Example sentences of "and [verb] it on [num] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 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 . ’
2 Zach and George dragged the case up to the bedroom and laid it on one side .
3 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 .
4 Then split the cards face down into three different piles and take a card from the middle pile and place it on one side of the outside piles .
5 I think she should mentally wrap him in a parcel , tie it tight with string and put it on one side for the moment .
6 First crack the whole code and keep it on one side .
7 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 .
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