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

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1 Tony caught it all on film .
2 He blamed it all on business , but could not resist taunting her for expecting him to be at h-er beck and call , while disapproving that he was rich .
3 P. Oh , my worst day — get up , eat food , watch TV , sit in 'cause I 've got no money because I spent it all on Sunday , then off to work till 2am to earn more skating money .
4 Later that evening we watched it all on television again .
5 Marsh was dismissed with three minutes to go for a late challenge on Dimitr Radchenko , scorer of Spartak 's first goal , in their 2–0 success which made it 6–2 on aggregate .
6 but Wimbledon were always going to win it … and Robbie Earle rounded things off with number 4 which made it 5-1 on aggregate
7 Dos Santos welcomed the move , but made it clear on Dec. 27 that before he met Savimbi UNITA would have to accept the September election results , withdraw from all areas occupied following the elections , and enable government administration to be extended throughout Angola .
8 The United States , which like Germany had hitherto strongly favoured maintaining Yugoslav integrity , made it clear on July 2 that it did not support the use of force to preserve this integrity , and on the same day President Bush indicated in a letter to the recently installed ( Croat ) head of the Collective State Presidency , Stjepan Mesic [ see p. 38275 ] , that it would accept the republics ' independence if achieved peacefully .
9 The results reflected concern in West Germany about the pace and particularly the financial consequences of the German unification process , although Federal Chancellor Helmut Kohl made it clear on May 14 that he intended to stick to the timetable of holding all-German elections in December 1990 or January 1991 despite the CDU 's " bitter " defeat in Lower Saxony .
10 The Steelers made it 14–3 on Lipps ' 11 yard scoring grab early in the second period .
11 When the Union of Democratic Forces ( UDF ) first screened the videotape of the Dec. 14 demonstration on state television in June [ see p. 37544 ] , Mladenov denounced it as a " slanderous montage " , but experts ruled it authentic on July 4 , whereupon Mladenov in a nationwide broadcast declared that his remark had been taken out of context , and that he should be judged by deeds not words .
12 " You sound as if you think I did it all on purpose , " she said .
13 In public he put it all on unemployment .
14 I was laughing and you were getting the hump with it cos I knew I had it all on tape .
15 When the Mary arrived off Mogadishu , the master refused to enter the port because he considered it unsafe on account of the fighting that was going on there .
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