Example sentences of "[noun sg] and [verb] it on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She pulled out her warrant card and slapped it on the desk then marched out of the office , slamming the door behind her . |
| 2 | Tell your audience that you are going to spell out the names of a complete suit of cards and , each time you spell out a letter , you are going to take the top card and place it on the bottom . |
| 3 | He went to the lavatory , lifted a large tin bath off its wall hook , took it into the bedroom and placed it on the floor . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Then I got a hand bowl full of fresh sawdust from a sack in the little warehouse and sprinkled it on the clean boards . |
| 6 | Oh we used to have phosphate and sulphur , potash , coal , granite you name it anything , general cargo we 've had , loaded everything , even dead bodies , we sent , there was one young , one young person , he got drowned up the coast there and they and he had to go back to Holland and they brought that from out the warehouse and put it on the stern of our ship , his coffin , they sent that back and they erm export er pigs to Poland , all live pigs , pedigree pigs . |
| 7 | Gilly swiped the little wet paper across her mouth and dropped it on the floor . |
| 8 | She half opened her tight , thin mouth and held it on the verge of speaking . |
| 9 | Pat poured the doctor out a cup of tea and placed it on the bedside table . |
| 10 | Celia arrived with a tray of tea and placed it on the table . |
| 11 | Firstly , jump up and collect the shield , then go left , jump on the platform to your left and then the platform on your right , grab the weight , climb the right wall and throw the weight on the switch , jump/fly up onto the block on the wall , go left and cross the gap on the swing , fly up two platforms and run right , go under the guillotine , jump up the pipe and collect a weight , walk left and fall off the last platform , throw the weight on the switch , go left and use the fly to climb up the platform , take the weight and throw it on the switch above you . |
| 12 | Then , using a two pronged transfer tool , pick up just the end stitch and put it on the end needle ( 1 ) . |
| 13 | When the retention of 59 was announced , the Gazette responded : ‘ Sometime in the future , it may be possible to resurrect the old car and parade it on the Promenade as a specimen of what people in Blackpool used to enjoy travelling on ’ . |
| 14 | Now the Wye 's the only major river in England where anyone can bring a boat and put it on the water without any form of licence . |
| 15 | The Kitchens are in New York for the first time , because last August , A&M America heard their just-completed second album and bought it on the spot . |
| 16 | He brings the teddy bear and sits it on the windowsill where it can watch us . |
| 17 | Emmie took the tray and put it on the floor . |
| 18 | He frowned , pulled the napkin from his lap and laid it on the table as he stood up , shrugging apologetically to his mother , seeming to indicate that it was the kind of thing that had happened before , from time to time . |
| 19 | I 'll just shove it through the window and put it on the desk . |
| 20 | T. B. You had to see what they were passing through and you had to have a chit and you had to time this chit and sign it and then you went to the hut and put it on the spike . |
| 21 | I cut out the caption and stuck it on the cover of my French notebook . |
| 22 | all it was was a box really , a box which you could get off a , a , a machine and dump it on the ground , erm the idea came from , from er I think dustcarts really , where , where you could sort of tip them up and , and they 'd empty , and that , that was this early thought on it er |
| 23 | ‘ Well , then — ’ Alice walked across the kitchen to the open fireplace and , bending towards the oven at the side of it , she opened the door and took out a casserole dish and placed it on the table before she went on , ‘ If that 's how you 're feeling I think it 's about time you got yourself married . ’ |
| 24 | She explains : ‘ I take a very deep breath before I get on the plane and then as soon as I am on board I get out all my make-up and put it on the table in front of me and spend hours putting it on . |
| 25 | Taking the purple book off the pillow and laying it on the floor , he had tried to think logically . |
| 26 | He took the flare from its bracket and laid it on the top of the trap-door . |
| 27 | In the morning erm we got some bread and put it on the window and came down and we caught it and put it out again . |
| 28 | Alan snatched up an osier basket and hung it on the cockerel 's rusty head to hide it . |
| 29 | The teacher then took a length of string , cut it to the height of the child and laid it on the ground on top of the shadow of Leanne . |
| 30 | Nathan closed the folder and laid it on the starched tablecloth . |