Example sentences of "'s [vb pp] on " in BNC.

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1 If the wind had been stronger or the tide just a touch faster it 's broken on it we 'd be this minute !
2 I pile the CDs on top of the tapes which balance on my redundant vinyl collection that 's heaped on top of the ancient 78s I 've had for years . ’
3 It reads the Touch key when it 's placed on the sensor and uses it as an encryption key to decode data as it 's read and to encode it as it 's written .
4 He might think he 's fallen on his feet but he 'll come to a bad end , you 'll see … ‘
5 threatens to ruin the day , that it 's squandered on this .
6 Everyone who 's commented on the album so far reckons it 's pretty melancholy , but I do n't see it like that at all .
7 Everyone who 's commented on the album so far reckons it 's pretty melancholy , but I do n't see it like that at all .
8 They had spent two nights in bed-and-breakfast accommodation before taking a month 's let on a furnished flat close to Clapham Junction mainline railway station .
9 Meanwhile , the magnificent Harris 's looked on menacingly .
10 Produced by Kenith Trodd , She 's Been Away was a distinctive achievement to match Poliakoff 's and Ashcroft 's Caught On A Train nearly a decade ago .
11 If the comb is n't level , it may be because you did n't put it in symmetrically , or that the weights are n't positioned symmetrically , or it 's caught on the ribber , or you tied the end of the yarn to the clamp when you started .
12 ‘ Your wrap 's caught on a nail , ’ he warned , in a voice with the kind of husky foreign accent which , should he decide to recite the phone book , would still be entirely enchanting .
13 Other children will also fight back , unless she 's picked on a particularly timid child .
14 And when she 's curled on my honoured knee ,
15 " Unless it 's bolted on the inside we ought to be able to get in with these , " he said .
16 But this time the England striker 's shot on the turn was diverted over the bar by Eric Young 's outstretched leg .
17 It 's written on my heart . ’
18 ‘ What 's written on that buoy ? ’ said Titty .
19 If we knew the connection between the poem and what 's written on those sheets , then cracking the code would be child 's play .
20 This is Michael Wayland , who appears on television a lot , and who as a consequence can never remember anything unless it 's written on the Autocue , or held up beside the lens in front of him .
21 DISTILLERY 'S turned on the style at Ballyskeagh yesterday , and the highlight of an impressive team display was the performance of goalkeeper Dave Collins .
22 But the way it 's moved on has been quite good .
23 Well , Matthew Fort , Esquire 's Food Editor , will be able to show you how it 's done on July 23 .
24 " And the work he 's done on the clunch pit case — how long would that have taken ? "
25 ’ We commended Mr Canning very highly for the work that he 's done on that particular churchyard . ’
26 ‘ It 's done on the barrel , ’ said the chairman who much more happily confided that at 59 of course he will be batting and bowling again this summer , ‘ and that 's what it worked out a pint .
27 In the other , the sort he 's just woken from , he becomes an eyewitness to terrible events he 's seen on TV .
28 The nightmare feels quite different from what he 's seen on TV — but he thinks it is closer to the truth .
29 It 's grown on huge farms called plantations , and it has to be planted , as the name suggests , cultivated and harvested , before it can be packed into great ships and sent to us .
30 ‘ It was already here when we moved in and to start with I thought it would make the room seem too gloomy , but it 's grown on me and I really like it now , ’ says Mary Jane , who works part-time as a physiotherapist .
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