Example sentences of "[vb past] it on [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 He re-emphasised it on another occasion : ‘ I identify with this notion …
2 No I tried it on smaller needles
3 The taxpayer received it on 8 December and it was lodged in the High Court on 15 January 1991 .
4 The DOE sent it out to referees for opinions , one of whom was Steven Jones , who received it on 20 September .
5 Crossman joined it on 29th April 1969 .
6 Cyril opened it on 22 June 43 1 , before the supporters of Nestorius had arrived .
7 I did n't know there were a video , I says get your he just tuned it on any channel , I says get your remote control for your telly I says and click
8 A man who has slain Thomas Springall and blamed it on poor Brampton , afterwards making his death look like suicide .
9 In Sliwa 's last stunt he faked his own kidnapping and blamed it on off-duty police officers .
10 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 ) .
11 Trees surrounded it on all sides .
12 Thick hedgerows surrounded it on three sides .
13 She spent it on other things .
14 ‘ He ripped off a firm of disreputable City stockbrokers to the tune of about a million pounds and spent it on high living — yachts , mistresses , that sort of thing .
15 And I arranged it on that day at the time .
16 Or rubbed it on each other , rather .
17 Only one person managed it on public transport .
18 Carrying it over , she placed it on Tweed 's desk , switched it on , found a music programme , kept it on low volume and sat down close to Newman .
19 she took it on six year , he says seven to eighty so she looks like working for next six year
20 Becoming very attached to this curious animal he took it on extensive travels until its death .
21 I took it on full time , ’ she said .
22 They passed it on 19th April when it obtained the Royal Assent and became law with the short title , The Public Offices Extension Act 1859 .
23 An individual who bought the FT All Share Index at 31 March 1982 and sold it on 31 August 1989 would have suffered tax ( at 40% and ignoring the annual exemption ) of 24.2% of the proceeds .
24 He took off the first slice , you know the rather well-done , brown bit at the end , and laid it on one side of the serving dish and then he cut the next slice off for the first lady and so on . ’
25 Zach and George dragged the case up to the bedroom and laid it on one side .
26 Because you produced it on loose pages I could exhibit it month by month as you organised it .
27 It was also rumoured that Lloyd George might advocate protectionist policies and Baldwin make have called the general election and fought it on protectionist policies in order to undermine any such move by Lloyd George .
28 Preston , at the mouth of the River Ribble , lay roughly halfway between Lancaster and Warrington , and Forster 's horsemen reached and occupied it on 9 November , to be followed a day later by the slower-moving infantry .
29 Wurtz to have this paper presented to the Académie des Sciences but there was delay because Wurtz was not then an academician : J. B. A. Dumas eventually presented it on 14 June 1858 .
30 Its circulation had grown enormously as immigrants flooded into Tollemarche , and it had expanded into the shops which flanked it on either side .
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