Example sentences of "it on its [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Dougal grabbed the body 's legs and hauled it on its back to the edge of the gazebo nearest the pond .
2 Set it on its feet , he wrote , and then let it go .
3 So in 1972 a new secretary was appointed for the task , Anthony Gray , who worked away for some years and helped set it on its feet again .
4 He became chairman of the repertory club , and his business sense helped set it on its feet .
5 The event had been going through a lean period and had degenerated into a glorified booze-up , but there were some who were interested in keeping it alive and they got together to decide if they were going to let it go or make an effort to put it on its feet again .
6 If this is the case , then it should be up to defending counsel to set it on its feet and persuade the judge to place the matter before the jury .
7 We provide the Party with its broad base , we keep it on its feet and when necessary we keep those feet firmly on the ground .
8 d ) The tripple rising mains cross under the B1348 and then run roughly parallel to it on its north side heading west .
9 ‘ Presumably , an earlier train coming into the station had hit the bird and lodged it on its bumpers .
10 The current took the dinghy immediately and started it on its way downstream , and I edged past Harry into the stern space behind him and retrieved my piece of pole .
11 Also it is normally possible for the ball to be passed straight to the back without anyone touching it on its way .
12 ‘ Is it on its way ? ’
13 Saskia slammed the lift doors shut while Mogul hit the control to send it on its way .
14 But the thrusting company does have lots of new products in the pipeline , he added , to help it on its way .
15 Though she would n't have helped it on its way either .
16 First , there is the problem of transmitting the huge volumes of data and managing it on its way through a network to users .
17 ‘ The body probably caught up against it on its way downstream , ’ said Owen .
18 Somewhere across the bay of Palma a fiesta was about to break out with the usual volley of deafening rockets to launch it on its way .
19 She had always preferred to take it on its reputation , which was , as I say , not good .
20 Rather than ignore Philips 's cherished necessity principle , the Government turned it on its head .
21 To accomplish this , the spirit has to wander old cemeteries until it finds a human skull , put it on its head and then turn to the North Star .
22 The man who divides a nation between adoration and anger , but an all-time great fly-half who , at 34 , can still control a game — indeed , turn it on its head .
23 Resist that temptation by turning it on its head .
24 With a swift movement he picked up one of the Lal Khals and kissed it on its head .
25 Apparently it 's been practising that technique , and had a sample of the little thing with it on its road trip last week .
26 Because , hopefully , the product of this discussion is that we 'll look at each grant , judge it on its merits , and then come up with what we think 's the right figure .
27 The plan does n't point to Finmere as an area where there 's a resumption in favour of mineral working , so what we will have to do with the Finmere proposals , is to look at it on its merits .
28 Anna twisted to take the phone back , and replaced it on its base .
29 Two centuries later , the Enlightenment returns : but not at all as a way for the West to take cognizance of its present possibilities and of the liberties to which it can have access , but as a way of interrogating it on its limits and on the powers which it has abused .
30 Mention that a species is rare and the world wants it on its mantelpiece or in its collection .
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