Example sentences of "it [vb past] on [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They could n't catch this stallion : it was in a loose box and it got on top of the chap who 'd been leading it . |
| 2 | Following the meeting a US military excavation team carried out its first MIA search in Cambodia ; it announced on March 23 that it had recently unearthed some remains which were believed to be of members of US television crews killed in Cambodia in 1970 . |
| 3 | It announced on July 15 that an attempted coup had been foiled the previous night . |
| 4 | In addition to Newbury it centred on Reading and Abingdon , about which information is scanty , and had flourished at Wantage during the fifteenth century . |
| 5 | That used to be a completely different tune ; I had the lyrics , but I played it on an open tuned National , then when I got the Strat and plugged it into an old Fender Vibrolux amp , it became what it became on record . |
| 6 | The judge , asked to decide as a preliminary point when the cause of action accrued for the purposes of section 9(1) of the Limitation Act 1980 held that it arose on completion of the works required by the notices . |
| 7 | ‘ It keeps it stopped on hills and things ! |
| 8 | ‘ Why did you come back ? ’ went on Eleanor , her green gaze bright with dislike as it fixed on Jessamy . |
| 9 | Fourteen people aboard a chartered Ilyushin-14 airliner operated by a Chinese tourist company died after it crashed on Oct. 8 in the north-western province of Gansu . |
| 10 | It is thought he lifted the cab after a mechanical fault and it crashed on top of him . |
| 11 | as it dripped on parquet marked with muddy tracks — two mackintoshes in distress |
| 12 | The afternoon sun on my back was gently warming and the light that it cast on Chola 's and Mina 's faces was as clear and richly brown as amber . |
| 13 | By Charles IV 's reign regalism proceeded to an attack on church property , and with Urquijo , most radical of the regalists , it bordered on schism . |
| 14 | It fastened on Mala like a grasping hand and snatched her into the air . |
| 15 | The programme represented a departure from previous campaigns in that it concentrated on building belief in the ability to make decisions for oneself , and it used social cognitive theory techniques to ‘ inoculate ’ children against chronic self-doubt or learned helplessness . |
| 16 | Although the company has been going since around 1980 , for a long while it concentrated on research and development projects for other companies : this approach stems from its roots as an offshoot of the University of Colorado . |
| 17 | Two or three seasons ago it concentrated on excerpts ( including at least two showings a season of the dreaded encounter between Hawick v Gala ) . |
| 18 | Like the Better Health Commission , it concentrated on targets for preventable mortality and behavioural risk factors . |
| 19 | It adopted on April 8 a resolution on establishing a Moscow municipal militia . |
| 20 | Remember when that tree fell down and it banged on Shelley 's window and Shelley was giving it ah ! |
| 21 | In contrast , however , the Cleveland Report is particularly sensitive to such issues in relation to sexual abuse and spends considerable time trying to weigh the often conflicting evidence it received on identification and assessment , particularly in terms of the reflex anal dilatation test . |
| 22 | ‘ I had got to the front door when it exploded on top of me . |
| 23 | Some of it was concerned with making policy in conjunction with the King , whom it advised on matters of state . |
| 24 | The driver of a heavy goods vehicle suffered a cut ear after it overturned on land behind the premises of Stranton Waste and Salvage in Thomlinson Road , Hartlepool . |
| 25 | Blanche nodded with such studied attention it verged on caricature . |
| 26 | It came on July 9th . |
| 27 | The catch was usually gutted as soon as it came on board , and the gulls would go in a flock from boat to boat , cleaning up the discards . |
| 28 | The event , when it came on February 19th , was worth the wait . |
| 29 | It came on stream in November 1992 . |
| 30 | It came on St Valentines Day , 14 February 1979 . |