Example sentences of "on it [conj] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Do n't spend to much time on it unless it seems to have more relevanace to the case . |
| 2 | That horn does n't look too good though , he thought , scratching his head and glaring at the disinterested horse , which had stepped back on it while it was lying with the rest of the dismantled bits on the floor of the shed . |
| 3 | What sets this theme apart is the way Britten harps on it once it has emerged and uses it , in a number of variants , to build up the pressure on Grimes until he starts to break under the strain . |
| 4 | He bent and twisted himself before it , jerking suddenly this way and that , as if he were lying in wait for disease , determined to pounce on it before it could strike . |
| 5 | It was common talk and all the young men wanted to be in on it before it was all over . |
| 6 | I knocked on it but it was so dilapidated that I could see right through the door frame and into a large room where a man was sitting in a kitchen chair , dressed in trousers and vest . |
| 7 | You may choke on it but it screams ‘ success ’ to the multinationals . |
| 8 | South east also doing well and in the south east , looking at the it seems to be the case , one ca n't put too strong an el too strong erm a sort of weight on it but it seems to be the case that in the south east it 's the food , drink and tobacco sector and chemicals which are tending to , to lead the way there erm Scotland also strong export demand . |
| 9 | Track one is a growling , clapping disco song with a peace message , but far better to my ears are ‘ Klangers ’ , a similar groove which sounds like it has in fact got The Klangers on it although it 's probably just a synth , and ‘ The Horns Of Jerricurl ’ ( geddit ? ) which unfolds the depths of their groove and lays bare their sense of humour . |
| 10 | They may suck on it until it dissolves sufficiently to swallow rather than chew it and so meal-times take a very long time . |
| 11 | you you buy er salt it away in barrels in boxes and and work on it until it was through . |
| 12 | Did people expect it to be liquified and work on it until it happened , or was it just an accidental discovery ? |
| 13 | Walk along this and stay on it till it disappears at the top ridge . |
| 14 | I was at a day school in Hampstead , King Alfred School , in its heyday , and we went out to Golders Green and boarded the open top of a No. 13 bus and sat on it till it came back to Golders Green again — such sights we saw ! |
| 15 | At Force Mills , follow the road leading up to Satterthwaite , keep on it as it crosses over Grizedale Beck . |
| 16 | The second meaning attached to the word ‘ love ’ is the one conferred on it when it is applied to the manifestation of the primitive uncontrolled mating urge as it applies to human beings , and also sometimes to animals . |
| 17 | It lacked the bypass of Hebon under Pertunda , and Triglaf certainly had the edge on it when it came to a southerly location . |
| 18 | One or two more besides me alive today that was on it , but we was n't on it when it bursted up . |
| 19 | The wh the whole point is Steve , when it comes down to basic facts , it should have had a proper sealed unit chiller on it when it was new . |
| 20 | Yeah you know you can buy stuff to put on it when it 's dried up . |
| 21 | Yeah well we did n't concentrate on it when it started actually , we was all talking were n't we ? |
| 22 | The innovation of the laser-guided bomb is that you can aim at anything : just point the laser at it , and the bomb will fall on it if it can . |
| 23 | Although Uaru are not noted for equipment bashing , they have been known to move it gently aside , or even to spawn on it if it happens to be in their chosen spot . |
| 24 | Well I reckon it 's gon na take us three and a half hours to get to the other end , so two and a half hours to it and an hour on it if it 's not too bad and then of course we 've got to go up from there to Ipswich , Woodbridge but it 's dual carriageway all the way now you see . |
| 25 | And it 's something to do with that and an embargo date 's a little bit like that , and in a sense , you may well be able to stop people actually publishing the thing , but they will still know and be working on it if it 's of any importance , so use embargo dates advisedly . |
| 26 | They did n't have a lot of time on it and it was effectively an engineer/producer , rather than a producer . |
| 27 | Where an instrument is laid subject to affirmative resolution procedure , the Government sponsoring it must find time in the Houses for a vote on it and it must secure an affirmative vote . |
| 28 | ‘ They asked to be on it and it 's not going to do us any harm to have Slash and Ozzy on the new album , is it ? |
| 29 | A formal concept since 1923 , millions of American dollars have been spent on it and it has been virtually complete for years . |
| 30 | You 've got an S O four with two bonds on it and it 's holding on to a hydrogen |