Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] it on the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In my judgment , this draft having been sent to the plaintiffs by Sir Richard Temple , and retained and cashed by them , we ought to draw the conclusion that the plaintiff , who kept and cashed the draft , agreed to accept it on the terms upon which it was sent … . |
| 2 | He tried to flog it on the bus |
| 3 | He said : ‘ I am doing it my way and if I am to be able to beat Alain Prost I want to do it on the track by out-driving him , not by any other means . |
| 4 | I want to get it on the market as soon as possible . ’ |
| 5 | All this is so rich , heady and fast-moving that the viewer has to take it on the narrator 's trust . |
| 6 | When all is said and done , the attraction of earning a living playing a sport you enjoy is a strong one and it is not hard to understand why some players have to try to make it on the Tour . |
| 7 | ‘ She did n't want to discuss it on the phone , that 's all I know . |
| 8 | Indeed , the national is often a concept used deliberately to conceal conflict over the issues , to force one kind of unity around an existing status quo ( and if the arguments do not achieve unity , troops can be used to enforce it on the recalcitrants ) . |
| 9 | We 're talking about a lot of money here , that has been spent , and has continued to be spent , and the sooner we get it sorted out the better , and I 'd like to see it on the agenda of the next budget review committee , which would prior to the policy committee , I believe next , and so we could perhaps augment er , Mr 's report with some findings of our own . |
| 10 | I was going to write it on the board for you |
| 11 | IBM Corp was scheduled to make an ‘ operational announcement ’ on its Adstar storage business in San Jose just after we closed on Friday , but we have to assume that it was not anything sufficiently dramatic that it would move the share price , otherwise the company would have had to announce it on the New York Stock Exchange before the market opened to prevent a false market operating in the shares ; the announcement was to be made by vice-chairman Jack Kuehler , and was also to include some personnel news ; IBM has been studying ways to separate Adstar from the rest of the company , Dow Jones & Co notes , and earlier this year , it hired Morgan Stanley & Co and the Boston Consulting Group to recommend ways to speed up the process , which could involve outside investors or a new class of IBM share — and those advisors were scheduled to be done with the preliminary work by now ; a first step would likely be the creation of Adstar as a wholly-owned subsidiary — it has kept separate books since last year ; but the IBM spokesman said some observers might be surprised by the announcement , which was to be concerned with Adstar 's ‘ operations as an IBM business unit and its future direction . ’ |
| 12 | they still leave you room to put it on the bottom of the thing and I just scrubbed that . |
| 13 | The only other er notice I 've got for you is that tomorrow I forgot to put it on the notices tomorrow we 've got a lot of visitors in school there 's about er thirty five of them coming over who are likely to be joining us in the lower sixth next September er lessons with the lower sixth to find out what erm what lessons are like you know okay . |
| 14 | ‘ We 're going to put it on the poster , Wes . |
| 15 | ’ Clearly , Adam was only reluctantly willing to share his plans with his parents , ‘ Since you ask , I 'm going to go down and take a look at it as soon as I can and then I 'm going to put it on the market . ’ |
| 16 | I manage to knock it on the floor , where the unwrapped chocs go on a neighbourhood tour . |
| 17 | There is talk of a film of The Factory Whistle , with Alan Bates , and they are going to read it on the BBC too . |
| 18 | credit approvals now get taken up so quickly because the government does n't let much money borrow erm much money to be borrowed parish councils unfortunately so we need to do it fairly urgently if we 're going to get it on the list , I think the list is already about ten parish councils long . |
| 19 | She said do well you do n't need any forms , cos it 's only you , we 're only going to alter it on the computer |
| 20 | only going to alter it on the computer anyway . |
| 21 | look , you 're going to have it on the floor , will you hold it up straight please or I might have to scream , shall I scream ? , it 's alright Richard he did n't spill any |
| 22 | ‘ That 's the whole point — regardless , Miss Everett , that both you and I know that you 're never going to marry him anyway , Travis , who cares deeply for his family , ’ as you do , Leith could well have inserted , ‘ is only going to take it on the chin and let you go , by learning that the person you do love is a member of his family , who loves you in return . ’ |
| 23 | And they were going to throw it on the scrap heap but somebody in the mill the said , that was the bicycle that Adam had made . |
| 24 | That is what we intend to do and we intend to do it on the basis of the criteria erm that we have set out . |
| 25 | I like to put it on the table and hear the comments afterwards , and I 'm pleased to bits if it 's been all right … |
| 26 | It takes imagination and a lot of practice to read a play to yourself in the same time as it would take to see it on the stage . |
| 27 | They may try to nail it on the perch again but nobody will believe it is still alive . |
| 28 | ‘ When you 're writing stuff , these kinds of songs come out and you know you 're never going to use them seriously , but we had such a laugh when we were playing about with that one , we decided to use it on the single . |
| 29 | ‘ You 'll have to get it on the loudspeaker when it 's Jazz 's turn to go , ’ Uncle Bean said . |
| 30 | Suddenly he 'd arch his back like a twig in a furnace , scraping his stockinged feet for purchase , then take his head in both hands and try to smash it on the floor , only prevented by the cushions . |