Example sentences of "[vb -s] [verb] it on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although karate developed in Japan , that country has never won a team world championship , whereas Great Britain has won it on no less than four occasions — a record unmatched in the history of karate . |
| 2 | See here , they 're gon na get thirty six for it as it stands put it on the market as |
| 3 | The reader who has bought your book has bought it on the understanding that this is what will happen . |
| 4 | In the litter tray they do the same thing , but if it has been used several times without being properly cleaned out this becomes impossible and the cat will then prefer to defecate elsewhere , even if it has to go through the motions of covering its dung with imaginary earth after it has deposited it on a wooden floor or a carpet . |
| 5 | Like Malone , Anderson has laid it on the line to his players . |
| 6 | He got three months ’ jail but has served it on remand . |
| 7 | Pilar Wayne now says she ca n't afford the upkeep on ‘ La Roca ’ in exclusive Newport Beach , California , and has put it on the market for £2 million . |
| 8 | All this is so rich , heady and fast-moving that the viewer has to take it on the narrator 's trust . |
| 9 | It is owned by property developer Robert Lance Hughes who plans to re-erect it on an as yet unconfirmed site . |
| 10 | Usually the word is applied at the immature stage before the eye swells with rising sap , often changing colour a little — which helps to identify it on a leafless stem . |
| 11 | By agreeing to give him a right one purports to confer it on him , or one promises to do so in the future ( the expression is ambiguous ) . |
| 12 | And I do n't see that it helps to blame it on the stars . |
| 13 | If it accepts , it thereby agrees to purchase the item for cash from the trader and at the same time agrees to transfer it on hire-purchase terms to the customer . |
| 14 | Yeah the l that 's the laughable thing as well , he tries to criticize it on ideological grounds |
| 15 | ‘ Shirley says the Gresham 's buyer likes to see it on the wall when he visits . |
| 16 | She 's written it on the top of the letter . |
| 17 | As I say , nowadays I get the information from you over the phone , and then when we 've got somebody who said Oh no , it 's only a small flat , I 've got this this and this and that 's the big pieces of furniture , er if it 's somebody that 's done it on spec I say Well look give me a ring back in an hour if er when you 've come off the phone you er there 's something you 've forgotten . |
| 18 | He 's got it on his face ! |
| 19 | He 's got it on his |
| 20 | Who 's got it on his face ? |
| 21 | in n it really and now every pub , as I say every pub 's got it on tap . |
| 22 | So er that was good to remember and she 's got another wedding cake in August I do n't know where she 's got it on the production line . |
| 23 | His car 's got it on that |
| 24 | I mean , she 's got it on this morning , open with a Benetton |
| 25 | Of course , that 's right it 's cos it 's got it on the . |
| 26 | It 's not as if Roy 's had it on his toes , is it ? |
| 27 | erm he 's been in it twenty years and er he 's had it on the market for some time . |
| 28 | " She 's brought it on herself with overeating , " said Kevin . |
| 29 | Well , he 's brought it on himself , she could n't help thinking , and I do n't see why I should stick around and be made to pay too . |
| 30 | But on other occasions , to use a phrase of Nietzsche , ‘ a thought comes when ‘ it ’ wants , not when I want ’ , explodes and opens out too fast in in too complex ramifications to be disciplined , takes bold analogical leaps in defiance of logical rigour ; the problem on which it centres is obscure , defining itself in the process of being solved , and as he struggles to formulate it the thought is running in another direction , yet he yields to the flow out of a vague intimation that it will circle back ; for the final effort to force the argument into a coherent and publicly testable form — the only assurance even for himself that he is illumined and not deluded — he waits until the time comes to complete it on paper . |