Example sentences of "them [adv] on the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's very good good erm good thing for the party and they 're usually quite starved of practical campaigning ideas and so we regularly try every at least every year to go and do a tour and erm we 've been giving them we we 're trying to rope them in on the various activities because they 're crying out for |
| 2 | He reached towards her with his strong hands and pressed them down on the fine-boned structure of her shoulders , massaging with rhythmic , kneading movements . |
| 3 | After making each man check that his own line was securely attached , he moved them to the far end of the cage and sat them down on the wooden bench . |
| 4 | If you are using guitar machine heads ( far more easily adjusted than pegs , which also require special tools to fit them accurately ) it is more convenient to modify the shape of the head and fit them only on the left ( if you are right-handed ) in the manner of Fender guitars . |
| 5 | So basically all I would have to do is take them with me and I 'd bring them home on the same day . |
| 6 | The manipulations performed may include arithmetic operations on some of these character strings , but we will probably wish to do them directly on the decimal digits , rather than convert to and from binary for each arithmetic operation . |
| 7 | He has , to switch metaphors , grabbed by the throat the Tories ' controversial team of young election campaign advisers , shaken them vigorously , and hung them up on the nearest meat hook . |
| 8 | He took the tins of food through to the lean-to and piled them up on the draining board . |
| 9 | Soilless composts will do very well as they are , keeping them slightly on the dry side , but be very careful , as such composts take a long time to dry out but then do so completely with alarming rapidity , and are exceedingly difficult to wet through to the centre of the root-ball . |
| 10 | To win this great prize just spot the ten differences between the two cartoons , mark them clearly on the right hand cartoon . |
| 11 | Still , he created two characters in The Lord of the Rings of particular suggestiveness , both of them originally on the right side but seduced or corroded by evil , and so especially likely to have analogues in the real world : these are Denethor and Saruman , each of them seen faintly satirically , almost politically . |
| 12 | Then the company puts them back on the same job and they further injure themselves . |
| 13 | Maybe that 'll bring them back on the next plane . ’ |
| 14 | They agreed to phase them out on the same timetable applying in their own countries , and faster than required by the Montreal Protocol ( the international agreement on protecting the ozone layer — see ED 52 ] . |
| 15 | It can hardly be of great value to them out on the open ocean where they spend the bulk of their time , except perhaps to detect the stench of a floating carcass on which they might feed . |
| 16 | An ordinary pack ; a Tarot pack ; she spread them out on the polished mahogany . |
| 17 | Banning unofficial action will put individual workers entirely at the mercy of unscrupulous employers who will be able to dismiss them selectively on the slightest pretext , without any right of appeal . ’ |
| 18 | Drain thoroughly and then slice them thinly on the diagonal . |
| 19 | You stick them round on the old er airer in front of the open fire . |
| 20 | ‘ He 's already appeared with them on TV — and ca n't wait to team up with them again on the big screen . ’ |
| 21 | The power of the platform 's weapons and the threat they posed was enough to give anyone pause for thought , but now they appeared somehow more lethal because they were unseen — concealed behind gunports which had been engineered to such fine tolerances that Rostov could detect no hint of them anywhere on the curved metal skin . |