Example sentences of "[adv] it [verb] on [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I wish to be at home with you indeed , indeed-my Joy is only in the bud here I am like that Tree , which fronts me — The Sun shines bright & warm , as if it were summer — but it is not summer & so it shines on leafless boughs . |
| 2 | Clearly it fell on deaf ears . |
| 3 | First , all the evidence that is available shows that the expansion of the social services did not so much rely on the workers made redundant from the industrial sector but rather it drew on new sources of labour — mainly women . |
| 4 | Maybe it works on other cats , but I would n't attempt it without asbestos gloves . |
| 5 | Then it started on Cumbrian limestone , blossomed to Lakeland quarries and so , finally , to Raven Crag . |
| 6 | ‘ There is when it tramples on other people 's lives ! ’ |
| 7 | Salad burnet is a European plant , native to Britain where it grows on chalky soil amongst grass , such as the downlands of the south . |
| 8 | Spokeswoman Wanda Anderson said : ‘ There is a danger that because the hospice runs so efficiently people may forget how heavily it relies on public donations and fund-raising . |