Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] it on [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or rubbed it on each other , rather . |
| 2 | Conceptually , the inner city is a space outside society which has shown , for whatever reasons , a marked recalcitrance in responding to the macro-economic revival that surrounded it on all sides ( Massey and Meegan , 1989 ) . |
| 3 | He took off the first slice , you know the rather well-done , brown bit at the end , and laid it on one side of the serving dish and then he cut the next slice off for the first lady and so on . ’ |
| 4 | Zach and George dragged the case up to the bedroom and laid it on one side . |
| 5 | An individual who bought the FT All Share Index at 31 March 1982 and sold it on 31 August 1989 would have suffered tax ( at 40% and ignoring the annual exemption ) of 24.2% of the proceeds . |
| 6 | It was also rumoured that Lloyd George might advocate protectionist policies and Baldwin make have called the general election and fought it on protectionist policies in order to undermine any such move by Lloyd George . |
| 7 | ‘ He ripped off a firm of disreputable City stockbrokers to the tune of about a million pounds and spent it on high living — yachts , mistresses , that sort of thing . |
| 8 | A man who has slain Thomas Springall and blamed it on poor Brampton , afterwards making his death look like suicide . |
| 9 | In Sliwa 's last stunt he faked his own kidnapping and blamed it on off-duty police officers . |
| 10 | Preston , at the mouth of the River Ribble , lay roughly halfway between Lancaster and Warrington , and Forster 's horsemen reached and occupied it on 9 November , to be followed a day later by the slower-moving infantry . |