Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [verb] it on the " in BNC.

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1 Still tied together with the strands of wool we moved towards the fence intending to drape it on the wire .
2 They arrived at a place where the river was fast and deep , and Angel started to cross it on the narrow footbridge , still holding Tess .
3 ‘ Now that buyers have seen it on the Paris catwalks , it 's appearing again on the high street .
4 The profession 's eagerness for scientific advance had impaled it on the horns of a dilemma , forcing an unnatural choice between science and morality .
5 The reader who has bought your book has bought it on the understanding that this is what will happen .
6 All this is so rich , heady and fast-moving that the viewer has to take it on the narrator 's trust .
7 The bill was passed by the House by 273 votes to 154 ; the Senate had approved it on the previous day by 62 votes to 34 .
8 He had n't been in the lodge since Helena Naulls had left it on the death of her husband .
9 ‘ Shirley says the Gresham 's buyer likes to see it on the wall when he visits .
10 Like Malone , Anderson has laid it on the line to his players .
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