Example sentences of "[verb] it [adv] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | He took the unravelling length of fabric from her and expertly refolded it , depositing it back on the stall . |
| 2 | The best test of hay is to buy a bale before you buy a truck-load , and to try it out on your horse or horses . |
| 3 | We have still to try it out on relations between persons . |
| 4 | She could n't catch it up on her bike , that was certain . |
| 5 | The Citation , at the most vulnerable time of any flight , now had full forward power hurling it upwards on its left side and full reverse power dragging it downwards on its right side . |
| 6 | and Ken we used to write it down on a bit of paper who had what and who owed what and |
| 7 | Badoglio lost no time in advancing on the capital , Addis Ababa — from which the Emperor , Haile Selassie , had already fled to Britain — and entered it triumphantly on 5 May 1936 . |
| 8 | From 10 or 20 yards you can sometimes force the ball directly into the bank , the first jump taking it almost vertically upwards and landing it softly on the edge of the green . |
| 9 | You 've got to work it out on the basis of ten miles not on the basis of five miles . |
| 10 | So , sure , we do need rote-learning , we do need to be able to say ‘ Three times four is twelve ’ , we must n't have to work it out on our fingers . |
| 11 | They 'll accept it and put send it through on the nod if we can get his support . |
| 12 | A company enters into a sale and finance leaseback agreement with its pension fund , to sell the fund the company 's headquarters at its current fair market value and then lease it back on a 25 year finance lease . |
| 13 | Patrick began by blunt cutting the ends then , after blow-drying , he pulled the hair into a high ponytail which he lightly backcombed before splaying it out on the top of the head . |
| 14 | ‘ And it would be unfair at this stage to concentrate it exclusively on the airline . ’ |
| 15 | Or alternately if it was n't then we would discuss it again on the Thursday and if it was a failure to agree situation , then we just registered failure to agree with the management . |
| 16 | At each end are two women : young one , lying on front and side , half-wrapped in her mantle as a blanket and beginning to pull it up on her shoulder as a dress while she lifts herself to look towards the centre ; and an old one with cropped hair , a slave , fully dressed , beginning to get to her knees . |
| 17 | She felt Adam 's ribs swell suddenly as he took in a huge breath ; he thrust her away from him , seized hold of the roof slab as if to pull it down on top of them ; and screamed . |
| 18 | The cigarette glowed again in the dark , and he hitched himself up on one elbow and ground it out on the earth . |
| 19 | Its one and only race was 1966 British Grand Prix where Trevor Taylor lined it up on 18th place on the grid and retired during the very first lap . |
| 20 | We are standing in that kitchen where I 've shared her meals and laughter , and she finishes drying the glass and places it carefully on the table . |
| 21 | Now I 've well I 'm trading it in on Saturday night . |
| 22 | Elderly patients cower in terror as two nurses battle it out on a ward ! |
| 23 | you do is hang it over on the clothes line , stand back a few inches , just give it an even spray , |
| 24 | I did all that and you 're gon na hang it out on the line . |
| 25 | It 's a bright idea , brought up by thought up by somebody , writes it down on back of envelope , whacks it into the legislation without proper thought . |
| 26 | A great formula has been known to appear to a scientist ready-made in a dream as though he were a Siberian shaman , but unlike the shaman he accepts it not on the authority of the dream but because afterwards it satisfies his most stringent tests . |
| 27 | It was a world he had relinquished with small regret and he had not expected to find it again on Larksoken headland . |
| 28 | She Sellotaped it back on . |
| 29 | Similarly , the co-ordination of the LINK scheme by the Office of Science and Technology ( OST ) will hopefully focus it more on the needs of SMEs and therefore enhance their participation . |
| 30 | He kindly but firmly remonstrates with his wife : " Paying the debt " has a clear double meaning in the sexual/conjugal context which the wife , who is made to respond to her husband 's ignorance not by laughing at him but rather by underlining his innocence/ignorance in a play of irony for the tale 's readers/listeners to respond to as they think fit , picks up upon and develops into a crude pun : " " taille " " here is polysemous , reflecting two homonyms , taille , " tally , bill " , whereby line 416 reads : " I am your wife ; notch it up on my account " |