Example sentences of "[verb] it on [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No I tried it on smaller needles |
| 2 | The client takes out a second application , and they want it on minimum premiums , they actually get it for eighty per cent of the current value of the minimum premium . |
| 3 | I do n't think she 'll be too happy roughing it on nine pounds a week or whatever a shorthand typist earns . " |
| 4 | Very crudely we can base it on those elements which albeit often apparently antithetical or contradictory as they seem to be , have figured more or less constantly in discussions on " what design is " . |
| 5 | Some of us have actually seen it on better days and a few have actually landed there , finding to their surprise that Fair Isle can be a pleasant green island with a fascinating geological structure and a friendly people . |
| 6 | So I asked them in the lodge like do n't do any damage and Tom was in e he gave them a good lecture so and the lads in the lodge said , Well look you tell them as well not to do this attitude and perhaps you 've seen it on these flumes when they saw a crowd that was there they were changing gear with the Land Rover and through you know like anybody in the way you 'd be underneath . |
| 7 | I do n't remember that I 've never seen it on any minutes |
| 8 | Sun will be getting parallelising technology from KAI that will decompose code and run it on multiple processors . |
| 9 | ( a ) in saying ‘ Something appears white ’ you are making certain assumptions about language ; you are assuming , for example , that the word ‘ white ’ , or the phrase ‘ appears white ’ , is being used in the way in which you have used it on other occasions , or in the way in which other people have used it . |
| 10 | Well I 've had it on three days John . |
| 11 | The afternoons were also good for going to the cinema ; they had all of the stuff that would take about six months to make a brief appearance in her home town and she could see it on decent-sized screens instead of one like the end of a shoebox . |
| 12 | You can also work it on other machines which will knit holding position needles to working position on the slip or free pass setting . |
| 13 | Nigel Scott , deputy general manager of the UCI cinema in Bracknell , Berks , said : ‘ We 've got it on two screens and we 're having to turn people away . |
| 14 | In the centre of the square was a stone archway with a clock in its wall and on the ground below , surrounding it on four sides , were wooden benches . |
| 15 | He will invest it while he is in jail , and use it in socially beneficial ways when he is released , while they will spend it on imported luxuries . |
| 16 | The Council feel that SARU should concentrate on raising money for the development of rugby in the townships rather than spend it on overseas tours to countries which can not afford to finance the visits . |
| 17 | Stand it on two blocks of wood , fill it with compost , then transfer some of your cuttings to their new home . |
| 18 | High garden walls bordered it on both sides . |
| 19 | Survey it on both sides . |
| 20 | In Sliwa 's last stunt he faked his own kidnapping and blamed it on off-duty police officers . |
| 21 | Conceptually , the inner city is a space outside society which has shown , for whatever reasons , a marked recalcitrance in responding to the macro-economic revival that surrounded it on all sides ( Massey and Meegan , 1989 ) . |
| 22 | Trees surrounded it on all sides . |
| 23 | Thick hedgerows surrounded it on three sides . |
| 24 | She spent it on other things . |
| 25 | When this year 's competition in Nottingham is completed , Great Britain , like Japan , will have hosted it on 3 occasions . |
| 26 | The letter was , however , present in the orthographic tradition ( regardless of the mixed origins of the tradition in Old English , Anglo-Norman and Latin orthography ) : thus , in the absence of strong orthographic standardization , the scribes would omit it on some occasions and insert it ‘ hypercorrectly ’ on others . |
| 27 | Soak a piece of bread in water and dab it on both sides of the cloth . |
| 28 | A second way of facing our question concerning the superiority of telescopic to naked-eye observations is to demonstrate the effectiveness of the telescope in a practical way , by focusing it on distant towers , ships , etc. and demonstrating how the instrument magnifies and renders objects more distinctly visible . |
| 29 | On Sept. 25 Bush called the new bill " a bunch of garbage " and threatened to veto it on budgetary grounds . |
| 30 | Held , allowing the appeal , that it was a requirement of all leases and tenancy agreements that the term created was of certain duration ; that the lease purportedly created under the memorandum of agreement , being for an uncertain period , was void and the land was held on a yearly tenancy created by virtue of the tenant 's possession and payment of yearly rent , on such terms of the memorandum of agreement as were consistent with a yearly tenancy ; and that , accordingly , since the term preventing the landlord from determining the tenancy until the land was required for road widening purposes was inconsistent with the right of either party under a yearly tenancy to determine it on six months ' notice , the plaintiffs ' tenancy had been lawfully determined ( post , pp. 283B–C , F–G , 284G–H , 285E–F , 286E–F , H — 287B , G–H ) . |