Example sentences of "[vb past] it on [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a royal monopoly , and an earlier King Arkesilas is depicted on a Spartan vase of the mid-sixth century supervising his officials as they weighed it on a man-size balance ( Chamoux , Cyrene , plate vi . |
| 2 | ‘ The Yorkshire Evening Post ( YEP ) used it on the front page with a by-line . |
| 3 | He found it on the far side , punched the red button and watched the big metal doors start to move . |
| 4 | ‘ I found it on the barbed wire . |
| 5 | He considered it more dangerous than any horse he had ever ridden , and drove it on a tight rein , seldom exceeding 35 m.p.h . |
| 6 | The vermouth was dark red , and I wondered what my mother would do if I poured it on the mushroom-coloured carpet — very slowly . |
| 7 | In developing the character of Frank Spencer from Raymond Allen 's scripts , he partly based it on a young man with bicycle clips whom he had seen in Battersea . |
| 8 | Cromwell 's foreign policy has been called out-of-date , because he based it on the bellicose anti-Catholic and anti-Spanish feeling of the reign of Elizabeth . |
| 9 | He hit the ball left to right and he shaped it on the left-hand side on a sand dune , but it dropped in the dune on top of a hillock . |
| 10 | The medal was handed to her on a velvet cushion and she bent down and hung it on a little hook with which we had each been provided on arrival . |
| 11 | Wesley made little progress with agricultural labourers because they were tied into the rigidities of the traditional social order , although he blamed it on the stolid stupidity of the peasantry , but in many mining and manufacturing villages Methodism throve . |
| 12 | I followed it on a snug rope and pronounced it ‘ gripping but mild ’ , but then again , it 's always easy on the blunt end . |
| 13 | Searching round for where she 'd put her champagne glass , she discovered it on a wrought-iron table behind her . |
| 14 | Even if I 'd told you that I heard it on the local news , I doubt you 'd have taken my word for it . |
| 15 | Then I remembered that , in the car was the last red rose from Bayeux — I placed it on the rough ground outside the house , and prayed for the family whose happy , safe home it had once been . |
| 16 | He removed his straw hat and placed it on the empty chair beside him . |
| 17 | She took some bread from the pantry cupboard and placed it on the wooden table . |
| 18 | You 're getting the feel of the machine … ooops … nearly lost it on a dry road ! |
| 19 | Flavia , looking from an upper window , saw it , saw it on the exact spot where she had first seen Michel , experienced confusion , incredulous joy , a pang . |
| 20 | If your exercise programme has lapsed it is time you reinstated it on a regular basis . |
| 21 | With some care he selected a Zchloty leaden quarter-iotum and balanced it on a purple thumbnail . |
| 22 | Clare levered the coins off the counter , and carried her cup out into the small enclosure , where she balanced it on an unsteady iron table , her feet cushioned by a carpet of litter . |
| 23 | There was a ditch the other side of it , which should present no problems provided they met it on the right stride . |
| 24 | I flung it on the open ledger on the table . |
| 25 | Alice set down the case and violin and wiped her face on her sleeve , wiped it on the rough wool sleeve of her winter coat . |
| 26 | Disengaging his bleeding hand , Angel One wiped it on the quivering hide of his latest victim . |
| 27 | He took her protesting hand , and laid it on a thick roll of tablecloths between their bodies . |
| 28 | Nathan closed the folder and laid it on the starched tablecloth . |
| 29 | Jehan pulled his tunic over his head , and he laid it on the empty stool to his right . |
| 30 | " I could n't possibly afford the flat if I were renting it now , but I got it on a long lease just after the war , when rents were much less than they are today , " she said . |