Example sentences of "on the [noun sg] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He squinted at a car on the road as it hurried north . |
| 2 | Frequently a horse that habitually rears when it is mounted is also likely to rear every time it feels anxious , such as when it is passed by a truck on the road or it sees a monster ; but it is especially likely to rear when it is asked to stand still . |
| 3 | A song thrush opted for a life on the road when it set up home on a pick-up truck at Harwell , see below . |
| 4 | To square this with interference phenomena it is necessary to suppose the existence of a strange force acting on the electron as it traverses , say , the top slit , whose nature depends on whether the bottom slit is at that instant open or shut . |
| 5 | That argument has to rest on the principle that it makes other owners of Utterly Dependables feel better if everyone has one ! |
| 6 | Oh yes you are , he thought , tightening the tie on the robe as it threatened to slide undone . |
| 7 | A spokesperson from Essex County Council said the council was looking into planting trees on the verge but it considered they were likely to be less effective there . |
| 8 | It had been David 's most miserable year on the field and it had a devastating effect on his private life . ’ |
| 9 | With the Tories certain to vote against such higher taxes , Labour would be defeated on the issue unless it gained power with an overall majority . |
| 10 | There has been discussion with the Commission on the issue and it seems to adopt a similar approach . |
| 11 | Life , of course , is far from ideal and it is more than likely that the training will take place in-house on the system once it has been installed . |
| 12 | It is important that we have this opportunity to concentrate on the Bill as it affects Scotland . |
| 13 | And on the instant that it happened , Uranus — the electrical disruptor — crossed the same point in the sky . |
| 14 | If the sauce requires thickening , boil it quickly in the casserole or a saucepan on the hot-plate until it has reduced sufficiently — it should be thick but moist . |
| 15 | The firm can rely on the intermediary if it has no reasonable grounds to doubt what he says . |
| 16 | I was informed that British Steel would be making a decision on the day that it made the decision — I was informed in confidence some days before that it would be making a decision on that day . |
| 17 | Modigliani 's one-man show , scheduled to last throughout the month of December , closed on the day that it opened . |
| 18 | Soldiers are also very much on the ball when it comes to ‘ night vision ’ . |
| 19 | It can not justify increased expenditure on the scale that it proposes , and we are not prepared to renegotiate in any way the present rebate to the United Kingdom . |
| 20 | There is no record of any laboratory tests on the substance though it has often been photographed . |
| 21 | As the law presently stands , it is open for a settlor to transfer assets overseas upon an accumulation trust for the benefit of his children without there being any UK tax liability on the income as it arises overseas . |
| 22 | Moyola looked the more likely to get the winning score on the resumption and it came when Ruddock , who was unlucky earlier with a header which struck the Tobermore upright , sent in from the wing in the 79th minute and their big outside left Calderwood was on hand to head to the net . |
| 23 | By the time he had got clear of the dog fight the Albatros was a couple of hundred yards away , closing on the two-seater as it chugged westwards against the implacable wind . |
| 24 | The contractor defaults , the employer claims on the bond and it transpires that the insurance company entered into the bond on the faith of misrepresentations made , without the employer 's knowledge , by the contractor . |
| 25 | You can feel the heat of the sun beating down on the water as it rocks you . |
| 26 | The sun spangled on the water as it went down into a red wrack of clouds . |
| 27 | The character of a scent develops slowly on the skin as it notes come into play . |
| 28 | The VPC may make an announcement on the proposal when it meets next Thursday . |
| 29 | And after failing to find it once again it came into the porch and complained loudly and so I went outside and with a paint brush I marked the entrance to the hive with three blobs of paint of a different colour and then with a piece of cardboard I guided the tiny winged creature towards the marks on the wall and it went inside . |
| 30 | In that you could see what was happening on the floor but it did n't show continuity of work which easily |