Example sentences of "[verb] it [adv] on a " in BNC.
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| 1 | and Ken we used to write it down on a bit of paper who had what and who owed what and |
| 2 | A company enters into a sale and finance leaseback agreement with its pension fund , to sell the fund the company 's headquarters at its current fair market value and then lease it back on a 25 year finance lease . |
| 3 | Elderly patients cower in terror as two nurses battle it out on a ward ! |
| 4 | He was basing it only on a recent knowledge of Trueman and the belief that his committee colleagues are capable of doing whatever it takes to preserve their ill-gotten privileges . ’ |
| 5 | Well we were going to buy er a caravan when my wa er just , just before my husband died we were sort of looking for a caravan , we had gone and paid a deposit , we should have picked it up on a Saturday and he go , he died on a Friday , so I had to cancel and er only this week er I told you did n't I , that they paid my deposit back because it was genuine tragedy , I , I did n't sort of er made it up that I , you know , sometimes you 've paid a deposit and then you 've changed your mind |
| 6 | I tried it out on a modest 386SX and it still felt fast on a big test database . |
| 7 | Because the money lenders were usually Brahmis , the effect of colonialism was to strengthen the caste system and place it firmly on a class basis . |
| 8 | It is easier to bring off if you have an assistant to hold the camcorder , otherwise , you have to set it up on a tripod or some other suitable support and switch it on with a remote control or time-delay . |
| 9 | Till you put it down on a on a field . |
| 10 | put it together on a training session on this and they rely on you and perhaps talk through to the session and say look that when I say this sort of thing , will you be the person that demonstrates or gives me answer you know , this sort of thing . |
| 11 | 1 small twentieth-century ornamental dinner plate with picture of Scarborough Beach ( this is optional , actually , but I always find it adds spice to a tour of a house if , when interest is flagging , you quietly get it out and prop it up on a table and then say innocently to an attendant : ‘ What 's the story behind that plate ? ’ and then wait to see what sort of explanation is invented by someone who has never seen it in his or her life before ) |
| 12 | The H B F figure for Greater York was twelve thousand three hundred , the Barton Willmore figure was twelve thousand seven hundred , but they did break it down on a district basis , and they gave five six five o to Ryedale , and then Michael Courcier , represented by Mr Sedgewick , a much more modest figure of ten thousand six hundred , for Greater York . |
| 13 | He drew in a deep breath , paused for a second and let it out on a sigh . |
| 14 | No wh what I 'm saying is why ca n't we produce the letters off the box let's , can we find out exactly what it would , what , how er if we can find a way of getting this information downloaded onto a disk and then run it off on a straightforward standard letter basis . |
| 15 | Tie the bag at the top , leaving a tiny gap , and lie it flat on a baking sheet or roasting pan . |
| 16 | ‘ Madge brought the material back from Vienna the last time she went on a buying trip — it is not part of the Luxembourg budget , I hasten to add and , wonderful creature that she is , she threw it together on an evening when Wardrobe were n't using one of their machines . ’ |
| 17 | Got it down on a piece of paper . |
| 18 | But say the figure had been erm fo he 's travelling at forty eight point three miles an hour , and you want to know how far he 's gone after twenty seven minutes or something , it 's a bit more awkward then so it 'd be easier to look it up on a graph . |
| 19 | Knot the corners of the cloth , hang it up on a hook with the basin underneath to catch the whey . |
| 20 | By all means practise side-slipping at height , but do n't assume that because you can do it at height you will be able to do it accurately on an approach . |
| 21 | This is best done by spreading it out on a piece of paper and running an algae magnet , wrapped in a polythene bag , over the particles . |
| 22 | She unzipped her dress and hung it decorously on a coat-hanger . |
| 23 | So you can drop it in on a Wednesday drop it in |
| 24 | Or she could set it down on a shelf alongside an empty flower jug . |
| 25 | But anyway we had this one projector which I had winkled out of this friend of mine , and we stuck it up on a couple of stools and hung some sheets up behind the corner of the room which served as a stage , and with some incense burning in the corner an atmosphere was created . |
| 26 | I then produce a 5 by 4 or a 10 by 8 colour transparency and set it up on a light table . |
| 27 | One brave man grabbed a Lewis gun and , to save time , set it up on a rubbish bin rather than the tripod and fired away . |
| 28 | Toby had reappeared with the tray , and set it down on a small marble table , before Jackson was aware of his presence . |
| 29 | Lesley brought in a laden tray , set it down on a side-table , and distributed cups in silence . |
| 30 | Roll it out on a board , dusted with a little icing sugar , to a rough triangle large enough to wrap around and over the top of the cake . |