Example sentences of "it on a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A group of Turkish workers in South London buy lamb and bread and take it on a coach to the striking miners in Wales ( 1984 ) . |
| 2 | So , for the remit 's specification of industrial democracy , the rationale has to be this : that officials or , for that matter , ordinary members of the union , elected or deputed to represent it on a board of directors , would be accountable to the membership which would replace them if it judged their performance to be unsatisfactory . |
| 3 | Why do n't you do it on a calculator ? |
| 4 | How do you do it on a calculator ? |
| 5 | Anyway , have n't you seen how canny Labour and the Liberal Democrats are playing it on a pact between the two of them ? |
| 6 | How does a woman with a large inheritance commonly bestow it on a man ? |
| 7 | If the film was , say , Old Mother Riley Goes to Paris , you 'd have three of your doormen dressed up as Old Mother Riley , which was a very cheap costume to hire , and you 'd build an Eiffel Tower , put it on a barrow and go round the town during the busy shopping time . |
| 8 | It was only when The Sun newspaper displayed it on a girl in a highly provocative pose that she realized how easily the purity of the image could be sullied . |
| 9 | The thing that you do best , which is playing guitar and doing it on a level which is artistic and creative , not only is that challenging but it 's satisfying too … ’ |
| 10 | I caught it on a door handle |
| 11 | Knighton , now owner of Carlisle United , blamed the board for allowing Leeds to take the title , saying : ‘ United had money in the bank and should have spent it on a striker at Christmas . |
| 12 | He had last seen it on a dresser , surrounded by brass souvenirs . |
| 13 | We tried tooth and nail and finally impaled it on a thorn tree , tugging at it until the branch flew off and hurtled us into a ditch . |
| 14 | I 've never seen it on a wall in a real house before . |
| 15 | We plot it on a wall at home . |
| 16 | Jelinek trained his system on a corpus of 1,500,000 words and tested it on a test corpus of 300,000 . |
| 17 | ‘ No , I 've got a little bit , but I do n't want to waste it on a hotel . |
| 18 | which is not a very , but what I 'm saying to Graham is if we do it on a slip road like , cos , cos I 've never done one before , if you , you 'd have to have warning signs if you got a census on the slip coming off |
| 19 | They meandered along under the old overhanging house fronts and Jack had to duck his head to avoid cracking it on a lamp in an iron cage . |
| 20 | They heard fairways have been designed for beginners and medium skill players , and the public will be able to use it on a pay and play basis as well as hotel guests . |
| 21 | ‘ Christopher got this money and spent it on a holiday skiing . |
| 22 | Every hour after the operation , a nurse took his temperature and plotted it on a progress ' graph . |
| 23 | Hazel heard its beak hit a pebble in the grass with a sound like a snail-shell when a thrush beats it on a stone . |
| 24 | So the universe does seem to be roughly the same in every direction , provided one views it on a scale large compared to the distance between galaxies , and ignores the differences on small scales . |
| 25 | Charles exploited it on a scale his predecessors had not needed to try . |
| 26 | If clinical depression represents impoverishment of the ego on a grand scale , then here we have it on a scale which can only be called grander still : that of an entire culture , a complete philosophy of life . |
| 27 | The likelihood of finding it on a University reading list , or even in a University library , would be slight , though the books of Roberts 's lifelong friend George Gissing do have a place in the approved literary canon . |
| 28 | She had seen mention of it on a newspaper placard earlier that morning . |
| 29 | Three months after the executions , he wrote his vignette , probably basing it on a newspaper account he read in the Paris edition of the New York Tribune ( Baker 1969 : 108 ; Reynolds 1972 : 82 ) . |
| 30 | It was obvious that to base it on a villa one would need to have full access to the whole site and many more seasons — I imagined at least 15 . |