Example sentences of "[vb past] them on [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had brought things to make their evening meal and she emptied them on to the work-counter : wine , cheese , spinach , onions , bread , the pink-white tines of a rack of lamb , as if all the promise of their future lay in the guarantee of such ordinariness being possible . |
| 2 | The captain of the guard led them on to the scaffold , a scrawny-faced clerk gabbled out the sentence of the court . |
| 3 | I flung them on to the bed where she should have been , but was n't . |
| 4 | The bodymaker passed the doors to the finishers , who in turn passed them on to the french polishers ; the doors then moved along to those whose work it was to hang them in position , the operations being so arranged that the polished door was completed just at the point where it was to be hung on the coach . |
| 5 | The Crown claim Butler had collected information about his movement in the town and passed them on to the IRA . |
| 6 | Spokeswoman Jane McLean said yesterday : ‘ After that we stopped recording the calls and passed them on to the JobCentre at Holywell , which is handling the recruitment . ’ |
| 7 | Spokeswoman Jane McLean said yesterday : ‘ After that we stopped recording the calls and passed them on to the JobCentre at Holywell which is handling the recruitment . ’ |
| 8 | The new novel has married the pair and moved them on into the mid-Sixties and from the provinces to London , where Patrick works misgivingly in a fashionable publishing-house . |
| 9 | He unzipped the holdall , took out a couple of Boyt shoulder holsters and dropped them on to the table before delving into the holdall again for two handguns carefully wrapped in strips of green cloth . |
| 10 | From the drawings , he sketched various elevations , then cut them out and transferred them on to the blocks of wood to be bandsawn . |
| 11 | She threw them on to the table and looked down at Doyle and Tug . |
| 12 | He then threw them on to the ground in the tinder-dry hay loft without putting them out properly , it is alleged . |
| 13 | He pulled off his work jeans and threw them on to the little pile in the corner . |
| 14 | The shop-keeper nodded with eventual understanding , cut off a huge bunch of bright green grapes and threw them on to the scales . |
| 15 | They were not yet dry but she had no others apart from her best ones , so she pulled them on over the warm , dry woollen stockings into which she had changed upon coming in from the buildings . |
| 16 | He urged them on through the mounting waves until they too reached the Rebecca , and he was able to ram one hole , fill it with pitch , then another , and another , round the hull beneath the overhang of the bows , in a rain of missiles , with fire sizzling around him , and his fellow fighters hanging on , hoping for the moment when the timbers would be ablaze . |
| 17 | It 's dragged a few graceful oddities away from comparing navel fluff in their garages and shoved them on to the European circuit . |
| 18 | The centre forward , whom they nicknamed Ossie , wore his sideburns long and his shorts even longer — but at least he kept them on for the duration . |
| 19 | He tossed them on to the back seat and went to the passenger side of the car . |
| 20 | She peeled off the pants , and tossed them on to the chair . |
| 21 | Pulling the centre-half back left a gap in midfield which needed a link man to pick up passes from defence and lay them on for the forwards . |
| 22 | She carried them on to the terrace in front of the house , and sat down , intending to read one of the paperback books she 'd brought with her until the light faded . |
| 23 | Hawkmoths , which are among the swiftest insect flyers capable of speeds of 50 kph , have reduced their hind wings very considerably in size and latched them on to the long narrow fore-wings with a curved bristle . |
| 24 | The people who created the Garotter 's Act , together with the gentlemen who egged them on from the sidelines helping to fashion the vocabulary of objections to penal reform which remain with us to this day , were thus the same men whose blunted moral sensibilities enabled them to preside over this magnanimous process of ‘ civilisation ’ without turning a hair . |
| 25 | Maurice snatched out a pile and loaded them on to the reeling Edward . |