Example sentences of "[vb past] it on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was in a fix — he had bought two papers and merged them together , and I was n't around , I was in New York , and I did the logo for him in a hurry , but I did n't have time to design a newspaper , nor was it the kind of thing for which he could pay a big design fee , so he described it on the phone and then he faxed me some pages of the existing papers , and I said well what you have to do is look at the old London Times and do that . |
| 2 | She took a playful swipe at his face , but Harvey caught it on the flat of his hand , then she struck at him with the palm of the other hand and they did a pat-a-cake routine . |
| 3 | Just had one jumped over the side from us once and swamp ashore again and we caught it on the on the land again and put it away . |
| 4 | I seen it on the News — |
| 5 | In Germany the privilege of driving it was handed to Mario Andretti who crashed it on the first lap . |
| 6 | I think they mentioned it on the video . |
| 7 | We approached it on the basis of er , collecting information on the Children in Need definition which a , er , a paper came before you when the Children 's Act was implemented , and that gives local discretion to authorities to , to define Children in need . |
| 8 | Scott was so pleased with the style he had evolved at Battersea , a treatment that humanised industrial forms without denying their function , that he also used it on the Guinness Factory at Park Royal , west London . |
| 9 | ‘ The Yorkshire Evening Post ( YEP ) used it on the front page with a by-line . |
| 10 | I always used it on the tongue or used dexies and black bombers , y'know , swallowed pills and things . |
| 11 | We used it on the ship , to keep the chickens ' food in . |
| 12 | Miss Menzies had filled it with petrol on the Friday afternoon and used it on the Monday morning . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Then I tried it on the pasture , but that was a bit rough , so I thought I would ride it down the new road through the iron gate leading out of my land . |
| 15 | ‘ I found it on the barbed wire . |
| 16 | Someone 's phoned in to say they found it on the grass . |
| 17 | He found it on the far side , punched the red button and watched the big metal doors start to move . |
| 18 | He found it on the last day of 1869 under nearly twenty feet of sand . |
| 19 | He found it on the floor by the armchair , rinsed it , poured it halffull of milk . |
| 20 | I knew roughly what I was looking for and I found it on the floor under a seat frame from which the seat had been removed . |
| 21 | We found it on the ice outside the North Bastion tower , yet you said you were in the city all night . ’ |
| 22 | They found it on the corner of Bread Street , a narrow , two-storeyed tenement with a shop below and living quarters above . |
| 23 | We found it on the back . |
| 24 | you found it on the bus did n't ya ? |
| 25 | She examined it for a moment , then squeezed it between thumb and fingernail and dropped it on the floor . |
| 26 | Gilly swiped the little wet paper across her mouth and dropped it on the floor . |
| 27 | He dropped it on the floor and Jess kicked it out of the way . |
| 28 | For a moment , I thought he was going to hit me with the shoe ; then he dropped it on the floor and began to pull at my clothes . |
| 29 | Charlotte put it in Emily 's hands , but after a moment Emily dropped it on the floor . |
| 30 | Helen picked it out and dropped it on the floor ; beneath was a tangle of string . |