Example sentences of "it [conj] [verb] [pron] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , a disabled plaintiff may require a motor car equipped with special devices to enable him to get in and out of it or to control it on the road . |
| 2 | Decisions are usually reached by consensus , rather than by a senior manager taking a decision and selling it or imposing it on his subordinates . |
| 3 | And they 'll read it from that point of view , and they 'll accept it or reject it on that basis . |
| 4 | It happens that what we 've done is we 've taken it and hung it on the starlight , the magic of starlight — how wonderful it is , how much you can tell from just looking at a star through a telescope and measuring the light that comes out of it , and this takes us into realms of why a star shines ; what do you mean by time when you go back millions of years into the universe lifetime ; what do you mean , why do stars shine with different colours . |
| 5 | But he had written all over this one — the handwriting was unmistakable — before tearing it and throwing it on the floor . |
| 6 | This was the station where the fire had been , she had read about it and seen it on television . |
| 7 | Its first owners were a noble Florentine family — the Pucci family — who through the generations , owned it , lost it and repossessed it on several occasions . |
| 8 | However , when I stripped the pump off the block , cleaned it and left it on the workbench , I noticed it had leaked a small amount of oil from a 1.5mm hole located near the back underside of the pump . |
| 9 | I washed and sterilised it and put it on the hall table , beside the front door . |
| 10 | Ruth shall unpack it and put it on you . |
| 11 | she fetched it and put it on table |
| 12 | He stood up and began to pace restlessly round the room , stopping occasionally by the door to squint out through the perspex porthole , by the table to lean across it and impale her on his eyes , or by the wall where he sent his hands into spirals of explanation . |
| 13 | We 'll probably take this on paper , so the reason it 's on the agenda is to tell you as a department that we 've had this sent to us , erm we 've got a meeting later this week to actually sit down and analyse it and to put something on paper to send up to command . |
| 14 | Barbie said she 'd rather have a cigarette anyway and gave them back to us , but we could n't break any of them off , so we kept passing this lump backwards and forwards , sucking it and grinding little chunks off it , till we got fed up with it and chucked it on the floor . |
| 15 | An outside cistern could be kept from freezing by hanging a light bulb near it and leaving it on all the time . |
| 16 | We have already stressed at the end of Chapter 6 how important it is to record your daily weight and also to chart it and plot it on a monthly graph . |
| 17 | She read about it and saw it on television . |
| 18 | When he had finished reading he carefully folded it and placed it on top of the blotter . |
| 19 | Then I met up with Alan and , and he read though it and challenged me on a few things and we changed one or two bits , but I 've got my sort of target set out . |
| 20 | The child studies it , memorises it and writes it on his paper from memory . |
| 21 | In 1991 the Norseman was purchased by the Township of Red Lake with the aim of restoring it and mounting it on ‘ the pole ’ . |
| 22 | She said I shall take it and pay it on Thursday . |
| 23 | After it was closed and put up for sale eighteen months ago they did their utmost to buy it and run it on a community basis . |
| 24 | Somebody would 've put a match to it and set it on fire , we would have got money for going to deal with it . |
| 25 | He withdrew it and threw it on the ground . |
| 26 | Cos I dismantled it and threw it on floor . |