Example sentences of "he [adv] [verb] it on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had seen beyond the excitement of being approached for his first book ; he already visualised it on the bookshelves ! |
| 2 | Her hand throbbed beneath his where he still trapped it on the table . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | At Cabinets on 9 , 10 and 11 December he cautiously defended it on the ground that Hoare must have known more than they did , and defended also the continuation of Hoare 's holiday , although this by then had become more of a matter of nursing than of recreation , for he had fallen on the ice and broken his nose in two places . |
| 5 | He voluntarily relinquished it on the eve of seventy , the only man of this century to have been Prime Minister three times . |
| 6 | Was it , I wondered , his natural reaction to something extraordinary , and did he therefore use it on the stage , or was he simply acting and registering what he thought was the appropriate emotion under the circumstances ? |