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

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1 she was smoking like that so I made her a cup of tea took it in and put it on the stool .
2 Right , I got a cheque in my pocket made out to pay cash so she said you can go in and cash it on the counter .
3 Of course , the result was , anybody watching you timed how long it took to go from the Dock gate to sign in and put it on the spike .
4 But in that case you just take a piece of new paper and put the down and put it on the clip .
5 Said it 's electric , I 'm just going to unplug it and bring it down and put it on the work top .
6 I could tell he was pleased with himself but a bit scared , just like when he used to keep the half-crown Father gave him on Sundays , rather than put it on the collection plate .
7 The owner of the estate , American John Kluge , agreed in principle to sell the estate to the crown rather than put it on the open market , but he did not consider the resulting offer to be high enough .
8 She took his beaker away and placed it on the balcony wall .
9 Go right across two platforms and catch the lift , go up on the lift and go left , take the weight and continue left , throw the weight onto the person , go left , up , up the pipe , take the weight , go right and throw it on the button , go up on the lift and go left , go up , take the weight , throw it on the person and fly up the pipe , go left , take the weight , go right and fall down the wall , go left , throw the weight on the button .
10 I took off my coat quickly and tossed it on the chair in front of my desk .
11 Kate pulled her coat off and put it on the banisters .
12 They 're trying to pick it off and doing it on the big grass .
13 The Doctor took his hat off and placed it on the floor in the centre of the junction .
14 He took his bowler hat off and placed it on the chest .
15 ( Constanza has a habit of slipping it off and placing it on the table in front of her .
16 But we had to choose , early on , which side we belonged to , and children have to come down on the side that brings the food home and gets it on the table .
17 He closed the book at once and put it on the bedside table .
18 He filled the kettle carefully and set it on the gas stove but in spite of his care he slopped water .
19 So takes it up and knits it on the back .
20 Then probably , if the weather was fine the next day or two , we would go and drag-rake it up with another horse in a drag-rake ; and then rake it all up and put it on the cock .
21 It occurs in a book called The Scots Week-end , published by the Carswells in the late 1930s , and crying out for some other publisher to take it up and put it on the market , where it would be grabbed by many eager Scots .
22 Could you just take the carrycot up and put it on the floor ?
23 You 've only got to bag it up and put it on the side of the road .
24 They 're one point eight G L Estate F reg , four thousand , two hundred , that 's A B C D E , five year 's difference , done four thousand , two hundred , two , eight hundred quid , well actually it 's , our cars worth over a grand if I 'd sprayed it up and put it on the market
25 Erm but er I hope you 're not going to way that er Westminster Council has gone , for each er er er , er er th their property into disrepair they bought it up , do it up and flog it on the open market when a few yards away there are people no a er now sleeping under bridges and canals !
26 Turning from the window , Polly picked her bag up and opened it on the desk .
27 twisted , warped , it 's in a sense it 's exactly the same as the circle , you know you draw the circle it 's a line that starts there and goes perfectly round and comes back to the starting point , it 's exactly the same as that , but it 's been pushed out at the edges , it 's been dented in here , it 's not recognisable now as that same circle , although it 's what it is , and you see what , what has happened is although we 've sinned , although we 've come short of God 's plan , God has n't destroyed the whole thing , he could so easily just taken up the human life and crumple it up and thrown it on the heap , said finished with them , ca n't be bothered , I 'll start all over again with new people , I 'll have a new creation , well he did have a new creation , but he kept that same creation , he said I 'm gon na work on it , I 'm gon na do something with it , I 'm gon na restore it , I 'm gon na ransom it , I 'm gon na redeem it , I 'm gon na make it again , not just like it was , but I 'm gon na make it even more wonderful and more beautiful .
28 That evening one of the Corporals made me clean out the crow 's cage ; I lifted the large black bird out and parked it on the gravel beside a flowerbed .
29 Helen picked it out and dropped it on the floor ; beneath was a tangle of string .
30 I liked that picture so Marie let me cut it out and stick it on the wall .
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