Example sentences of "it [adv prt] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a shower she put it on with a frown , worried that it really was going to live up to her expectations , teamed up with seamed black tights and her new black slingback shoes . |
| 2 | We looked in vain in Siemens AG 's first half report on Monday for any mention of its Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG computer subsidiary , and with all the dreadful economic news coming out of Germany , it began to assume the air of the dog that did n't bark : Siemens said of its overall business that it did not show any revival in the first half , and that continued economic decline affected domestic business and led to a decline in incoming orders , and there was no recovery in its foreign business ; laying it on with a trowel , Chancellor Helmut Kohl 's leading economic advisor was quoted on Tuesday as saying that German workers failed to recognise the danger of high wages in a time of recession , and that German products were too expensive for world markets as wage increases outpaced growth in productivity , and earlier , Siemens Nixdorf had had to rebut a magazine report that its losses would be even worse this year , saying that it was certain that its results would improve this fiscal year ; the article , in Manager Magazin , also said that Siemens was looking for a replacement for Siemens Nixdorf management board chairman Hans-Dieter Wiedig , and added that plans to reduce the workforce to 41,000 by 1995 from 47,200 at the end of February could well be accelerated . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'd really like a smoke first , ’ I croaked , laying it on with a trowel . |
| 4 | He was a nice man , and she quite liked him , but where Ven 's charm came naturally , Lubor was laying it on with a trowel . |
| 5 | You might try it on with a girl in the park who turns out to be a policewoman in disguise . |
| 6 | Thin and you just stick it on with a glue . |
| 7 | Do you find that sometimes members of the public try it on with the insurance people ? |
| 8 | it on with the music blaring . |
| 9 | I was a bit worried when we were trying it on with the passes . |
| 10 | I wish now I had sent it on with the rest of the clothes but I did n't want to risk crushing it . ’ |
| 11 | Carefully wrap the fondant around the cake , rolling it on with the paper to help you . |
| 12 | ‘ They 're trying it on with the application . |
| 13 | I WAS told this story of a young single mother , and I pass it on as an example of life in this grand country . |
| 14 | You use this both to anchor the sledge during a trip , by stamping it into the snow , and at the start of each day to hold the sledge , by clunking it on to a tree trunk . |
| 15 | Two waiting men in boiler suits carefully wrapped the corpse inside a canvas swathe , lifted it on to a stretcher , removed it from the room on their way downstairs . |
| 16 | She darted past him and opened the door that led to the store-room , then helped somewhat ineffectually as he dragged the mattress through and hefted it on to a stack of boxes . |
| 17 | And the only thing that seems to stand in the way of doing anything commercially sensible with County Farms is that every time we deal with it , somebody says , ah , but it can only exist as an entity , let's keep it as that , let's pass it on to a trust , let's safeguard it , let's do this and that . |
| 18 | Maurin spun the gun in his hand , tossed it on to a stool . |
| 19 | We used to get a collar of rope , manilla rope , put it on to a truck and used to stretch it out first and then cut off the lengths . |
| 20 | Yeah if we could download it on to a P C |
| 21 | The Firefly , owned by Jim Connell , of Gatley Drive , Maghull , near Liverpool , had almost sunk when rescuers managed to haul it on to a slipway and take it back to Douglas . |
| 22 | One of mankind 's first artistic gestures was to cover his hand with charcoal and press it on to a cave wall : ‘ I , man , was here ! ’ |
| 23 | Give him one part , now you hold that , I used to hook it on to a roller , tuck it over , pull it through and then you 've got it lined up hooked on to a roller . |
| 24 | The next step is to invert the spray container and slide it on to a rack . |
| 25 | The liners are then deposited in a recycling cage to await collection by a waste contractor who , in turn , empties the liners , bales the paper and sells it on to a pulp manufacturer . |
| 26 | When a retailer has placed an order with a manufacturer , he enters it on to a stock record card . |
| 27 | The order form will help us to trace your purchase and link it on to an ad in What Personal Computer . |
| 28 | Spitting it on to the floor , he raised the half-empty bottle to his lips and drank down the fiery vodka in great gulps , as if to drown the useless curses which rose in his throat . |
| 29 | He pulled the brassiere from her body and dropped it on to the floor . |
| 30 | He wanted to pick up something from the breakfast table and throw it on to the floor , the plate from which Mr Blakey had eaten his fry , the apricot jam , the tea-pot , the bundle of knives and forks that Kate had collected and put on top of the pile of green cereal bowls . |