Example sentences of "[v-ing] it on the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Now at that stage you were doing it on the telephone were you ? |
| 32 | ‘ If they do n't do it in training I ca n't see them doing it on the park . ’ |
| 33 | Well I mean I know that twenty percent is twenty pound in a hundred , but what 's a quick way of doing it on the calculator . |
| 34 | It , it , looked alright , I , you know doing it on the telly , it did everything they said . |
| 35 | I I 'm grateful I I I 'm winding up that we on this side we do believe that these additional six seats are very important because we believe that the European parliament elections are going to be very important and fighting them on these new boundaries with the minimum of delay in spite of the delay that had been caused by the government' incompetence , we regard as very important , we regard this debate tonight as very important to approve these orders because we can not so far work out whether the government will be fighting the er the whole campaign on the basis of back to basics while the E P P will be doing it on the basis of some other manifesto , vorsprung durch technik or whatever it might be , and they 'll be trying to merge those into two slogans of o of er vorsprung durch basics or or whatever it might be and this we do not know at all whether the government want to be part of Europe and whether their back benchers are gon na be willing to cooperate with the European peoples party or they take the money from the European peoples party but they do n't want to participate with them in the manifesto . |
| 36 | I know it sounds mad but I suddenly had an image of them doing it on the carpet in the office like a couple of dogs . ’ |
| 37 | He drew on it , then took it out of his mouth and nipped the end off before dropping it on the floor . |
| 38 | the notion of getting hold of a sort of re a perceived object and dropping it on the floor and watching it split into it 's component parts is quite appealing If you take a , if you imagine , you could take an object that you 're perceiving , yes ? |
| 39 | When reading it on the spot , along with Memoirs of the Duc de Saint Simon , the visitor becomes entirely absorbed in the bizarre life of Louis XIV , a monarch who spent all his time in public , and yet allowed no man — except his brother — to sit down directly in front of him . |
| 40 | Few of his peers scoffed , but even fewer followed his example of actually taking it on the course . |
| 41 | The car 's manufacturers are taking it on the chin . |
| 42 | The car 's manufacturers are taking it on the chin . |
| 43 | So John 's now taking it on the basis that he takes budget with it so |
| 44 | He picked up his briefcase , resting it on the desk . |
| 45 | Allowance of the defence of truth , with the burden of proving it on the defendant , does not mean that only false speech will be deterred . |
| 46 | Then one morning I did not go early for my paper , and seeing it on the mat Cedric brought it to me . |
| 47 | That was a nice picture — Marie liked it I think , cos she did n't mind me sticking it on the wall . |
| 48 | Like tying a bottle on the door and sticking it on the window and knock the door and they had to come , crash the bottle would go . |
| 49 | He embraces suicide as deed , as the one true act in a false world , as supreme podvig , as feat to end feats , God-killing , god-making ; and in doing so he exemplifies , as others before and Ivan Karamazov after him , the truth that Dostoevsky can only satisfy his hunger for crisis and clarity by bestowing it on the enemy . |
| 50 | ‘ Like some coffee ? ’ said Wilcox , taking her coat and hanging it on the back of the door . |
| 51 | She removed his wet topcoat , and gave it a shake before hanging it on the hall-stand . |
| 52 | It is planned to achieve this by renovating the original ( 1903 ) corrugated iron goods shed and extending it on the sou east side where the dilapidated lean-to addition will be removed . |
| 53 | Mrs Blakey was already bustling about , taking butter from the fridge and putting it on the edge of the Aga to soften , taking a sliced loaf from the bread-bin . |
| 54 | Well , I was putting it on the foil and I thought : ‘ This could kill me ’ , but it was that strong the urge to have it , I did n't care . |
| 55 | putting it on the table If you do n't do that , I can guarantee that Bill , Bill is gon na play silly buggers . |
| 56 | The answer is to unwind some of the absurdities of the intervention system which mean that far too much money is devoted to financing the depreciation of beef rather than to putting it on the table . |
| 57 | ‘ Try harder , ’ he appealed and , taking her wine glass from her and putting it on the table , he drew her close . |
| 58 | Taking the score out of my brief-case and putting it on the podium : that is not my way . |
| 59 | She had not visited Jackdaw Cottage since putting it on the market two months ago . |
| 60 | Lean forward as you rise As in the beach start , by leaning down on a straight front arm you are taking the weight off the back of the board and putting it on the mast foot . |