Example sentences of "[v-ing] 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 | ‘ A tale from Lamb , ’ she muttered , opening it on the first page . |
| 3 | But again , it is up to each manager to make the final decision , basing it on the best available advice . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | To illustrate this I punched a row on a punchcard of six punched holes and six blanks , alternating it on the one row . |
| 6 | When you 're seeking a grant for your pet project , you have to sell it to the sponsoring body as if you were touting it on the open market , because there are so many pet projects and only so many grants . |
| 7 | Walter made quite a business from stealing rationed food from the grocer he worked for and selling it on the black market , while Theo dealt mostly in men 's clothes which he shifted on to a second-hand dealer who paid ready cash . |
| 8 | you certainly wo n't be getting it on the following Monday |
| 9 | He completed it about the end of 1839 , and quickly mastered the art of riding it on the rough country roads , so that he was soon accustomed to making the fourteen-mile journey to Dumfries in less than an hour . |
| 10 | Oh I think an electric drill it was in the sixties so with the twenty five pounds off it brought it down a bit and I , I paid for it with one cheque so I was n't having it on the weekly er er it worked out I think Vicki gave some of it towards it . |
| 11 | Understand that you are not shutting the door on the one you loved , but you are shutting it on the negative force that lived — or still lives — within them . |
| 12 | They 're trying to pick it off and doing it on the big grass . |
| 13 | Yeah , doing it on the wrong sides . |
| 14 | so like perhaps , say six weeks you 're doing it on the voluntary basis |
| 15 | Dropping it on the red-pooled floor , Ace stared back at Richmann 's body and the sticky smear it had left on the grey metal of the door . |
| 16 | Before caution could restrain the impulse , he placed his hand over hers where she was resting it on the low wall in front of them . |
| 17 | ‘ Boyz N The Hood ’ has grossed over $50 million ( and still counting ) at the American box office , putting it on the top ten releases of the summer . |
| 18 | hundred quid 's putting it on the light side . |
| 19 | Trials for the signalling system have been accelerated as BR examines the feasibility of introducing it on the entire 11,000-mile network . |
| 20 | Instead of hanging the whole of the weight , hang only the left hand hook of the weight , placing it on the right hand stitch about two rows from the top of the knitting . |
| 21 | It follows that we see no case for placing it on the semi-statutory footing proposed by the select committee . |
| 22 | They produce press releases and they send it off and they feel terribly bitter and twisted and unhappy because nobody takes any notice of it , but they do n't realize that what they 've actually produced makes no sense at all to the person receiving it on the other end . |
| 23 | However , it was not sent out for review until mid-September , Jones receiving it on the 20th . |
| 24 | Somebody yelled and threw a can at the cab , hitting it on the rear bumper . |
| 25 | But I am content to rest my conclusion in rejecting it on the simple ground , which closely reflects the reasoning I have already deployed in rejecting the board 's construction of section 18 , that the words in subsection ( 2 ) ‘ an order for payment … to the unassisted party … of the costs incurred by him in the proceedings ’ can only apply to costs incurred by the unassisted party in his capacity as such . |