Example sentences of "he [verb] [verb] it on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He tried to flog it on the bus |
| 2 | Prison does that to some men , though , he 'd heard it on a documentary . |
| 3 | He said he 'd heard it on the radio this mornin' . |
| 4 | His daughter Diane Perry said she was rung by her husband from work after he 'd heard it on the radio . |
| 5 | He offered to sell it on the Keele campus . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | For almost the whole of their walk their objective had been in sight : the green copper cupola of the soaring campanile of Arthur Blomfield 's extraordinary Romanesque basilica , built in 1870 on the bank of this sluggish urban waterway with as much confidence as if he had erected it on the Venetian Grand Canal . |
| 8 | His father was very proud of his house because he had built it on a bit of land at Low Fields and did quite a lot of the construction work himself , with the help of his bachelor brother , Tommy . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | He had put it on the draining board . |
| 11 | He had left it on the passenger seat , where it lay , legs in the air , headless rump deep in the upholstery . |
| 12 | erm he 's been in it twenty years and er he 's had it on the market for some time . |