Example sentences of "it on a [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the film was , say , Old Mother Riley Goes to Paris , you 'd have three of your doormen dressed up as Old Mother Riley , which was a very cheap costume to hire , and you 'd build an Eiffel Tower , put it on a barrow and go round the town during the busy shopping time . |
| 2 | They heard fairways have been designed for beginners and medium skill players , and the public will be able to use it on a pay and play basis as well as hotel guests . |
| 3 | Already I 've heard aghast whispers about the details of the Milwaukee cannibal : ‘ Do you know , ’ they hiss in your ear , ‘ he cut out one chap 's bicep , fried it on a griddle and ate it for his breakfast ? ’ |
| 4 | Well I mean I 've known this bloke , if somebody 's gon na do something like that whether they see it on a film or not , I still go out and do it , they make it . |
| 5 | If you use a stick-microphone , support it on a stand and position it as close as possible while allowing enough room for you to handle the script without rustling noises getting onto the recording . |
| 6 | Henry took the heavily laden tray from Peggy 's hands and put it on a side-table as Lizzie said , ‘ Did she have her dinner and tea all at once ? ’ |
| 7 | Mr Duckett says : ‘ However poor the local infrastructure , with VSAT you can lay in the communications by literally packaging up the dish , putting it on a lorry and sending it to the site . |
| 8 | And while she was having a whisky and eating a piece of cake at eleven o'clock , in a hapless impulse to demonstrate and somehow fix her freebooting mood — though she saw the irrationality of it on a day that had begun with a clear insight that at least she would try to equal his thinness even if she could never hope to achieve the frugality of his expectations — just as she was leaving the last part of the cake , she would think of a better way to write the note . |
| 9 | But those symbols of fire and of wind are useful because when we say God is in us , when we say the Holy Spirit is in us , we ca n't actually grab anything and say you know we ca n't actually put it on a video and say , that little bit to the right of my heart is the Holy Spirit . |
| 10 | That is why that man said you will not get any more special offers on a Fri Saturday night because they ca n't sell it on a Sunday so you used to see them selling things off on a Saturday five o'clock . |
| 11 | Put it on a plate and find a quiet place to sit where you will not be disturbed by other people , by the radio or by the telephone . |
| 12 | He rolled it between two fingers and tapped it on a thumbnail and generally fondled it as I knew he would for a good five minutes before lighting it . |
| 13 | Sit it on a hill and wait till the enemy is within half range and then let fly . |
| 14 | It sounded as though she 'd left it on a bus or something . |
| 15 | He had realised , for instance , when Martha was born , that he would do well to take flowers to the hospital , but not that if you buy an azalea in winter and carry it on a bus and through a number of cold streets , all the buds will drop off before you arrive . |
| 16 | I do n't remember what happened to the cross-over , I rather think I foisted it on a mother before I moved house . |
| 17 | As a treat for puffy eyes and dark shadows , grate half a raw , peeled potato , then leave it on a saucer until the juice collects . |
| 18 | They recorded information on the circumstances of the death and the symptoms and signs that preceded it on a form that included both an open history of the final illness and screening questions for the presence of common symptoms , followed by the application of appropriate modules with precoded answers . |
| 19 | He never does it on a path or nothing , he always reverses in somewhere . |
| 20 | He finishes the note , sticks it on a pole and then jumps off the building , floating delightedly in slow motion behind the credits . |
| 21 | Pull it in to the small boat , lay it on a box and then we 'd pull the chain in by hand and then we 'd rerun it further up the river . |
| 22 | So you 've got the right idea of dividing it by eight , but you needed to take it on a stage and see what the was . |
| 23 | ‘ Holiday acted like a raging bull , picking up a chair , smashing it on a table and throwing it at bottles behind the bar , ’ he said . |
| 24 | In Benny 's house , where she was considered a very pampered only child , she had to borrow the kitchen radio and then perch it on a chair because there was n't any socket near enough to her bed to plug it in . |
| 25 | All you do , is you mark it on an item if you 're gon na do the television do not do the screens , because every time you turn on up will come your postcode . |