Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] them on the " in BNC.
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1 | The occupants of this very undesirable residence with no mod. cons. were gobbling their way through two chicks a day each , which we continued to feed to them on the ledge , right near their box , every morning and late afternoon . |
2 | They were , indeed , a sorry and sadly bedraggled lot , so covered in diesel and smoke that it was quite impossible to discriminate among them on the basis of age , sex or nationality . |
3 | Its appropriateness for the Foreign Office area was on grounds of association and sentiment , rather than visual harmony , as on one side there were buildings of ‘ predominating importance ’ , and no local association to conflict with them on the other side . |
4 | ‘ I was hoping to look at them on the plane , but they were at the bottom of the pile and I never got around to it . ’ |
5 | Having seen last year 's giant-killers Canada get a taste of their own medicine in Pool F , losing to the impressive Koreans ( 16–12 ) , Fiji soon realised that the other seeds were going to struggle to live with them on the rice-paddy pitch . |