Example sentences of "[verb] it on an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shape the dough into a round loaf , place it on an oiled baking sheet and cover again with a large polythene bag . |
| 2 | The great double doors of the palace had been smashed inwards by a hammerblow from an American Civil War vintage sixty-five pounder naval gun , which the rebels had somehow recovered from the sunken Atlanta , transporting it on an ox-drawn cart since the wheels were missing from its carriage axles . |
| 3 | That used to be a completely different tune ; I had the lyrics , but I played it on an open tuned National , then when I got the Strat and plugged it into an old Fender Vibrolux amp , it became what it became on record . |
| 4 | As with the data manipulation unit , these units are able to carry out any one of an appropriate set of operations when signalled by the control unit ; for example , to read a digit punched on paper tape and store it in a specified store location or to retrieve a digit from a specified store location and print it on an electric typewriter . |
| 5 | Nevertheless , Mr. Pybus , the Minister of Transport , announced in February 1932 , that the London Transport Bill was dead and he had no intention of forcing it on an unwilling House of Commons . |
| 6 | Position it in the centre of the mantelpiece , stand it on a shelf on its own , shine a spotlight on to it , or hang it on an empty wall where it will attract attention . |
| 7 | This was folded and stored in a paper envelope for nearly a hundred years , and the creases make it very unlikely we shall ever be able to play it on an original machine . |
| 8 | For example it was much easier to incorporate provision for credit accumulation and transfer into a new system , when it was being set up , then to superimpose it on an established system . |
| 9 | So it takes all the pain out of coming up with annual appraisals because you 've been doing it on an incremental basis . |
| 10 | And there 's a lo there 's a whole industry built up about inheritance tax planning where you actually write something in trust for your dependents , and er that 's simple in that if you 're in good health now , you can write say a twenty thousand pounds inheritance tax cover , under trust for your children so that 's paid outside the estate , it does n't make the matters worse , and mo most conveniently at retirement it 's simple to do because you might pay it on an annual premium or a regular monthly premium , and it might cost you twenty or thirty pounds a month , but at least you can forget it then . |
| 11 | Clare levered the coins off the counter , and carried her cup out into the small enclosure , where she balanced it on an unsteady iron table , her feet cushioned by a carpet of litter . |
| 12 | As budgeting is an integral part of any business plan , it is usually preferable both to express the plan and to review it on an annual basis that coincides with the firm 's accounting year . |
| 13 | When someone asks a government for bloodwealth , they not only threaten bloodshed if it is not forthcoming , but do so in an idiom which denies the government 's claim to superiority , puts it on an equal footing , treats it as just another tribe . |
| 14 | Eh now this is strong stuff , never take it on an empty stomach . |
| 15 | Now because it 's this strong , never take it on an empty stomach . |
| 16 | And then He was crucified and three days later rose from the dead , and at Mass the bread and wine actually turn into flesh and blood , so you should n't have breakfast that morning but take it on an empty stomach . |
| 17 | ‘ And of course , the man who knows most about it , the scientist who designed this project , set it up , launched it on an unknowing world . |