Example sentences of "on it for " in BNC.

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1 But it was the Greek islands on which his attention was finally fastened , notably Hydra ( Ydra ) in the Saronic Gulf , which had had an artistic community on it for some years .
2 Both the New Criticism and Scrutiny were products of the modernist literary revolution , and drew on it for their methods and their assumptions .
3 Around 1920 when Eliot , with anthropological ideas in the forefront of his mind , had attacked Gilbert Murray 's translations of Euripides , Pound tried to persuade him to translate Aeschylus ' Agamemnon , but Eliot ‘ sat on it for eight months or some longer period ’ .
4 Why does n't it have a mark on it for absolute brass monkeys ?
5 Mrs Burke leaves a remarkable house which deserves to be looked after with the same care that she has lavished on it for almost 20 years .
6 However , most of his tours are accompanied by freelance lecturers , though never those who rely on it for their livelihood , who , he thinks , get stale .
7 Like the grave-diggers in Hamlet , they speculated on life : ‘ We 've been working on it for 25 years and we still have n't got round .
8 MGM is already in default on $600m of loans from Credit Lyonnais and is totally dependent on it for capital to finance its day-to-day operations .
9 ( 1 ) Official figures indicate that one in five of southern Italians and a quarter of Greeks and Portuguese work in agriculture , although the numbers significantly dependent on it for their livelihood must be considerably higher .
10 Bridhe , put a black fringe on it for me . ’
11 Panyi island , where Sapan and Strawberry lived , had only enough room on it for the mosque .
12 But why anyone would want to carry a bike up a mountain on their shoulder for the pleasure of being able to bump about on it for tiny , short stretches of flat ridge was completely beyond me .
13 He made a pun on it for the title of his revue Cranks .
14 Yet , while such cuts are seen as preferable to the personal hardships of redundancy , less obvious cuts in the information system would also have personal repercussions — advice workers are entirely dependent on it for serving clients and would be unable to function as efficiently without it .
15 He had been working on it for more than ten years .
16 After a month of storage in a tank or lagoon , the slurry should be safe enough for spreading — although cattle should not graze on it for a month .
17 The discovery of more stable chemicals ( Table 3 ) — the true residual insecticides — which were sprayed on to the walls and roofs of dwellings and left a deposit that was lethal to mosquitoes resting on it for many weeks and even months , produced the ideal control that did not demand an impossibly high efficiency .
18 As this is n't actually a direct film licence I wo n't dwell on it for too long ; just long enough to warn you that it 's a particularly poor platform product , with the only good feature being that the Amiga version was a lot worse .
19 Jean pondered on it for a day while we held our breath .
20 Gandhi indeed could count on the British conscience for his personal safety , but he could never count on it for political concessions — and it is clear that at some level he understood this .
21 Keep it in the quarantine tank , cease medication and keep an eye on it for the next few months .
22 John Gummer 's attack on it for promoting ‘ heresy ’ by broadcasting discussion about the truth , or otherwise , of the resurrection is given full coverage .
23 However , there is nothing in Law which prevents a player dropping the ball and then falling on it for a score .
24 Traditionally a signet ring , with a family crest engraved on it for marking wax seals , was the only jewellery worn by a man .
25 Later , when the Northern Ireland Office was established , it relied heavily on it for the information on which it based security and political activities .
26 Black-leaved ilexes grew in the churchyard and a brassy laburnum had flowers on it for one week out of the year .
27 ‘ I 've had my eye on it for a while , but as an accountant I like to think I 'm getting a bargain , ’ says Mark .
28 There has n't been anyone on it for thousands of years ! ’
29 A comfortable chair for nanny stands by the brass-bound fender that surrounds the hob grate , with the nursery kettle on it for making the baby 's feeds .
30 I 've got three people working on it right now and they 've been working on it for three years .
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