Example sentences of "[noun sg] [coord] [verb] it on " in BNC.

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1 If the money so raised in a modern equivalent of this lottery is to be wasted on similar luxuries , it would be better if we saved our money or spent it on necessities .
2 Ask for it at your local café , put it in your tea or sprinkle it on your ice-cream any way it 's great ! ’
3 I notice that even when you are simply listening to music on tape or watching it on the TV monitor when you are editing you are still breathing with the music even though you are not conducting it .
4 It will be helping with localisation and pushing it on Apple Computer Inc 's Power Book line .
5 She pulled out her warrant card and slapped it on the desk then marched out of the office , slamming the door behind her .
6 This is merely the reaction time required in picking up the card and placing it on a pile without making any choice based on the value of the card .
7 Tell your audience that you are going to spell out the names of a complete suit of cards and , each time you spell out a letter , you are going to take the top card and place it on the bottom .
8 Zach and George dragged the case up to the bedroom and laid it on one side .
9 He went to the lavatory , lifted a large tin bath off its wall hook , took it into the bedroom and placed it on the floor .
10 On Oct. 5 the deputy Defence Minister , Gen. Muhammad Nabi Azimi , confirmed the defeat and blamed it on interference by Pakistan 's Inter-Services Intelligence agency ( ISI ) , which , it was alleged , had been " supplying new weapons to the armed extremists in a bid to capture one of the cities inside Afghanistan " .
11 He was sufficiently troubled by Malcolm 's bouncer to stand frozen at the crease and take it on the helmet , but sufficiently brave to try to hook the inevitable follow-up .
12 He took out a large photograph and placed it on her knee , taking her cup from her with the same effortless movement .
13 Then I got a hand bowl full of fresh sawdust from a sack in the little warehouse and sprinkled it on the clean boards .
14 Oh we used to have phosphate and sulphur , potash , coal , granite you name it anything , general cargo we 've had , loaded everything , even dead bodies , we sent , there was one young , one young person , he got drowned up the coast there and they and he had to go back to Holland and they brought that from out the warehouse and put it on the stern of our ship , his coffin , they sent that back and they erm export er pigs to Poland , all live pigs , pedigree pigs .
15 Instead she lifted her hair with both hands , smoothing it up from the nape of her neck and piling it on top of her head in a soft copper mound .
16 Gilly swiped the little wet paper across her mouth and dropped it on the floor .
17 She half opened her tight , thin mouth and held it on the verge of speaking .
18 Pat poured the doctor out a cup of tea and placed it on the bedside table .
19 Celia arrived with a tray of tea and placed it on the table .
20 Firstly , jump up and collect the shield , then go left , jump on the platform to your left and then the platform on your right , grab the weight , climb the right wall and throw the weight on the switch , jump/fly up onto the block on the wall , go left and cross the gap on the swing , fly up two platforms and run right , go under the guillotine , jump up the pipe and collect a weight , walk left and fall off the last platform , throw the weight on the switch , go left and use the fly to climb up the platform , take the weight and throw it on the switch above you .
21 He looked round for the instrument and saw it on top of one of the presses .
22 Then , using a two pronged transfer tool , pick up just the end stitch and put it on the end needle ( 1 ) .
23 When the retention of 59 was announced , the Gazette responded : ‘ Sometime in the future , it may be possible to resurrect the old car and parade it on the Promenade as a specimen of what people in Blackpool used to enjoy travelling on ’ .
24 Mark smoke half a fag and leave it on your bench to pollute the air .
25 Now the Wye 's the only major river in England where anyone can bring a boat and put it on the water without any form of licence .
26 We could borrow that other tape and play it on your tape
27 At Skouriotissa a bulldozer scoops up ancient slag and dumps it on a new road .
28 The Kitchens are in New York for the first time , because last August , A&M America heard their just-completed second album and bought it on the spot .
29 It 's a good idea to keep a press cuttings album and leave it on permanent display in the staff room or school reception area .
30 He brings the teddy bear and sits it on the windowsill where it can watch us .
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