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

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1 As I say , nowadays I get the information from you over the phone , and then when we 've got somebody who said Oh no , it 's only a small flat , I 've got this this and this and that 's the big pieces of furniture , er if it 's somebody that 's done it on spec I say Well look give me a ring back in an hour if er when you 've come off the phone you er there 's something you 've forgotten .
2 And then , I always put it on hanger I can tell you .
3 Put it on Neighbours it 's an alibi
4 No I did n't do it on purpose I 'm sorry I 'll try and stop
5 When Smith was recommending it on television he said , ‘ I wish we could get beyond colour as the criterion and choose to be governed by the best men for the job . ’
6 I 've got it on tape I can prove it .
7 But what I 'd like to do is I 'm gon na set it on rollers I 'm gon na blow dry the top I 'm gon na
8 I 'd rather have it on bread I said .
9 If you do n't like to watch it on television there is the switch off !
10 I think no mine are too thin , or maybe their not , and , and this , and seeing this in magazines , seeing it on television it make 's me think that maybe I could have that
11 He said make-up was all very well for some people , but he hated to see it on girls who were n't the right type — implying I suppose , that I ought to wear woollen stockings and teach in a Sunday school !
12 Every penny of that meagre capital represented a pleasure foregone , a temptation denied , yet now I found myself wasting it on meals I did n't want with people who regarded me as a poor relative .
13 He goes , go on then , I pre got it on Simon I reckon it must of thought about it do you know why ?
14 But you ca n't I only get it on line one because line two I just use as an a as an incoming call line , or if I 'm .
15 If you can put it on paper someone comes back : ‘ What about so-and-so ? ’
16 Oh , do it on Sunday who cares about Lynn ?
17 I think if the committee did that then we 'd be back to what five or six years ago , when a whole afternoon was spent on that and I would n't commend that to you , but can we perhaps have a word with the officers at a later stage , take it on board what both Graham and Anne have been saying , and obviously not trying to do that in a meeting like this but try to prepare for it a month before-hand .
18 I said , ah no and everyone in the class just cracked up sometimes you wonder , you wonder whether he does it on purpose he must do it on purpose , no one can be that thick
19 He had even had the gall to blame it on Folly herself ; to say it would never have happened if she had been more ‘ reasonable ’ .
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