Example sentences of "she [verb] [verb] it on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Newman had kept the conversation general , fending Evelyn off when she tried to bring it on a more personal basis . |
| 2 | Of course at that time we did n't realise she 'd done it on purpose . |
| 3 | She looked the same as usual ; untidy , a hole in her coat where she 'd caught it on a hook in the yard . |
| 4 | Jess did n't add she 'd brought it on herself , being too liberal with the gin bottle after swilling strong beer with her food . |
| 5 | She winced , surprised to find how much she was hurt by the stinging acid in his voice , even though she knew she 'd brought it on herself . |
| 6 | It sounded as though she 'd left it on a bus or something . |
| 7 | She had seen it on the table on her Wednesday visit and had said : |
| 8 | This he read in the lavatory , where she had seen it on the first day . |
| 9 | The previous week she had posted it on Tuesday , having written it the day after Effie 's death in a white heat of sorrow and indignation . |
| 10 | Jane suspected that she had brought it on herself . |
| 11 | By a stroke of luck , she had spotted it on a colleague 's bookshelf before lunch . |
| 12 | Hosanna started to smell the debris where she had put it on the marble top of the kitchen dresser and she shouted at him so that he darted out into the yard . |
| 13 | When the envelope had arrived she had put it on the mantelpiece in the small sitting-room , but almost at once she had decided to take it more closely into her possession . |
| 14 | She had bought it on a trip to Munich with the League of European Women . |
| 15 | So I said no , so I 'd better get on with my cooking , so she said oh she said done it on pur colour co-ordinated , I 'm a bit more colour co-ordinated than that I was yesterday I had a |
| 16 | ‘ Sandwich , ’ she said putting it on a plate bearing the legend LNER . |
| 17 | She 's written it on the top of the letter . |
| 18 | So er that was good to remember and she 's got another wedding cake in August I do n't know where she 's got it on the production line . |
| 19 | I mean , she 's got it on this morning , open with a Benetton |
| 20 | " She 's brought it on herself with overeating , " said Kevin . |