Example sentences of "i [verb] it on [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 I flung it on the open ledger on the table .
2 " I could n't possibly afford the flat if I were renting it now , but I got it on a long lease just after the war , when rents were much less than they are today , " she said .
3 Oh I got it on the bloody Saturday did n't I !
4 I found it on the barbed wire .
5 I want it on the biting edge between ‘ is n't it hysterically funny ? ’ and ‘ is n't it absolutely unbearably awful ? ’ it 's the working class ploy , or disabled ploy , that you joke about adversity .
6 I agree with what you 're saying but when I 've done it before and involved the pupil in such a report I put it on a separate sheet , so that
7 So , I put it on the other way round this morning and he hates it , I 've only just done it
8 So I put it on the dim switch so as he can see to get in the bedroom .
9 That used to be a completely different tune ; I had the lyrics , but I played it on an open tuned National , then when I got the Strat and plugged it into an old Fender Vibrolux amp , it became what it became on record .
10 Will I do it on the other side ?
11 The vermouth was dark red , and I wondered what my mother would do if I poured it on the mushroom-coloured carpet — very slowly .
12 I followed it on a snug rope and pronounced it ‘ gripping but mild ’ , but then again , it 's always easy on the blunt end .
13 Even if I 'd told you that I heard it on the local news , I doubt you 'd have taken my word for it .
14 Then I remembered that , in the car was the last red rose from Bayeux — I placed it on the rough ground outside the house , and prayed for the family whose happy , safe home it had once been .
15 I do n't do it on that , I do it on a big blackboard
16 If I had it on a solid floor , but it 's got ta go , do n't forget it 's on a a wooden floor .
17 I had it on a little bit of elastic band and I 've , I 've lost it .
18 When I have found my tension I write it on a adhesive label and stick this on the inside of the cone , catching the tail end of yarn to the label at the same time .
19 I 'm explaining why I wanted it on a regular arrangement so that I would n't have to be annoying you when you 're … well , when you 've had a drink I suppose . ’
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