Example sentences of "them [adv] on the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | So basically all I would have to do is take them with me and I 'd bring them home on the same day . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | To win this great prize just spot the ten differences between the two cartoons , mark them clearly on the right hand cartoon . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . ’ |
| 8 | Drain thoroughly and then slice them thinly on the diagonal . |
| 9 | ‘ He 's already appeared with them on TV — and ca n't wait to team up with them again on the big screen . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |