Example sentences of "on [pos pn] [noun sg] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I consider this a monstrous libel and gross slur on my reputation and it has caused grave distress and embarrassment to me and is of course highly defamatory . |
| 2 | They took another twenty people to hospital and I had the dairy roof down on my back and it took them two hours to dig me out . |
| 3 | There were no bandages large enough in the wheelbarrow to make a cold compress , so I poured water on my sock where it touched the inflammation , but the water filled my boot and left the sock barely damp . |
| 4 | when , in the hairdresser they put it on my hair and it went in my eye . |
| 5 | There was a hangnail at the side of my thumb and now I took it between my teeth and tore it off so that the blood ran , leaving a scarlet spotting on my dress where it bloused out above my waist . |
| 6 | N.B. Kwik-fit Child Safety Centres will supply and fit a child seat for £28.50 and give a full refund on its return when it has been outgrown . |
| 7 | It also faces increased interest costs on its debt unless it improves its balance sheet in time to stave off a threatened downgrading of its debt by the Moody 's credit rating agency . |
| 8 | In September 1915 , the UDC refused to accept their affiliation on the grounds that the UDC had less to gain from any activity the Fellowship might undertake on its behalf than it had to lose from being associated with the doctrine of non-resistance . |
| 9 | She had left the note in an addressed envelope on her desk and it had vanished . |
| 10 | There was a sharp tap on her door and it swung in , shutting quickly behind him . |
| 11 | He raised his hand and placed it on her arm where it had briefly touched before . |
| 12 | Oh right , oh what cauliflower of course , yes can mummy just try and clip this on her cardigan cos it keeps coming off ? |
| 13 | She ranged it beside a dozen other pots and jars and bottles on her dressing-table and it looked well . |
| 14 | IMP had paid her generously , and she 'd hoarded the little money she 'd made on her flat once it had been sold , but it still had n't been enough to buy her somewhere to live . |
| 15 | That money is pure commission , Nick , a mere ten per cent of the value of the cocaine that was stored on their island while it awaited transportation to the good old US of A ; and neither you , nor I , nor even the dickheads in the Drug Enforcement Administration will ever know just how much money was not put in the bank , but stored in paper bags under the bed . ’ |
| 16 | Companies do not pay tax on their FII since it represents dividends paid out of profits that have already been taxed in the corporate sector ( s 208 ) . |
| 17 | I have said consistently we do n't want to be the first in the industry , I would rather await either N A C O T , N A C O M or the U D M seeing what they , the outcome is there as we have traditionally done and then take it from there where you must agree that we have usually improved on their offer when it 's been made . |
| 18 | We were waiting on his giro and it did n't come.2 |
| 19 | and I said then on the , on the Saturday his leg , his wound , he come out of intensive care on the Wednesday and on the Saturday his , his dressing had n't been changed on his leg and it reeked and I said can we actually please have a clean dressing for my dad 's leg , even if I 've got to put the bugger on myself , that was at quarter past eight |
| 20 | Roberton has taken what can best be described as an artistic look at this subject and I must compliment him on his approach because it provides a valuable visual record of what can never be again . |
| 21 | She could feel his hard member pushing into her spine , the sweat on his face as it rubbed against her neck , and her own need was all consuming . |
| 22 | Another landed on his cheek where it sizzled and went out . |
| 23 | I 'm not saying it had such a positive effect on his career but it caused a lot of attention which he did n't buckle under , and I do feel a lot of people could n't have lived through that experience , but he did . |
| 24 | I hate to think what effect it would have on our deficit if it included realistic costings of the value of their time . |
| 25 | We believe that there are on a number of priorities er and this one does not seem quite as high er on our list as it does er on the labour . |
| 26 | We waited on our plane while it refuelled . |
| 27 | I 'll just pop into the kitchen and get a cloth , so you can mop up that splash on your shirt before it stains . ’ |
| 28 | It usually works , but I ca n't guarantee it will work on your machine because it depends on how your PC is set up . |
| 29 | And this is where you , the , the building society offer you er the rate of erm er return on the stock market erm and er a bonus on your account if it does n't make the rate . |
| 30 | At their recent meeting Nether Wyresdale Parish Council asked me to write and thank you for allowing the seat from Snowhill to be kept on your property after it had been removed from its base . |