Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] it on a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Newman had kept the conversation general , fending Evelyn off when she tried to bring it on a more personal basis . |
| 2 | Prison does that to some men , though , he 'd heard it on a documentary . |
| 3 | She looked the same as usual ; untidy , a hole in her coat where she 'd caught it on a hook in the yard . |
| 4 | You said you 'd spent it on a new banjo . ’ |
| 5 | It sounded as though she 'd left it on a bus or something . |
| 6 | Lord Denning sought to avoid it on a number of occasions , the most notable case being Davis v. Johnson [ 1978 ] 2 WLR 182 ( CA ) . |
| 7 | So , for the remit 's specification of industrial democracy , the rationale has to be this : that officials or , for that matter , ordinary members of the union , elected or deputed to represent it on a board of directors , would be accountable to the membership which would replace them if it judged their performance to be unsatisfactory . |
| 8 | So you 've got the right idea of dividing it by eight , but you needed to take it on a stage and see what the was . |
| 9 | I hired one and went to try it on a mountain . |
| 10 | Yes I know cos you did have it on a few weeks ago . |
| 11 | Although it is not a mountain tent I did take it on a high camp with a family group . |
| 12 | His father was very proud of his house because he had built it on a bit of land at Low Fields and did quite a lot of the construction work himself , with the help of his bachelor brother , Tommy . |
| 13 | She had bought it on a trip to Munich with the League of European Women . |
| 14 | … the court … must act on the valuation unless there be proof of some mistake or improper motive … as if the valuer has valued something not included or had valued it on a wholly erroneous basis … from Lord Eldon 's judgment in Emery v Wase ( 1803 ) 8 Ves Jun 506 , where the difference between valuations of £4,000 and £6,000 was said to warrant judicial suspicion that the valuation had not been made with attention to accuracy : but the case was decided on the basis of the court 's duty to protect the property of married women . |
| 15 | By a stroke of luck , she had spotted it on a colleague 's bookshelf before lunch . |
| 16 | ‘ Sandwich , ’ she said putting it on a plate bearing the legend LNER . |