunch of flowers , ’ he said , pleased with her response , ‘ although I can guarantee that I have bought them , and have n't picked them on the way over .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 But I 've seen them on the pictures .
11 Well I 've seen them on the l lawn so that
12 mm , I 've seen them on the front that 's all yeah , mm
13 Periodically we had lifted and turned them on the banks , where the sun and wind had shrunk and hardened them .
14 It was their way of saying thank you to the locals who 'd helped them on the road to stardom .
15 He 's got them on a
16 We 've got them on the list
17 Because it 's the media that 's got them on the run is n't it ?
18 In actual fact I 've got a friend and I go potholing with him , we meet , he 's a Kendall farmer , he 's a a sheep farmer and er , we meet and he says you know what I 've got a problem with on my land , not foxes dogs and walkers that have n't got them on the leads and crows at lambing time cos they peck their eyes out and things of that calibre , he says yes , I 'll tell you what I 'll bet you I 've had animals taken by foxes he , he says I probably have , he said but I 've not had this kind of unindeighted killing as .
19 Whether they 're hard to get or whether they have n't got them on the normal channels I do n't know !
20 But you , you 've got them on the report , we could just write the arrears amount
21 But by now the rising waters had isolated them on the islands of Borneo , Sumatra and Java .
22 In arriving at these estimates I have based them on the following estimations and assumptions :
23 The tomatoes were black as though they 'd forgot they were frying them , they looked like they 'd stuck them on a grill and just left them there
24 Unionists proved quite able to handle the new mass electorate , and their efforts to gear up to meet new challenges in and after 1911 had set them on the right road .
25 He said he had found them on a tip but was convicted of theft by York magistrates .
26 But not wishing to have the bother of carrying them , they 'd left them on a chair in the kitchen .
27 The cherries were most certainly stolen , but would I really have been a better person if I had left them on the plate ?
28 We wondered what stupid idiot had left them on the Tube . ’
29 1992 has left them on the edge of relegation and out of the cup .
30 You know they 're either set up now you 've given them an education and thrown them on the world squandering it now they 'll only squander it when they get their hands on it you might as well squander it on yourselves , let the kids squander it for you .
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