Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] it on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Allowance of the defence of truth , with the burden of proving it on the defendant , does not mean that only false speech will be deterred . |
| 2 | So they just sort of put it on the market to see if it would sell ? |
| 3 | Should of had it on the card and tucked it in |
| 4 | He completed it about the end of 1839 , and quickly mastered the art of riding it on the rough country roads , so that he was soon accustomed to making the fourteen-mile journey to Dumfries in less than an hour . |
| 5 | Well I mean I know that twenty percent is twenty pound in a hundred , but what 's a quick way of doing it on the calculator . |
| 6 | The engine ran smooth and strong after several hours of running it on the ground . |
| 7 | Trials for the signalling system have been accelerated as BR examines the feasibility of introducing it on the entire 11,000-mile network . |
| 8 | He let his mind play with that again , the idea of making it on the box . |
| 9 | It made me really sick that I had nt listened to the Liverpool Scum match 2 years ago on the radio — instead of watching it on the box . |
| 10 | She removed his wet topcoat , and gave it a shake before hanging it on the hall-stand . |
| 11 | It is a skilled exercise which needs careful instruction and supervision before attempting it on the approach with full airbrake . |
| 12 | He drew on it , then took it out of his mouth and nipped the end off before dropping it on the floor . |
| 13 | The applicants accepted that the justices had jurisdiction to make such an order but contended that they had erred in law in making it on the facts of this case . |
| 14 | After crouching by it for several minutes , sifting through the contents , he uttered a triumphant ‘ Aha ! ’ and pulled out a large framed photograph , from which he blew a cloud of dust before placing it on the desk and inviting Harry to look at it . |
| 15 | And he rattled a cornflake packet before setting it on the table nearest the door . |
| 16 | But I am content to rest my conclusion in rejecting it on the simple ground , which closely reflects the reasoning I have already deployed in rejecting the board 's construction of section 18 , that the words in subsection ( 2 ) ‘ an order for payment … to the unassisted party … of the costs incurred by him in the proceedings ’ can only apply to costs incurred by the unassisted party in his capacity as such . |
| 17 | The answer is to unwind some of the absurdities of the intervention system which mean that far too much money is devoted to financing the depreciation of beef rather than to putting it on the table . |
| 18 | She had not visited Jackdaw Cottage since putting it on the market two months ago . |
| 19 | It follows that we see no case for placing it on the semi-statutory footing proposed by the select committee . |
| 20 | I 'm gon na lay it on the |
| 21 | I 'm gon na lay it on the board |
| 22 | Well you do n't wan na put it on the ship do you ? |
| 23 | You wan na put it on the table where it 's actually . |
| 24 | No , I 'm not gon na , I 'm not gon na say it on the tape , ! |
| 25 | He embraces suicide as deed , as the one true act in a false world , as supreme podvig , as feat to end feats , God-killing , god-making ; and in doing so he exemplifies , as others before and Ivan Karamazov after him , the truth that Dostoevsky can only satisfy his hunger for crisis and clarity by bestowing it on the enemy . |
| 26 | There is no way the farmer can deal with the output of hundreds of animals simply by spreading it on the fields . |
| 27 | We camped upriver from the falls , stalling the leap into the chasm of some of the water by boiling it on the Trangia and making it into Earl Grey tea . |
| 28 | if an aircraft does come back it would be an ideal way of getting our market share back from by putting it on the east coast |
| 29 | Then , by placing it on the board again , you can lie down and paddle home . |
| 30 | The rouble became progressively stronger and in 1897 foreign confidence was ensured by placing it on the gold standard . |