Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] them on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was their way of saying thank you to the locals who 'd helped them on the road to stardom . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Rachel turned in the cramped space and saw that someone else had joined them on the jig . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | But by now the rising waters had isolated them on the islands of Borneo , Sumatra and Java . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The cherries were most certainly stolen , but would I really have been a better person if I had left them on the plate ? |
| 11 | We wondered what stupid idiot had left them on the Tube . ’ |