Example sentences of "by [verb] it on " in BNC.
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| 1 | He embraces suicide as deed , as the one true act in a false world , as supreme podvig , as feat to end feats , God-killing , god-making ; and in doing so he exemplifies , as others before and Ivan Karamazov after him , the truth that Dostoevsky can only satisfy his hunger for crisis and clarity by bestowing it on the enemy . |
| 2 | A model of the language is created by training it on some text that is already available . |
| 3 | THE BRAIN EMO story PART 2 : ‘ He tried to change the world by turning it on its side and calling it something else ’ |
| 4 | Resist that temptation by turning it on its head . |
| 5 | There is no way the farmer can deal with the output of hundreds of animals simply by spreading it on the fields . |
| 6 | The virus is activated when the computer program is ‘ executed ’ by running it on a computer . |
| 7 | A second way of facing our question concerning the superiority of telescopic to naked-eye observations is to demonstrate the effectiveness of the telescope in a practical way , by focusing it on distant towers , ships , etc. and demonstrating how the instrument magnifies and renders objects more distinctly visible . |
| 8 | By spending it on advertising if it 's not successful . |
| 9 | We camped upriver from the falls , stalling the leap into the chasm of some of the water by boiling it on the Trangia and making it into Earl Grey tea . |
| 10 | This attack on the argument for what I have called the traditional Marxist account of the state begins by taking it on its own terms . |
| 11 | He thought that the discount for contingencies should be comparatively small and that the £10,000 the widow received from the estate should give rise to a deduction of £200 from the annual dependency for the accelerated benefit that she received by obtaining it on his death . |
| 12 | The argument I have advanced aims to shake a widespread and intuitive adherence to individualism by putting it on a par with its holist rival . |
| 13 | None of us thinks we can manage this business by putting it on autopilot , ’ he says . |
| 14 | if an aircraft does come back it would be an ideal way of getting our market share back from by putting it on the east coast |
| 15 | Sit on a stool and massage one foot at a time by placing it on your thigh , knee bent up at a right angle . |
| 16 | Then , by placing it on the board again , you can lie down and paddle home . |
| 17 | The rouble became progressively stronger and in 1897 foreign confidence was ensured by placing it on the gold standard . |
| 18 | However , since this is a bit like buying a hat by trying it on your foot , it 's no wonder there is so much unused make-up in most bathrooms across the country . |
| 19 | ‘ A smudge of make-up rubbed on the back of the hand , a lot of agonising … it 's like buying a hat by trying it on your foot ’ |
| 20 | The children are not allowed to touch the fish with the paper and try to move it along by hitting it on the floor to create a draught . |
| 21 | Her Majesty has honoured the Works by visiting it on three occasions , the first on 11 March 1948 as Princess Elizabeth , when she toured the Works and inspected the two new saloons that had been converted from two ex-Chairman 's Saloons ( built Wolverton 1942 ) for the personal use of herself and the Duke of Edinburgh . |
| 22 | He also hopes to exploit the Burke 's name by reproducing it on the labels of clarets , burgundies and champagnes . |