Example sentences of "it on [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | wonderful do n't like those , do n't really wan na give you those there are right have I got it on bloody hell mum ! |
| 2 | Was it on eastern worlds and ? |
| 3 | They were rolling it on rusty ball bearings . |
| 4 | On Sept. 25 Bush called the new bill " a bunch of garbage " and threatened to veto it on budgetary grounds . |
| 5 | The client takes out a second application , and they want it on minimum premiums , they actually get it for eighty per cent of the current value of the minimum premium . |
| 6 | You can also work it on other machines which will knit holding position needles to working position on the slip or free pass setting . |
| 7 | She spent it on other things . |
| 8 | The thing is maybe they could keep their extraordinary lifestyle to themselves that way rather than imposing it on other people |
| 9 | Right so you do it on other side and then work out what that comes to , so why did you multiply that side by a hundred ? |
| 10 | ( a ) in saying ‘ Something appears white ’ you are making certain assumptions about language ; you are assuming , for example , that the word ‘ white ’ , or the phrase ‘ appears white ’ , is being used in the way in which you have used it on other occasions , or in the way in which other people have used it . |
| 11 | Becoming very attached to this curious animal he took it on extensive travels until its death . |
| 12 | He had paid it no attention , for the light still reached it only by reflected glimpses ; but Isambard had lived with it on close terms for fifteen years , and knew it line for line and feature for feature . |
| 13 | What had changed was two things , one that the governor of the state had talked about defying the court rather than actually do it and secondly , that Eisenhower had summoned Forbus to see him at Camp David , the president 's summer retreat in Maryland , and had a weekend of talks with Forbus Now I was n't there , I was at primary school then , but I was n't there as far as one can piece it together what , what Eisenhower said to Forbus was , you know , I do n't really care what you do , but I do n't want it on prime time national television , I do n't want a scene , I do n't want you to flagrantly , openly , publicly to flout the order of the court . |
| 14 | The contract consisted of the dealer promising that the car was a ‘ good little bus ’ in return of the customer applying to the finance company to acquire it on hire-purchase terms . |
| 15 | If it accepts , it thereby agrees to purchase the item for cash from the trader and at the same time agrees to transfer it on hire-purchase terms to the customer . |
| 16 | Right : sometimes it 's easier to get the hang of it on dry land |
| 17 | Carrying it over , she placed it on Tweed 's desk , switched it on , found a music programme , kept it on low volume and sat down close to Newman . |
| 18 | The specifically indeterminate forms that inhabit the underside of misericords — birds with human heads , dragons with foliage tails — give way to bats , cats , men — on horseback or performing somersaults under the ledge to balance it on various parts of their anatomy . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Mr Lamont , when pressed on this last night at a meeting of the Conservative back-bench 1922 committee , justified it on environmental grounds , saying that the election pledge had been overtaken by a commitment at the Rio conference in June to cut Britain 's fuel consumption . |
| 21 | It was set up by the government to advise it on environmental policy . |
| 22 | All of that gives it a very encouraging sure-footedness once you try to throw it around a corner or two , or test it on poor road conditions . |
| 23 | A man who has slain Thomas Springall and blamed it on poor Brampton , afterwards making his death look like suicide . |
| 24 | It was also rumoured that Lloyd George might advocate protectionist policies and Baldwin make have called the general election and fought it on protectionist policies in order to undermine any such move by Lloyd George . |
| 25 | Tirpitz lies at the bottom of the local fjord , and every year the local diving club goes down to it on New Year 's Day to retrieve a handful of bits guaranteed to fuel the old fires for another year . |
| 26 | I have it on good assurance |
| 27 | I have it on good authority from the owner 's husband that Homme d'Affaire will take a lot of beating if the going comes up soft for the Waterloo Handicap Hurdle . |
| 28 | I have it on good authority from the owner 's husband that Homme d'Affaire will take a lot of beating if the going comes up soft for the Waterloo Handicap Hurdle . |
| 29 | I have it on good authority that I 'm likely to live . |
| 30 | Of course , America is a different story , and I have it on good authority that Harmonys still abound there . |