Example sentences of "[verb] it on the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Three Choirs vineyard is making an English equivalant of Beaujolais Nouveau , and is launching it on the French market . |
| 2 | Send them to your boss 's secretary , stating in writing that you are starting on the preparation of the report , as instructed , and are basing it on the enclosed terms of reference . |
| 3 | ‘ The Yorkshire Evening Post ( YEP ) used it on the front page with a by-line . |
| 4 | He found it on the far side , punched the red button and watched the big metal doors start to move . |
| 5 | ‘ I found it on the barbed wire . |
| 6 | Then take a second card from the middle pile and place it on the other outside pile . |
| 7 | If properly encouraged , they could carry the small amount of pollen necessary for fertilisation and place it on the exact spot in the female flower where it was required . |
| 8 | I want it on the biting edge between ‘ is n't it hysterically funny ? ’ and ‘ is n't it absolutely unbearably awful ? ’ it 's the working class ploy , or disabled ploy , that you joke about adversity . |
| 9 | And at once I could smell it on the tied-on head-cushion — that same elusive , old-fashioned perfume of the towel , of the glove . |
| 10 | ‘ You could have done it on the sly , like , arranged to speak to her in private . ’ |
| 11 | If you put it on the right feet it 's clearly one of the best available . |
| 12 | LEFT Especially if you are not used to fitting a check chain , take care to ensure that you put it on the right way round . |
| 13 | But make sure we put it on the right side though ! |
| 14 | So , I put it on the other way round this morning and he hates it , I 've only just done it |
| 15 | ‘ We did not want the burden of administration falling on the taxpayer so we put it on the prime beneficiary , which is the farmer himself . ’ |
| 16 | The Rosewood 's very close to a Jazzmaster sometimes , actually , because it 's very sweet ; when you put it on the front pickup it 's very mellow . |
| 17 | When I had eaten the first course of cabbage , and the second of meat pudding , potato and carrots , I poured cold water into my used billycan and put it on the lighted stove . |
| 18 | He removed the vase and put it on the occasional table next to the wedding photograph . |
| 19 | I 've done m is there , are there any gaps in between , if you put it on the good quality like , can you see any spaces ? |
| 20 | So I put it on the dim switch so as he can see to get in the bedroom . |
| 21 | You 'd be well advised not to overdo it on the old liquid refreshment , however , as the return leg beside the river involves crossing an awful lot of stiles . |
| 22 | Will I do it on the other side ? |
| 23 | We could do it on the National Health . |
| 24 | There are a whole lot of players who can go out there and knock balls in all over the place , score wonderful great big one four sevens and centuries and things of this nature , but what makes the , the good player an excellent player , is the player who can do it on the big occasion . |
| 25 | we want it done in both directions , there 's no way you can do it on the main line |
| 26 | All that was necessary was for the porter to replace it on the wrong nail before going to Compline , and leave her its ineffective twin . |
| 27 | He had to drag out of nature whatever lay hidden and ‘ inferior ’ — to use Jung 's word — and exhibit it on the opened-out surface of a work of art . |
| 28 | Yeah , we with this been ongoing , we 've given a hundred and fifty pounds to it , erm , well I say I do n't see it on the top one . |
| 29 | On opening any packet etc , I can see from the index card how long it is likely to last and then record it on the appropriate page of the notebook . |
| 30 | Classic ritual of the disappointing album : buy it at the Megastore ; go for coffee as a way of prolonging the moment of consumption , rip off the cellophane , remove the card inlay ( taking care not to tear it on the little perspex teeth ) and scan the lyrics ( Giddy-up giddy-up giddy-up whoa/My pony boy ’ — shit ! ) ; tube home ( further lyric-skimming ) ; feed it to the CD player , skip to the second track while still halfway through the first , sample that , move on , hop and jump to the end and start wondering about forthcoming birthdays — then back to the beginning in the hope that maybe it is , as we used to say , a grower . |