Example sentences of "[verb] it on the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But again , it is up to each manager to make the final decision , basing it on the best available advice . |
| 2 | Then take a second card from the middle pile and place it on the other outside pile . |
| 3 | You 'd be well advised not to overdo it on the old liquid refreshment , however , as the return leg beside the river involves crossing an awful lot of stiles . |
| 4 | The school seemed cold and it was certainly dark for the main windows faced north and tall buildings surrounded it on the other three sides . |
| 5 | Um well we did n't know what to do with the money , so we basically gambled it on the Grand National . |
| 6 | Roland drew his breath in minor shock : Maud said , ‘ Oh , the dolls ’ — and Sir George brought his light back from a blank mirror entwined with gilded roses and focused it on the three rigid figures , semi-recumbent under a dusty counterpane , in a substantial if miniature four-poster bed . |
| 7 | Using the striped ribbon technique , make a small gift tag and lay it on the small red parcel with a white twisted ribbon to secure . |
| 8 | For almost the whole of their walk their objective had been in sight : the green copper cupola of the soaring campanile of Arthur Blomfield 's extraordinary Romanesque basilica , built in 1870 on the bank of this sluggish urban waterway with as much confidence as if he had erected it on the Venetian Grand Canal . |
| 9 | ‘ Boyz N The Hood ’ has grossed over $50 million ( and still counting ) at the American box office , putting it on the top ten releases of the summer . |
| 10 | When we 're using the fax facility and we get a series of policy numbers and a problem coming through to us erm that 's not so bad cos that 's being amalgamated by the branch secretaries , when it 's going back , and we do it on the same one single fax going back , they 're sitting there snipping up individual replies , you know putting individual replies into consultants ' baskets unless they photocopy the whole sheet in which case they 've got a confidentiality problem . |
| 11 | Sorry to be so vague , darling , but blame it on the unreliable British climate . |