Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] it on " in BNC.
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| 1 | In my judgment , this draft having been sent to the plaintiffs by Sir Richard Temple , and retained and cashed by them , we ought to draw the conclusion that the plaintiff , who kept and cashed the draft , agreed to accept it on the terms upon which it was sent … . |
| 2 | ‘ He tried to unload it on me , ’ said Gareth Holmroyd . |
| 3 | He tried to flog it on the bus |
| 4 | The Copts will say we tried to put it on him and the Moslems will say we let him off . ’ |
| 5 | Newman had kept the conversation general , fending Evelyn off when she tried to bring it on a more personal basis . |
| 6 | Lord Denning sought to avoid it on a number of occasions , the most notable case being Davis v. Johnson [ 1978 ] 2 WLR 182 ( CA ) . |
| 7 | He said make-up was all very well for some people , but he hated to see it on girls who were n't the right type — implying I suppose , that I ought to wear woollen stockings and teach in a Sunday school ! |
| 8 | ‘ I happened to see it on my way back from the nursing-home and I thought it would go particularly well with the dress . ’ |
| 9 | The only other er notice I 've got for you is that tomorrow I forgot to put it on the notices tomorrow we 've got a lot of visitors in school there 's about er thirty five of them coming over who are likely to be joining us in the lower sixth next September er lessons with the lower sixth to find out what erm what lessons are like you know okay . |
| 10 | How long before the tour buses began to include it on their schedules ? |
| 11 | On Sept. 25 Bush called the new bill " a bunch of garbage " and threatened to veto it on budgetary grounds . |
| 12 | They arrived at a place where the river was fast and deep , and Angel started to cross it on the narrow footbridge , still holding Tess . |
| 13 | ‘ When you 're writing stuff , these kinds of songs come out and you know you 're never going to use them seriously , but we had such a laugh when we were playing about with that one , we decided to use it on the single . |
| 14 | So , for the remit 's specification of industrial democracy , the rationale has to be this : that officials or , for that matter , ordinary members of the union , elected or deputed to represent it on a board of directors , would be accountable to the membership which would replace them if it judged their performance to be unsatisfactory . |
| 15 | So you 've got the right idea of dividing it by eight , but you needed to take it on a stage and see what the was . |
| 16 | They decided to take it on board , and as part of their culture change , they will not have people working beyond a certain time at night . |
| 17 | Well , 25 of us went to see it on the 13th of February , and it 's a good show . |
| 18 | I hired one and went to try it on a mountain . |
| 19 | But we do think that the fact that they chose to launch it on the last day of our Conference is quite a compliment ; it was after all the Green Party that forced the government to produce the White Paper as a result of our fifteen% in the European Elections last year . |
| 20 | It fell forwards and I managed to catch it on my outstretched forearm . |
| 21 | He offered to sell it on the Keele campus . |
| 22 | I rolled it up into a ball and pushed the shawl and lipstick inside the bundle , then I went to put it on Sally 's step . |
| 23 | I asked him why he had to explore it on me . |
| 24 | and er that may sound er a bit exaggerated but I can assure you that 's what happened , that er , to go to , to be able to file these , these little scraps of paper they had to stick it on another sheet |
| 25 | For some reason he longed to hear it on her lips . |
| 26 | like that , no one knew , I was driving the car and I recorded everything that was in the car all night no one knew until the end of the night , I got the tape home , I go this is gon na be interesting I had to do it on one of my tapes though |
| 27 | Because we forgot to do , we forgot to do the spelling test last Friday , so we had to do it on Monday so we did n't get any spelling this week , so right now we did n't have a spelling test , this is brilliant , guess what we do now ? |
| 28 | ‘ I did n't know I had to put it on the meat — ’ |
| 29 | And I had to put it on the seat of my bicycle , push it all the way and it 'd be a good mile from Street to right across from . |
| 30 | I had to put it on the floor to work the door bar and once I had it open , I slid it out with my foot . |