Example sentences of "he [vb past] [verb] it on " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He tried to unload it on me , ’ said Gareth Holmroyd . |
| 2 | He tried to flog it on the bus |
| 3 | He said he 'd heard it on the radio this mornin' . |
| 4 | Prison does that to some men , though , he 'd heard it on a documentary . |
| 5 | His daughter Diane Perry said she was rung by her husband from work after he 'd heard it on the radio . |
| 6 | He said make-up was all very well for some people , but he hated to see it on girls who were n't the right type — implying I suppose , that I ought to wear woollen stockings and teach in a Sunday school ! |
| 7 | He offered to sell it on the Keele campus . |
| 8 | Moreover , he had written it on pages that he could not at this moment tear up into big pieces and then into smaller pieces . |
| 9 | He told his teacher he had lost it on the way to school , and Mr Watson promptly rapped his knuckles with a ruler for his carelessness . |
| 10 | Attendance at the ball indicated considerable standing in the adult world and he had a sudden savage desire to show his parents , who would be there , that he had made it on his own , without any help from them . |
| 11 | I asked him why he had to explore it on me . |
| 12 | None of the bargeowners could afford to waste electricity , and the display was really intended for much later at night , but he had turned it on early to surprise and please them . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | And how he had pressed it on her ! ( pp. 258 — 9 ) |
| 15 | He had done it on one of the western stretches of the Central Line from North Acton to Ealing Broadway , a rather more hair-raising experience than this . |
| 16 | His father was very proud of his house because he had built it on a bit of land at Low Fields and did quite a lot of the construction work himself , with the help of his bachelor brother , Tommy . |
| 17 | The only problem was that every time he let the dog off the lead it tried to provide itself with a sheep supper , so consequently he had to keep it on the lead and feed it on tins of beans , sausages , bacon and egg , which had so exhausted his stock of food that now he was living on porridge and giving the dog the rest of his sausages . |
| 18 | He had put it on the draining board . |
| 19 | He had put it on record firmly that he had attempted a sacrilegious felony , and was justly restrained in consequence . |
| 20 | But just about everyone else thought he had brought it on himself . |
| 21 | Perhaps he had brought it on them by not being there . |
| 22 | He had left it on the passenger seat , where it lay , legs in the air , headless rump deep in the upholstery . |
| 23 | For some reason he longed to hear it on her lips . |
| 24 | Apparently a build up of fluff ( so to speak ) clogged its workings and , as he sat to clean it on his lap , passion got the better of him . |