Example sentences of "it on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It takes imagination and a lot of practice to read a play to yourself in the same time as it would take to see it on the stage . |
| 2 | And we have it on the authority of those sitting near her that she did not drink it that evening . ’ |
| 3 | At the instant of applying the excess rudder , it speeds up the outer wing-tip , creating more lift there , and gives the inner wing ‘ sweep back ’ in relation to the airflow , thus increasing the tendency to tip stall on that wing while reducing it on the other . |
| 4 | It is a skilled exercise which needs careful instruction and supervision before attempting it on the approach with full airbrake . |
| 5 | It had been so dry that two days under the warm sun had been enough without letting it stand in stooks or draping it on the hedges . |
| 6 | He had seen beyond the excitement of being approached for his first book ; he already visualised it on the bookshelves ! |
| 7 | I took off my coat quickly and tossed it on the chair in front of my desk . |
| 8 | He lift ed his picture , held it at arm 's length , considered it , replaced it on the table , rubbed out a couple of lines and carried on drawing . |
| 9 | He had put it on the draining board . |
| 10 | As I search for it on the pavement , one of the girls says , ‘ Look at the yid licking the gutters for pennies . ’ |
| 11 | The alternative to burying cable in the walls is to run it on the surface in mini-trunking , and then use surface-mounted light switches . |
| 12 | To fill the vertical joints , turn the hawk and separate off a small amount of mortar , lifting it on the underside of the trowel |
| 13 | They could n't cope either and , in desperation , literally dumped it on the doorstep . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | He was sufficiently troubled by Malcolm 's bouncer to stand frozen at the crease and take it on the helmet , but sufficiently brave to try to hook the inevitable follow-up . |
| 17 | Our suppliers buy direct from the ports , prepare and pack the fish for us and then we have it on the shelves within 24 hours . |
| 18 | Having blamed it on the Bundesbank , he can go on to talk about other things — such as sex and tax , perhaps . |
| 19 | He also hopes to exploit the Burke 's name by reproducing it on the labels of clarets , burgundies and champagnes . |
| 20 | Scott was so pleased with the style he had evolved at Battersea , a treatment that humanised industrial forms without denying their function , that he also used it on the Guinness Factory at Park Royal , west London . |
| 21 | Michael Ramsey took Eden 's letter into the chapel but knew what his answer would be even before he put it on the altar . |
| 22 | We 'd then pull out a sandwich and a cake , put it on the tray : nobody could see what they were eating , and we 'd pocket the difference . |
| 23 | So we used to take a big old transistor with us and put it on the back shelf . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | He could put it on the wall here , explains Tony . |
| 27 | The Corrado and Calibra share a basically similar suspension design — MacPherson struts at the front , trailing arms at the rear and driven front wheels — but you certainly would n't guess it on the road . |
| 28 | In Germany the privilege of driving it was handed to Mario Andretti who crashed it on the first lap . |
| 29 | I must want my head tested sorting mail all day when I could be picking up wads of it on the lorries . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ Getting it on the HP is he ? ’ |