Example sentences of "he [verb] it on the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jehan pulled his tunic over his head , and he laid it on the empty stool to his right . |
| 2 | But Rutherford hooked well , Crowe provided several of his best cover-drives , the groundstaff captured a dog before it could interfere with play , and Tufnell 's effort to prevent a boundary by slide-tackling the ball had the same result as when he tried it on the same ground a year ago : four . |
| 3 | He found it on the far side , punched the red button and watched the big metal doors start to move . |
| 4 | He found it on the last day of 1869 under nearly twenty feet of sand . |
| 5 | Cromwell 's foreign policy has been called out-of-date , because he based it on the bellicose anti-Catholic and anti-Spanish feeling of the reign of Elizabeth . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |