Example sentences of "[prep] it on [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You know so when you 're confirmed , it wo n't be , okay I 'm on the boat now , it will be making use of those gifts , whatever they may be , and they 'll be uniquely your own in each one , the mix 'll be uni uniquely you know , to the person , you 'll have to make use of it on a daily basis , not just simply , okay I 'm on the boat . |
| 2 | They both took lookout positions on opposite sides of the roof , and although Charlie could still hear the sound of the battle , he was quite unable to make out who was getting the better of it on the other side of the forest . |
| 3 | I 've felt for sometime we needed to put more pressure on Welsh Office ministers who I feel are having a pretty easy time of it on the environmental front . |
| 4 | In addition , the deal covering the Walter-Guillaume donation ( handled by Jacques Walter after his father 's accidental death ) implied that the international nature of his own private collection — his right to dispose of it on the international market in other words — should be respected and the French State show itself ‘ worthy ’ of the gift . |
| 5 | Over a quarter of a century , most of it on the front bench . |
| 6 | Did you catch any of it on the local telly ? ’ |
| 7 | Raskolnikov uses the blade of his axe on her , whereas he has just used the back of it on the older woman , crushing her skull . |
| 8 | When the chicken leg is cooked , cook the stuffing by the side of it on the same plate , according to the instructions on the packet . |
| 9 | Shearson Lehman analyst David Readerman , who raised his Microsoft rating to a ‘ strong buy ’ following the court ruling , said the company could easily adapt its Windows programme if the judge ruled against it on the remaining issues . |
| 10 | ‘ In future cases where a new regime comes to power unconstitutionally our attitude on the question of whether it qualifies to be treated as a government , will be left to be inferred from the nature of the dealings , if any , which we may have with it , and in particular on whether we are dealing with it on a normal government to government basis . |
| 11 | In the 1960s and 1970s the Standing Conference on University Entrance tried to deal with it on a large-scale basis but repeated efforts to bring about improvements of connection amounted to little . |
| 12 | By early June the failure of an inquiry by Sir Edward Clark and of a group of ministers headed by Lloyd George to persuade the employers to agree to recognise the Federation and to negotiate with it on a joint board , began to bring nearer the prospect that the Transport Workers ' Federation National Executive would implement a recommendation by its Annual Conference that unless the joint board proposal was accepted a national strike would be declared . |
| 13 | ‘ I could see you grappling with it on a daily basis , ’ he drawled softly . |
| 14 | But then there were the terns getting away with it on the other side of the window . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ We shall see how we deal with it on the next album , ’ Colin concludes . |
| 16 | Unlike its Scottish namesake , Leven is not by the sea but six miles from it on the main Beverley to Bridlington road , 14 miles from Bridlington and six miles from Hornsea . |
| 17 | Local transport : Lake steamers , car ferries and hydro foils ply across the lake , while buses drive round it on a regular basis . |
| 18 | Clearly , however , the disputed collectorship was creating an unusually good opportunity for the enemies of the Montrose interest to split that interest and thus prepare the way for an attack upon it on a future occasion . |
| 19 | It was a Madonna one and it had a bit of other stuff on it on the other side . |
| 20 | But when it is dumped unceremoniously before you with a mound of inappropriate green peas and a pool of cold tartare sauce spreading beside it on the hot plate , then your appetite begins to seep away … |
| 21 | Kyle of Lochalsh is the next port of call , and the way to it from Plockton returns to the T-junction at Duirinish , turns along its main street and skirts the next village of Drumbuie , scene of a great hullabaloo two decades ago when a proposal to construct an oilrig installation off-shore was repulsed by spirited opposition , a home subsequently being found for it on an uninhabited shore of Loch Kishorn . |
| 22 | Now , new offices were being built for it on the other side of the road , but they were not quite ready , and meantime , the new publisher from the East and his editors functioned in an atmosphere of such utter confusion that it is doubtful if an efficiency expert could even have fought his way in through the door . |
| 23 | ‘ Did he say anything about it on a subsequent occasion ? , |
| 24 | He had drowned , unable to move , when the rising tide had filled the channel : Marie remembered seeing about it on the local television news . |
| 25 | well you drive through it on the main road and it goes both sides of the road |
| 26 | I think on that , looking at it on a logical basis , er , I think our stuff will take up one third of the boot |
| 27 | To look at it on a comparable basis . |
| 28 | So when you look at it on a yearly basis and a compare it to what it was a few years ago , Yes it 's gone up a lot . |
| 29 | I have come across it on the American networks , where all script conferences are attended by a legal-looking chap whose only contribution is to say ’ We do not want to offend any groups ’ from time to time . |
| 30 | In its aftermath Mrs Thatcher apparently took greater care to consult the Cabinet more fully and was overruled by it on the proposed sale of British Leyland to the US-based General Motors . |