Example sentences of "it [be] [verb] on [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Who could it be calling on him at this time of night ? |
| 2 | ‘ It 's getting on me nerves , whimpering like that . |
| 3 | He 's … he 's so possessive of her , always has been , but it 's got worse of late , and … and of course it 's getting on her nerves . ’ |
| 4 | It 's getting on my nerves . ’ |
| 5 | This however is not oak it 's sit on it somebody . |
| 6 | If the wind had been stronger or the tide just a touch faster it 's broken on it we 'd be this minute ! |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . |
| 8 | I like to know what their intentions are , what they are hoping to achieve in that lesson and that cumulatively becomes more specific because it 's based on what we said last time . |
| 9 | It 's based on my experience of presenting thousands of them in close to a hundred countries around the world , under a wide variety of conditions . |
| 10 | ‘ Oh no , it serves the marriage well if it 's built on something . |
| 11 | you 're talking as much a about y it 's reflecting on you as the line manager , how much are you communicating with this |
| 12 | It 's written on my heart . ’ |
| 13 | I mean but see the tremendous strain that it 's putting on me ? |
| 14 | It 's engraved on our souls and hearts . |
| 15 | You can only you can only s you can only see light A if you A if there 's something if if you 've got an organ to see it with and B if it 's shining on something . |
| 16 | Just to make sure that erm just to make sure that we do n't think it 's just spinning wherever it feels like spinning , it 's spinning on its axis is n't it . |
| 17 | It even allowed them to forge a media-induced ‘ rivalry ’ with the abysmal , donkey-dancing Take That ! , which brings us back to pop muzak and why it 's dying on its arse . |
| 18 | Can we turn that light off cos it 's glaring on my book . |
| 19 | But it 's preyed on my mind . |
| 20 | Toby Reader , 18 , trainee engineer ( above ) with Anita Lawson , 18 , student : ‘ At first I did n't like this , ’ said Toby , ‘ but it 's growing on me . ’ |
| 21 | IT 'S growing on me , I confess . |
| 22 | Whether it 's going on what 's available or |
| 23 | It 's going on it |
| 24 | It 's going on me chair . |
| 25 | And like , in the di in the disabled bathroom the , the er , it 's not on a proper pedestal , so it 's sitting on it |
| 26 | Lesley 's more of the heart , if it 's set on something she 'll do it . |
| 27 | Denice has already decided she wants chicken , but is n't sure exactly what she wants done to it before it 's put on her plate . |
| 28 | That one , that 's the big toe , is where the foot actually is twisted outwards this one is where the foot is curved under , and that I 've put in red because it 's the most common sort , very common , that is where the foot is forced up and that one is where it looks as though it 's standing on its toes . |
| 29 | What period it is depends on its ‘ accounting reference period ’ as determined in accordance with section 223 , which in turn depends on its ‘ accounting reference date ’ as determined in accordance with sections 224 and 225 . |
| 30 | Here , in the gymnasia and exercise studios , they are now worrying not so much about the effects of heavy-duty exercise on their bodily contours , but with the havoc it is wreaking on their faces . |