Example sentences of "it [verb] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the first four months of this year it agreed on 18 draft laws ; in the same period last year , it produced 37 . |
| 2 | On 18 June 1486 it agreed on ‘ a peace to be concluded with the King of Scots … so that a diet [ conference ] be taken upon treaty to be made of marriage … . ’ |
| 3 | The Police Federation has attacked the initiative , calling it crimefighting on the cheap . |
| 4 | It plays on our pride in our own free will . |
| 5 | It plays on your mind . |
| 6 | IT launches on Hallowe'en and encompasses Guy Fawkes night . |
| 7 | Towards the end of the eighteenth century Anglican evangelicalism reinforced the attack , but it operated on the poor ; Methodism did that and worked in the hearts and minds of the poor . |
| 8 | What the hell did I get it for — to have it sit on the fucking shelf ? |
| 9 | ‘ And I want it to go on the same way till I 'm free to offer you more . ’ |
| 10 | Finally , the company donated part of a site which it owned on the shores of Loughrea Lake , to the town of Loughrea … |
| 11 | Ordinary people who have been awarded ‘ less important ’ decorations like the British Empire Medal may well find it pinned on their chest not by the Queen but a lord lieutenant in the form of a retired colonel or minor baronet . |
| 12 | A short bout of exercise has a further role , namely of waking you up in the morning as it turns on the alerting mechanisms of the body . |
| 13 | The moment it turns on its back the silvery belly is obvious . |
| 14 | It turns on the general relation between the justification for a binding directive and its status as a reason for action , and more generally on the relation between rules as reasons for action and their justification . |
| 15 | Advantages : The grill is well positioned in one corner of the roof of the oven and browns food evenly as it turns on the turntable — excellent for cooking dishes such as lasagne and cauliflower cheese . |
| 16 | And what happens is that if an embryo has the single gene for being male , it happens to have a white chromosome not surprisingly , it turns on thousands of other genes that then make the embryo into a male , but , but that single gene has to be there to act as a switch and that 's that gene is also present in alligators and crocodiles so the point I 'm making is it is just wrong to say that , that all these discoveries about genetics cut no ice with human evolution , because human things can not be influenced by single genes . |
| 17 | There appears to be a tendency to go from oral-only to speech with speech-supportive means such as fingerspelling or cued speech ; from those there is a movement in the direction of these of sign to better disambiguate the spoken word ; next comes a signed version of the spoke , language either with speech or without it depending on the circumstances ; and finally . |
| 18 | That 's west unless we 're off course , in which case it 's night ; the King gave me the same as you , the King gave you the same as me : the King never gave me the letter , the King gave you the letter , we do n't know what 's in the letter ; we take Hamlet to the English King , it depending on when we get there who he is , and we hand over the letter , which may or may not have something in it to keep us going , and if not , we are finished and at a loose end , if they have loose ends . |
| 19 | it depend , it depending on your circumstances , yeah . |
| 20 | Nevertheless it is pernicious because it trades on the pernicious habit of labelling things or qualities ( hard/soft , consonant/vowel ) masculine or feminine ( a habit we must return to in Chapter 5 ) . |
| 21 | However , it trades on special terms , which this chapter has attempted to describe . |
| 22 | IT WAS once an independent state , all 32 square miles of it ; but it got on the wrong side of the local superpower , whereupon angry Athens exiled its inhabitants for daring to ally themselves with Sparta . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | ‘ He was n't too bad , but he kept copying the way I said ‘ country ’ in a very meaningful fashion and it got on my nerves . |
| 25 | ‘ All those foreign voices , it got on my nerves . ’ |
| 26 | it got on my wick the bitchiness of it all , did n't you , I could n't , I could n't do with it Joy I do n't think |
| 27 | Well it was long and it was straggly and it got on my nerves ! |
| 28 | The great depth of the body , lacking the rotundity found in other species , would make the bream a very ungainly fish without these exceptionally long fins on the back and belly to balance , stabilise and allow it to swim on an even keel . |
| 29 | Unix System Laboratories has a new marketing programme it 's calling Flood Gates that will see it knock on end-user doors on behalf of Destiny with OEMs in tow . |
| 30 | If a society 's year ended in , say , September , it passed on the tax the following January . |