Example sentences of "it on the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over a quarter of a century , most of it on the front bench . |
| 2 | The Rosewood 's very close to a Jazzmaster sometimes , actually , because it 's very sweet ; when you put it on the front pickup it 's very mellow . |
| 3 | Left it on the front doorstep ! |
| 4 | ‘ The Yorkshire Evening Post ( YEP ) used it on the front page with a by-line . |
| 5 | When I had eaten the first course of cabbage , and the second of meat pudding , potato and carrots , I poured cold water into my used billycan and put it on the lighted stove . |
| 6 | Walter made quite a business from stealing rationed food from the grocer he worked for and selling it on the black market , while Theo dealt mostly in men 's clothes which he shifted on to a second-hand dealer who paid ready cash . |
| 7 | ‘ I found it on the barbed wire . |
| 8 | I 'm grateful , that 's for today , erm my Lord it may sound slightly more erm contentious , but I 'd also ask for certificate for counsel for the thirteenth of August hearing , may I say the reason for that , it 's a matter that has n't come before you , you wo n't know about , it 's this , this reason , because at that period it was n't just the application under twenty eighty or twenty eight , four for delay there was another application er , which was unsuccessful which has n't been proceed today , but cost were also disallowed with more serious reason , I submit that said showed er negligent or that improper conduct , there was a substantial attack mounted , and I can use no other words fairly describe it on the professional conduct of and for that reason my Lord er both cos the seriousness of the allegations , but of course also because of the potential conflict that they acted for themselves and it would of been in situation for us solicitor hence to turn up , er they instructed counsel and my self , and so for that double reason in my believe we should be entitled to at , at first stage , ordinarily I would n't of had a very good run for argument but I , it 's my suspicion my clue recollection , be backed up by those behind me , and indeed by the documents that a substantial attack was mounted and it was in , I have to say in full flight terms , and much hence could n't be said to be unreasonable to deem if necessarily , unusually to send counsel in front of a taxing master , well I wo n't say any more on the point , but that is my suspicion |
| 9 | He completed it about the end of 1839 , and quickly mastered the art of riding it on the rough country roads , so that he was soon accustomed to making the fourteen-mile journey to Dumfries in less than an hour . |
| 10 | Alice set down the case and violin and wiped her face on her sleeve , wiped it on the rough wool sleeve of her winter coat . |
| 11 | Then I remembered that , in the car was the last red rose from Bayeux — I placed it on the rough ground outside the house , and prayed for the family whose happy , safe home it had once been . |
| 12 | And at once I could smell it on the tied-on head-cushion — that same elusive , old-fashioned perfume of the towel , of the glove . |
| 13 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 14 | But when it is dumped unceremoniously before you with a mound of inappropriate green peas and a pool of cold tartare sauce spreading beside it on the hot plate , then your appetite begins to seep away … |
| 15 | Nathan closed the folder and laid it on the starched tablecloth . |
| 16 | I 've felt for sometime we needed to put more pressure on Welsh Office ministers who I feel are having a pretty easy time of it on the environmental front . |
| 17 | As the paving is all made from broken paving slabs and , therefore , all the same thickness , you simply lay it on the levelled sand bed . |
| 18 | Yes , I 'll shall put it on the spare bedroom bed , not that there 's a lot of room on there , but still . |
| 19 | Understand that you are not shutting the door on the one you loved , but you are shutting it on the negative force that lived — or still lives — within them . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | He found it on the far side , punched the red button and watched the big metal doors start to move . |
| 22 | The construction company , John Mowlem , Hants to build it on the central pier dividing the Royal Albert dock and the King George V dock . |
| 23 | Soon it will be Pesach and I think this year I will celebrate it on the correct date . |
| 24 | They arrived at a place where the river was fast and deep , and Angel started to cross it on the narrow footbridge , still holding Tess . |
| 25 | He had put it on the draining board . |
| 26 | With the authority of a man used to calling hounds to heel he 'd taken the arm from the dog , wrapped it in a towel and set it on the draining board . |
| 27 | I 've done m is there , are there any gaps in between , if you put it on the good quality like , can you see any spaces ? |
| 28 | On opening any packet etc , I can see from the index card how long it is likely to last and then record it on the appropriate page of the notebook . |
| 29 | To illustrate this I punched a row on a punchcard of six punched holes and six blanks , alternating it on the one row . |
| 30 | Make and have represent it on the one hand merely as the producing of an effect ( controlling the production of an effect in the case of have ) . |