Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] it on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | At rehearsals , Les Cox agreed it would be wiser not to practise falling down the stairs as it was a skill which took months to acquire — better just to go for it on the night . |
| 2 | ‘ Listen , I do n't want to talk about it on the phone . |
| 3 | His office would n't want to talk about it on the telephone , because my father has not been well , and at times has been behaving rather strangely . |
| 4 | However , the drafter should remember that problems frequently arise where one party to a contract seeks to escape from it on the grounds that the other is in breach of a condition , and that the time for performance of obligations ( other than payment of money ) under a commercial contract is normally " of the essence " : a failure to perform on time in accordance with the contract will therefore justify the other party in terminating the contract ( see Bunge Corpn v Tradax Export SA [ 1981 ] 1 WLR 711 ) . |
| 5 | Svend Larsen had told him that the farm was becoming vacant and had offered to negotiate for it on the Colonel 's behalf , the islanders not wanting incomers to buy up farms for weekend occupation only . |
| 6 | I was disgusted to read your snide attack ( Disinformation , FACE 19 ) on ‘ White South African Musician Johnny Clegg ’ , who is one of the only white artistes in that country who has been fighting apartheid and trying to deal with it on the inside . |
| 7 | In addition , the deal covering the Walter-Guillaume donation ( handled by Jacques Walter after his father 's accidental death ) implied that the international nature of his own private collection — his right to dispose of it on the international market in other words — should be respected and the French State show itself ‘ worthy ’ of the gift . |