Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] it on the [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | He tried to flog it on the bus |
| 2 | He said he 'd heard it on the radio this mornin' . |
| 3 | His daughter Diane Perry said she was rung by her husband from work after he 'd heard it on the radio . |
| 4 | For answer , I picked up the newspaper from where I 'd thrown it on the desk . |
| 5 | ‘ When you 're writing stuff , these kinds of songs come out and you know you 're never going to use them seriously , but we had such a laugh when we were playing about with that one , we decided to use it on the single . |
| 6 | Almost operating on remote control he removed it , looked at it , and remembered finding it on the mat in that other house in that other life-time . |
| 7 | During the conversation Jean had brought food and had placed it on the table before Lucy , Doreen and Silas , and now the latter laid down his fork while he regarded Doreen with infinite patience . |
| 8 | She had seen it on the table on her Wednesday visit and had said : |
| 9 | ‘ I did n't know I had to put it on the meat — ’ |
| 10 | I had to put it on the floor to work the door bar and once I had it open , I slid it out with my foot . |
| 11 | And I had to put it on the seat of my bicycle , push it all the way and it 'd be a good mile from Street to right across from . |
| 12 | The only problem was that every time he let the dog off the lead it tried to provide itself with a sheep supper , so consequently he had to keep it on the lead and feed it on tins of beans , sausages , bacon and egg , which had so exhausted his stock of food that now he was living on porridge and giving the dog the rest of his sausages . |
| 13 | If I had left it on the night flying path I would have had a serious rocket which I would not have forgotten as easily as I had forgotten the first one — from the wing commander flying . |
| 14 | He had left it on the passenger seat , where it lay , legs in the air , headless rump deep in the upholstery . |
| 15 | He had n't been in the lodge since Helena Naulls had left it on the death of her husband . |
| 16 | Hosanna started to smell the debris where she had put it on the marble top of the kitchen dresser and she shouted at him so that he darted out into the yard . |
| 17 | When the envelope had arrived she had put it on the mantelpiece in the small sitting-room , but almost at once she had decided to take it more closely into her possession . |
| 18 | He told his teacher he had lost it on the way to school , and Mr Watson promptly rapped his knuckles with a ruler for his carelessness . |
| 19 | Our next meeting of our local group we refused to launch it on the day that we were doing the training , and if you 'd seen the launch yesterday it was absolutely bloody abysmal . |