Example sentences of "[vb pp] them on the [noun sg] " 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 | ‘ 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 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 | mm , I 've seen them on the front that 's all yeah , mm |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It was their way of saying thank you to the locals who 'd helped them on the road to stardom . |
| 11 | Because it 's the media that 's got them on the run is n't it ? |
| 12 | We 've got them on the list |
| 13 | But you , you 've got them on the report , we could just write the arrears amount |
| 14 | 1992 has left them on the edge of relegation and out of the cup . |
| 15 | The cherries were most certainly stolen , but would I really have been a better person if I had left them on the plate ? |
| 16 | We wondered what stupid idiot had left them on the Tube . ’ |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | And look they 've put them on the bottom , instead of doing the top ones first , they obviously have n't . |
| 19 | I suppose what I did there was put them on the spot so how could I word that so that it does n't put people on the defensive so much ? |