Example sentences of "[verb] on [conj] it [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another task force member , a young Indonesian zoologist named Jack West , added , ‘ Also if we wait until next year and the logging goes on as it has , there will be no trees left to keep the elephants on their trail . ’ |
| 2 | It means that Mrs Thatcher 's great reforming legacy is safe and will be built on and it means that Britain 's Euro-sceptic approach to Maastricht will dominate our coming Euro-presidency at a time when the federalist dream is turning sour all over Europe . |
| 3 | You send it round , what they want training on and it comes back to the manager |
| 4 | Mr Wallace acknowledged that his own ideas for a Scottish parliamentary council were unlikely to proceed , but a campaign for a multi-option referendum was ‘ the only thing we can all unite on as it encompasses all our differences ’ . |
| 5 | Also , as compared with a shot in which the subject traverses the picture directly from one side to the other , the diagonal movement gives the eye longer in which to take in what is going on and it reduces the need to pan the camera to follow the subject . |
| 6 | erm like you we read the first passage and it was kind of what 's what 's all this about if you was n't in the room and you did n't know what was being you have n't got a clue what was going on because it does n't tell you , but the rest of the sections that put down they do give a sort of brief analysis |
| 7 | We got about twenty panels at work and on the panel there 's a little plastic thing stuck on and it needs four keys and one . |
| 8 | By reducing the probability that a firm will fail and by reducing creditors ' potential losses in the event of difficulty , this helps to reduce the costs a firm takes on as it takes bigger risks and nears bankruptcy . |
| 9 | But the show will go on if it does . |
| 10 | ‘ It 's hard to believe the amount of work that 's gone on and it 's all been voluntary . ’ |
| 11 | Thank you so if I press play and record now twenty one thirty , twenty two thirty it 's half past ten thirty five to half past ten that 's alright so if I press play and record now it should come on at wha one and a half and ten one forty so it should come on when it says one forty . |
| 12 | And the good news is that this mind-boggling occasion will not be spoilt by the Welsh team trotting on when it has all finished … |
| 13 | It might of course have been a more acceptable blue when it was put on because it changes |
| 14 | For the enthusiast , a second innings might be played to determine the outcome , with a side following on if it fails to come within an agreed number of runs of its opponents score . |
| 15 | Previous page : Greet visitors or intruders with a passive infra-red light , which comes on when it senses body heat at night . |