Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] [verb] it on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clare levered the coins off the counter , and carried her cup out into the small enclosure , where she balanced it on an unsteady iron table , her feet cushioned by a carpet of litter . |
| 2 | Jarvis opened the case he had brought on the vestibule floor , carried the typewriter into Remove , where he put it on one of the desks , and took his clothes upstairs . |
| 3 | I du n no what to do with it , so I stick it on my head . |
| 4 | The tent-pole bag was torn , so I put it on one side with the sewing kit . |
| 5 | Now I know it was a great honour but I could see no way of accepting , so I put it on the mantelpiece and more or less prepared to forget all about it . |
| 6 | He would n't take it , so I pressed it on Felix instead . |
| 7 | Right and he says the wider gap , so you write it on the order form , right , it 's part of the order form close |
| 8 | Right so you do it on other side and then work out what that comes to , so why did you multiply that side by a hundred ? |
| 9 | I would say in employment yes , or people that want to get employment example would be yeah at M D secretary suddenly shot into the job of producing the company newspaper now I mean somebody like very quickly has to get to grips with this obviously can not give up six months to go and do it so you do it on a half day release basis . |
| 10 | the other one , so we left it on that channel , channel nine I think it were . |
| 11 | ‘ We did not want the burden of administration falling on the taxpayer so we put it on the prime beneficiary , which is the farmer himself . ’ |
| 12 | Wesley made little progress with agricultural labourers because they were tied into the rigidities of the traditional social order , although he blamed it on the stolid stupidity of the peasantry , but in many mining and manufacturing villages Methodism throve . |
| 13 | On a celebrated occasion in Wales a county court judge sitting in a civil case in Bridgend had not completed the case when the train was due to leave , so he continued it on the train and gave his final judgement in the station-master 's office at Llantrisant . |
| 14 | He was in a fix — he had bought two papers and merged them together , and I was n't around , I was in New York , and I did the logo for him in a hurry , but I did n't have time to design a newspaper , nor was it the kind of thing for which he could pay a big design fee , so he described it on the phone and then he faxed me some pages of the existing papers , and I said well what you have to do is look at the old London Times and do that . |
| 15 | ‘ Only if I wore it on my head . ’ |
| 16 | Well I 'm blowed if I saw it on , on that receipt . |
| 17 | What if I write it on your forehead and then she 'll see it wo n't she ? |
| 18 | Now we 're fortunate with with this that if I turn it on it 's very quiet but if any of you had and I 'm sure Jeff you 've probably seen it where you get some older machines and the fan in there rattles like mad and there 's nothing worse than having that thing rattling all all the day . |
| 19 | If I had it on a solid floor , but it 's got ta go , do n't forget it 's on a a wooden floor . |
| 20 | No but I 'll , if I say it on every tape she might get the hint . |
| 21 | Then there 's her book — a series of short stories and reflections entitled Memoirs Of A Pretty Lady — that is due to be followed by a second volume next summer , ‘ if I finish it on time , which I 'd better ’ . |
| 22 | ( I got a bent line if I did it on my own , but here was one to follow . ) |
| 23 | The vermouth was dark red , and I wondered what my mother would do if I poured it on the mushroom-coloured carpet — very slowly . |
| 24 | I did n't realise how clear her speech was until I heard it on the tape . |
| 25 | Commonly called yellow fumitory , it comes up like mustard and cress at the foot of every shady wall in the garden and I used to wrench it out with the ruthlessness I used on sycamore seedlings until I discovered it on sale in a nursery for well over £1 a plant . |
| 26 | Striker Gary Bull said : ‘ I did n't know anything about it until I saw it on Ceefax . ’ |
| 27 | And he said , I had all that and that 's why every time you called me something I just kept laughing cos I had it on tape . |
| 28 | Er , I sorry , , just clearing my throat , er , I did , I did delegate if somebody put it on the end of somebody 's assignment , then I to it , but I tend to find I underestimate what people can do for me all the time , and do n't identify just how much those people can give me back , and I did , or I do have a tendency at times to give people like before , to hold on too much , try and do too much myself , and er , you ca n't do it that way in case . |
| 29 | Rune filled her glass , watching her as she half emptied it in one long swallow , waiting until she replaced it on the table before enquiring mildly , ‘ Then what happened ? ’ |
| 30 | cos she wanted it on sixty weeks |