Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] it on " in BNC.
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| 1 | The case of the chartered accountant who has just been found guilty of a serious reckless driving offence only came to the Institute 's attention by chance , when an Investigation Committee member heard about it on the radio . |
| 2 | At rehearsals , Les Cox agreed it would be wiser not to practise falling down the stairs as it was a skill which took months to acquire — better just to go for it on the night . |
| 3 | Muted sounds , and , once , a cry of pain , came from behind the closed doors that led off it on either side . |
| 4 | I asked for it on Wednesday , she 's gone me one , she put in this bag and |
| 5 | He had drowned , unable to move , when the rising tide had filled the channel : Marie remembered seeing about it on the local television news . |
| 6 | I 'll think about it on the way home . ’ |
| 7 | If there 's a traffic jam anywhere the new information unit will let you know about it on the hour as well . |
| 8 | because you know the kind of material we 're recording bad language is n't gon na get an appropriate representation , and he 's not to worry about it on that |
| 9 | It is dealt with in detail here because visitors in search of out of the way spots are almost certain to pass through it on their way to Appenzell , or even to break their journey here . |
| 10 | ‘ I could see you grappling with it on a daily basis , ’ he drawled softly . |
| 11 | Knitweave can be thought of as a stocking stitch fabric with the weaving yarn caught into it on the purl side . |
| 12 | There was no sign of it on the surface — the track was probably carried over it on sleepers , long embedded in the mud of years — and the entrance to the drain was completely hidden by long grass . |
| 13 | nineteen thousand three hundred people have objected to it on petition . |
| 14 | I 've looked at it on both sides , from different angles and colour is something to do with it . |
| 15 | They 'd looked at it on Sunday . |
| 16 | I have come across it on the American networks , where all script conferences are attended by a legal-looking chap whose only contribution is to say ’ We do not want to offend any groups ’ from time to time . |
| 17 | And the curly-haired bint would not be walking across it on her way home from the pictures . |
| 18 | … the novel is destined to be perceived from within itself — the same as the real world … to enjoy a novel we must feel surrounded by it on all sides … |
| 19 | Only I would have probably braked , changed down ended up in second and crept past it on the inside and then speeded up again . |
| 20 | Robyn herself would disapprove of it on ideological grounds , and it might be interpreted by other students as creeping . |
| 21 | Well I , I had n't heard of it on the telly , I |
| 22 | Chirk , trying to retain a hint of character despite the volume of traffic that passes through it on the A5 , came and went , then , across the River Ceiriog and out of Wales into England . |
| 23 | ‘ Listen , I do n't want to talk about it on the phone . |
| 24 | His office would n't want to talk about it on the telephone , because my father has not been well , and at times has been behaving rather strangely . |
| 25 | They was looking for it on a list . |
| 26 | Now , new offices were being built for it on the other side of the road , but they were not quite ready , and meantime , the new publisher from the East and his editors functioned in an atmosphere of such utter confusion that it is doubtful if an efficiency expert could even have fought his way in through the door . |
| 27 | I cut through it on each side and did the same to the binding on his ankles . |
| 28 | It occurred to me that you might plan it as one great central shed with bays let off it on each side . |
| 29 | He narrowly avoided collisions with two cars as he drove onto the western bypass and forced the pursuing police car to take evasive action when he drove towards it on another road . |
| 30 | Sandys ' personal commitment involved disagreement with his senior civil servants who advised against it on the grounds that it would arouse opposition from the urban local authorities and private developers who would be forced to seek sites beyond the green belt . |