Example sentences of "[verb] it [adv] on " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 ‘ And it would be unfair at this stage to concentrate it exclusively on the airline . ’
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 It was a world he had relinquished with small regret and he had not expected to find it again on Larksoken headland .
8 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 .
9 He was basing it only on a recent knowledge of Trueman and the belief that his committee colleagues are capable of doing whatever it takes to preserve their ill-gotten privileges . ’
10 George Robinson , 18 , of Phoenix Road , Pennywell , Sunderland , admitted taking an F-reg Ford Sierra from the Roker Hotel car park and driving it recklessly on the A19 , A183 and various roads in Sunderland .
11 He used it more on the unknown Hoffman than on the others .
12 He was developing self-control in the classroom , but found it harder on the playground where it seemed that he was easily influenced by other children to behave badly .
13 Place it right on the edge so that the next step below the bottom is at least a couple of stories down , because even moderately sloping sections of a mountain goat cliff may have forbidding dropoffs at the base .
14 Because the money lenders were usually Brahmis , the effect of colonialism was to strengthen the caste system and place it firmly on a class basis .
15 And you place it carefully on the printing plate so there 's lots of spare paper round it because the essence of a good etching is that it has breathing space all the way round .
16 Disconnect the basin waste , lift the basin from its brackets or pedestal ( or both ) , and place it upside-down on the floor .
17 Roll out a small ball of fondant or marzipan trimmings and place it centrally on top of the roof drum to act as a support for the triangles .
18 He scrawled it quickly on the back of his card .
19 COOK 'S NOTE : To make caraque , melt about 175g/6oz plain chocolate , then spread it thickly on some baking parchment and leave to set .
20 After you have a lot , spread it evenly on the inside disk .
21 It is all up to you — and I decided that I was never going to say anything to her because I had done it all on my own .
22 It 's in Nelson Street and er I did it I 've done it once on my own like this before .
23 And then when you get to the er van proper you take things like a wardrobe and you put it edgewise on int th in against the side of the van , you 'd then put a wrapper over , and then you 'd put something soft like a mattress facing it , because obviously that 's a shiny side and if you can put something soft into it it 's not going to get scratched .
24 Murray cut a small neat slice and put it deftly on her plate .
25 put it together on a training session on this and they rely on you and perhaps talk through to the session and say look that when I say this sort of thing , will you be the person that demonstrates or gives me answer you know , this sort of thing .
26 IN MAKING float glass , molten glass is floated on molten metal , so as to smooth it perfectly on both sides .
27 And when you score a cracker of a goal , you can watch it again on the slow-motion replay ( this can be turned off ) .
28 ‘ Do n't panic again , ’ he grinned , flattening her lower arm back on the deck at right angles to her elbow , catching her other arm as she lifted it in protest , and pushing it flat on her other side .
29 Okay so we 'll do it again on Tuesday at seven o'clock .
30 I wo , I would like to go back to the days of my youth when we at Hogmanay there was usually frost and and and ice , and er we used to celebrate it partly on skates and it was great fun when you skated perhaps a mile and a half out of the town , and er er had a lovely ice festival and then we skated back and we had
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