Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [verb] it on [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The taxpayer received it on 8 December and it was lodged in the High Court on 15 January 1991 . |
| 2 | This may lead those who would otherwise oppose the practice to defend it on cultural grounds . |
| 3 | You decide to leap over the convent wall and hightail it to England to a new life , and you have the wit to do it on early closing day . ’ |
| 4 | It was set up by the government to advise it on environmental policy . |
| 5 | The specifically indeterminate forms that inhabit the underside of misericords — birds with human heads , dragons with foliage tails — give way to bats , cats , men — on horseback or performing somersaults under the ledge to balance it on various parts of their anatomy . |