Example sentences of "[vb past] it on " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you drew it on your graph it would be quite steep and it would look as if you were going up ten centimetres for every centimetre you went along which is almost vertical . |
| 2 | ‘ There was a scholarship going at one of the drama schools , you see , and I entered it on impulse . |
| 3 | He was in a fix — he had bought two papers and merged them together , and I was n't around , I was in New York , and I did the logo for him in a hurry , but I did n't have time to design a newspaper , nor was it the kind of thing for which he could pay a big design fee , so he described it on the phone and then he faxed me some pages of the existing papers , and I said well what you have to do is look at the old London Times and do that . |
| 4 | She took a playful swipe at his face , but Harvey caught it on the flat of his hand , then she struck at him with the palm of the other hand and they did a pat-a-cake routine . |
| 5 | Just had one jumped over the side from us once and swamp ashore again and we caught it on the on the land again and put it away . |
| 6 | I caught it on a rack in the |
| 7 | I caught it on a door handle |
| 8 | I seen it on the News — |
| 9 | In Germany the privilege of driving it was handed to Mario Andretti who crashed it on the first lap . |
| 10 | Already I 've heard aghast whispers about the details of the Milwaukee cannibal : ‘ Do you know , ’ they hiss in your ear , ‘ he cut out one chap 's bicep , fried it on a griddle and ate it for his breakfast ? ’ |
| 11 | The news that Amstrad Plc had a hot new personal communicator product on the way should have been in the market for a couple of weeks now — we reported it on March 1 ( CI No 2,117 ) but these things take time to filter through and it was only on Tuesday that the shares really began to respond , putting on 3.75 pence ; they added another 3.5 pence to 34.75 pence yesterday morning . |
| 12 | He re-emphasised it on another occasion : ‘ I identify with this notion … |
| 13 | The reason we built it on this particular spot is this is the ash flurry from the boilers from the bottom there of the er power station and er it 's contents of slurry dried out , dried out and graded , well once nice and flat like this it gives the bird an ideal opportunity to at high tide and they can see around , there 's no vegetation , it 's very bad ground , and er , that is load of ducks , a good numbers of er oystercatchers , they do n't sometimes , which is really nice and so easy to count them now cos when the tide is out and you 've got the , the mud flats of course they 're spread out , now they 're nicely condensed down here , so it 's great , great little position for us you know , that 's all courtesy of the bottom of the boiler , you know , you know , give us this nice |
| 14 | They mentioned it on BBC TV yesterday . |
| 15 | I think they mentioned it on the video . |
| 16 | We approached it on the basis of er , collecting information on the Children in Need definition which a , er , a paper came before you when the Children 's Act was implemented , and that gives local discretion to authorities to , to define Children in need . |
| 17 | It was a royal monopoly , and an earlier King Arkesilas is depicted on a Spartan vase of the mid-sixth century supervising his officials as they weighed it on a man-size balance ( Chamoux , Cyrene , plate vi . |
| 18 | He looked at the cigarette , almost burnt-out between nicotine-stained fingers , and stubbed it on his plate again and again until it was quite crumpled . |
| 19 | Scott was so pleased with the style he had evolved at Battersea , a treatment that humanised industrial forms without denying their function , that he also used it on the Guinness Factory at Park Royal , west London . |
| 20 | ‘ The Yorkshire Evening Post ( YEP ) used it on the front page with a by-line . |
| 21 | He used the whip on Gallagher , but Gallagher managed to take it away from him and then used it on him . ’ |
| 22 | The 10.20am from Paddington to Oxford , which arrived early when the soverign used it on Thursday , was four minutes late without her on board . |
| 23 | I always used it on the tongue or used dexies and black bombers , y'know , swallowed pills and things . |
| 24 | We used it on the ship , to keep the chickens ' food in . |
| 25 | Miss Menzies had filled it with petrol on the Friday afternoon and used it on the Monday morning . |
| 26 | That was when they used it on him . |
| 27 | Sometimes they used it on him when he was waiting to be served by a barman , or even when he was just standing waiting to cross a busy street , but mostly it was when he was talking to somebody official . |
| 28 | Used it on gala day . |
| 29 | I thought that if I never tried it on my own , I would always wonder whether I could . ’ |
| 30 | We tried it on carpets , upholstery , wall tiles , windows , wood and vinyl floors , inside an oven , on a lawnmower , a motorbike , and for defrosting a freezer . |