Example sentences of "[verb] it [is] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ How do you know it 's on now ? ’ she asked carefully , and Ana turned over comfortably , smiling to herself . |
| 2 | We will leave it to Goldberg to disengage the tone from the shit , he wrote , we will leave it to Honeyman and McGough , much good may it do them , though I will no doubt come back to the question before my project is completed , the big glass and the notes to the big glass , these two to be worked on at night , and this freewheeling commentary on both to be written by day , putting down whatever comes into my head after a night 's work , no correction , no revision , whatever comes into my head , the first two to be worked on by artificial light , the strategy clear , this by natural light wherever possible , no strategy at all , the first to be exhibited , the second to be published in the form of sheets in a box , a blue box or a red box , I have not yet made up my mind , in a limited edition , not a luxury edition but a restricted edition , five hundred boxes perhaps or even two hundred and fifty , all that will become clearer in the course of my work on the big glass , of my work on the notes to the big glass , now I have finally embarked on the major project of my life , the climactic project of my life , leading to the end of my life , all will grow clearer , wrote Harsnet , whether to try and call back and destroy all I have done till now or let it be , whether to burn this commentary or let it be , or perhaps leave it to Goldberg to do whatever he wants with , all these things will no doubt be resolved before the work is completed , that is the beauty of being in the middle of a project , that time itself , which had seemed such an enemy before I started , rushing forward and dragging me with it , impervious to my pleas , has suddenly turned friendly , flops down at my feet , licks my ankles , lets me know it is on my side . |
| 3 | No idea just see expect it 's on the notices or send a . |
| 4 | I do n't know where your plectrum is , I expect it 's on the floor somewhere waiting for my hoover to get it ! |
| 5 | ‘ I expect it is on its way , ’ said the Thing calmly . |
| 6 | say it 's on its way , it 's on its way ! |
| 7 | Yes it says it 's on stamp albums . |
| 8 | The company produced 29,224 ounces of gold at an average grade of between 2.5 and 2.8 grammes per tonne , and says it is on course to mine 70,000 ounces during the whole of 1989 . |
| 9 | Well that 's what it says it is on the erm on the outside . |
| 10 | I bloody well hope it 's on Monday night cos I 've just arranged my entire work schedule around it . |
| 11 | Well you 've got your own little car seat for your doll , look it 's on the cupboard , up here , that 's your special one , is n't it ? |
| 12 | Gwendoline , I think , look it 's on her leg . |
| 13 | Place to hear it is on the highway . |
| 14 | Yeah , well she reckoned it 's on it lovely actually . |
| 15 | I know it 's on the grapevine that there have been problems with the cars , but nothing 's ever been said officially . |
| 16 | So if he phones up I can say , you know it 's on its way as it were . |
| 17 | I know it 's on the eighth . |
| 18 | I suppose it 's on |
| 19 | It 's an old established set-up , but I reckon it 's on its last legs now . |
| 20 | If I had it on a solid floor , but it 's got ta go , do n't forget it 's on a a wooden floor . |
| 21 | Match of the day , action replay it 's on Scotsport . |
| 22 | I think , bet it 's on there now in a minute in n it ? |
| 23 | What I recommend you , you look at , I do n't think it 's on your reading list , no it 's not , it 's not on your reading list , but there are copies of it in the library . |
| 24 | Yeah I mean it is on a ferry anyway . |
| 25 | ‘ You mean it 's on its way and no one 's driving it ? ’ |
| 26 | but er see this is er , and this is Africa but , I mean it 's on all the time int |
| 27 | ‘ SCCS is great for working on individual files , but it has no concept of workstations or networks — it thinks it is on a single machine , ’ says SunPro technical specialist Hank Shiffman . |
| 28 | I think it 's on a par with EIS systems like Pilot ( see panel ) , and we will use it , in due course , to handle exception reporting and that sort of thing . |
| 29 | ‘ I think it 's on the thirtieth , is n't it ? |
| 30 | ‘ I 'm just about at the limit of my transmitting range and anyway I do n't know exactly where we are , although I think it 's on the A7 road to Carlisle . |