Example sentences of "on it [conj] [pron] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was putting a bold face on it but I suspect he 's taking the parting quite badly — at least he had the grace to phone your sister 's home last night to confirm that she 'd arrived safely . ’ |
| 2 | that ma , I said to Geoff , to me , you know , we 'd like to get a solicitor on it but you see we |
| 3 | Well you do n't know you 're on it until you hit it and then you just lose your steering and your wheels just go all over the place |
| 4 | I have faith in your erm in your business instinct Richard , but not , but not enough to put money on it till I see them |
| 5 | Her hands rested on it as she surveyed me with calm enquiry . |
| 6 | Then he hurled himself against the rigid flap of wall , pushing it , bending it back into the hole , stamping on it as he forced his way into the darkness beyond . |
| 7 | and we had er , I mean we had a bright orange swivel chair and when that came out it was called the Orbit or something , something really weird and it had a big back on it and we thought it was great I mean , I think it 's awful now , some of the things we had , I 'll have to try and find some photographs cos I 've got a case full of photographs upstairs |
| 8 | Well she had this cup for him , there was no handle on it and she knew it was the dog 's so |
| 9 | Oh one of the hens got erm landed on the top of the black net cos I I 'd put some corn and stuff in you see and she landed on it and she got her feet stuck through netting so she was flapping and the net was just going up and down ! |
| 10 | Me and your mam did one this morning , I had about twenty minutes left on it and she helped me finish it off |
| 11 | Usually there 's a name plate there that says Coral Coopland , on it and you took it down . |
| 12 | But I mean it was it that we were taken to first , and I mean thee was a lot of people on it and I mean it had obviously saved a lot of lives . |
| 13 | But even so , I mean I took a , like a two or three year old on it and I mean it is it 's a nightmare ! |
| 14 | I glance into my glass and hand her back the J ; her eyes close as she draws on it and I put my lips to my glass , slipping that sucked-on sliver of ice into my own mouth and rolling it around there , pretending it 's her tongue . |
| 15 | I told my dad that was I chucked his in the bin and it had sort of stains on it and I told him that was |
| 16 | Instead , I pick up the clock on it and I see it is half-past six . |
| 17 | He concentrated on it because he loved it , and he thereby proved once more his extreme simplicity of character . |
| 18 | but , then again with Eileen you never know with Eileen she says well it 's , it depends on our Sandra she said I 'm not building up on it cos you know what she is , but she says if you know she might want Alan to come and then she goes on and , and then , then she says I do n't know what we shall do really if we do come , she says cos if Eileen wo n't , she 's work , really ca n't come if Alan comes |
| 19 | No we , we all take a turn on it where you do it . |