Example sentences of "on it [vb mod] " in BNC.

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1 and this , this guy came for it and , obviously Lynn ca n't say , we do n't want to take a ma man on it 'll be sex discrimination .
2 and she 's doing you a spaghetti bolognaise , so I said oh that 'll be nice , when we got there , shall we go in the bank for an hour , I did n't feel like going out , he said come on it 'll do you good ,
3 If I 've got my drinking head on it 'll be the first three pints in about fifteen minutes if that .
4 mm er yeah they should be done by Friday I should think cos if all they 're doing is putting a coping edge on it 'll make it look nicer at the back .
5 telly on it 'll pick the telly up .
6 Well it wo n't be on it 'll be in .
7 Irene Daniels , who 's the programme 's researcher says ‘ if you have a clip that makes you and your family laugh , then it 's odds on it 'll make other people laugh too ’ .
8 If I 'd told you about the entry earlier on it might have lulled you into a false sense of complacency .
9 One matter rose over erm in discussion over lunch which if we could get a clarification on it might help the remainder of the day .
10 Yeah saves a bit of writing and er and you 'll always get a bit more detail on it ca n't you ?
11 Two years previously it would have been just another biker film , and two years on it would have been dated in terms of attitudes .
12 As the magma approached the surface , the pressure on it would decrease , and the gas in it would expand ; as the gas expanded it would take up more room , and this in turn would force the whole mass to rise faster and higher up the vent .
13 As the tyre rolled , each point on it would enter the contact zone .
14 You can hear that one on Planet Cannonball and it had the most incredible effect ; the voltage on it would sag so much when you cranked it up that it sounded like a volume swell pedal .
15 Yet paradoxically , this very scope itself demanded rapid resolution of such stresses , particularly since as time went on it would become more apparent that a much greater momentum and will than that supplied by the Treaty of Rome would be required to push the Six firmly into economic union and political unity .
16 A school report on it would read ‘ Good try — could do better ’ .
17 And on it would go , the dissections , the speculations , the dismantling of Jacob 's work .
18 But alack , it does no bleat and bleat as if the little heart on it would burst .
19 And the only vehicles on it would be those native ox carts .
20 This thinking has apparently not been overly concerned with the argument that from that point on it would be not so much what went on in Britain as what happened in Germany which would count most ( a phenomenon clearly illustrated by the chart in Appendix 2 ) .
21 President Lansana Conte ( who on April 4 , 1990 , was given the rank of major-general by the CMRN ) said in his 1990 New Year address that the draft constitution being drawn up by a 50-member committee chaired by Foreign Minister Maj. Jean Traore would be submitted to the nation for discussion and amendment during 1990 ; a referendum on it would be held by the end of the year [ see also p. 37060 ] .
22 ‘ By the time I got my boots on it would all be over , ’ he told Margery .
23 If we if Father Christmas only saw one with dancing on it would that be better ?
24 and I was er , I try and switch the machine on it would n't come on , I thought what 's going on here , so I said to Sue , ca n't switch the machine on Sue what 's going on here ? , anyway , apparently the power supply to the machine was a bit dicky , the
25 Teachers should be aware , particularly of that aspect , I think , because phonic method is very often used in schools , by which I mean that the teacher wil hold up a flash card , and on it would be a pair of letters , say , suppose for example sh the teacher will hold up a large card with sh on it and will say to the class ‘ this is shuss ’ and the children will all say shuss whenever this card is held up — that 's fine , but the dyslexic pupil may not be seeing sh in the same way that the other children are .
26 Indeed , you have probably broken previous weight-loss diets because of social pressures , such as eating in a restaurant , or eating in a friend 's house , where their encouragement , " go on it wo n't hurt " , and your response , " just this once , " are the first fatal steps to weight gain .
27 Appendix 1 is the most endangered list , and animals on it may not be traded for commercial purposes .
28 If hay has been rained on it may be completely useless .
29 But their dependence on it may cut people off from even considering other buying methods .
30 It is not directed , and the weight on it may be denoted as either wij or wji .
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