Example sentences of "[vb pp] it on [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm but they er have only done it on a localized basis . |
| 2 | ‘ You could have done it on the sly , like , arranged to speak to her in private . ’ |
| 3 | I 've even seen it on a Finnish bus-shelter . |
| 4 | The bill was passed by the House by 273 votes to 154 ; the Senate had approved it on the previous day by 62 votes to 34 . |
| 5 | In the litter tray they do the same thing , but if it has been used several times without being properly cleaned out this becomes impossible and the cat will then prefer to defecate elsewhere , even if it has to go through the motions of covering its dung with imaginary earth after it has deposited it on a wooden floor or a carpet . |
| 6 | On a shelf was a pebble that had been polished by running water ; it was ovoid , a piece of granite about big enough to hold in a clenched fist ; a seam of quartz halved it on the diagonal . |
| 7 | You said you 'd spent it on a new banjo . ’ |
| 8 | For almost the whole of their walk their objective had been in sight : the green copper cupola of the soaring campanile of Arthur Blomfield 's extraordinary Romanesque basilica , built in 1870 on the bank of this sluggish urban waterway with as much confidence as if he had erected it on the Venetian Grand Canal . |
| 9 | I followed with the tray , placed it on a small coffee table by the fire and we sat opposite each other in wingback chairs . |
| 10 | Pike the ditcher and Watkin the dung-collector had , in the absence of any relatives , sewn the body into a canvas sack , placed it on a wooden trellis and brought it to lie in front of the chancel screen . |
| 11 | He had put it on the draining board . |
| 12 | He 'd probably achieved it on a pleasant little trip to the Bahamas . |