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

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1 It follows that we see no case for placing it on the semi-statutory footing proposed by the select committee .
2 Trials for the signalling system have been accelerated as BR examines the feasibility of introducing it on the entire 11,000-mile network .
3 The engine ran smooth and strong after several hours of running it on the ground .
4 The applicants accepted that the justices had jurisdiction to make such an order but contended that they had erred in law in making it on the facts of this case .
5 So they just sort of put it on the market to see if it would sell ?
6 But I am content to rest my conclusion in rejecting it on the simple ground , which closely reflects the reasoning I have already deployed in rejecting the board 's construction of section 18 , that the words in subsection ( 2 ) ‘ an order for payment … to the unassisted party … of the costs incurred by him in the proceedings ’ can only apply to costs incurred by the unassisted party in his capacity as such .
7 He completed it about the end of 1839 , and quickly mastered the art of riding it on the rough country roads , so that he was soon accustomed to making the fourteen-mile journey to Dumfries in less than an hour .
8 It is a skilled exercise which needs careful instruction and supervision before attempting it on the approach with full airbrake .
9 We camped upriver from the falls , stalling the leap into the chasm of some of the water by boiling it on the Trangia and making it into Earl Grey tea .
10 He also hopes to exploit the Burke 's name by reproducing it on the labels of clarets , burgundies and champagnes .
11 She had not visited Jackdaw Cottage since putting it on the market two months ago .
12 He embraces suicide as deed , as the one true act in a false world , as supreme podvig , as feat to end feats , God-killing , god-making ; and in doing so he exemplifies , as others before and Ivan Karamazov after him , the truth that Dostoevsky can only satisfy his hunger for crisis and clarity by bestowing it on the enemy .
13 Allowance of the defence of truth , with the burden of proving it on the defendant , does not mean that only false speech will be deterred .
14 After crouching by it for several minutes , sifting through the contents , he uttered a triumphant ‘ Aha ! ’ and pulled out a large framed photograph , from which he blew a cloud of dust before placing it on the desk and inviting Harry to look at it .
15 Well I mean I know that twenty percent is twenty pound in a hundred , but what 's a quick way of doing it on the calculator .
16 He let his mind play with that again , the idea of making it on the box .
17 She removed his wet topcoat , and gave it a shake before hanging it on the hall-stand .
18 And he rattled a cornflake packet before setting it on the table nearest the door .
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