Example sentences of "[subord] it [vb past] on [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he had been very kind to her the past few weeks , and she knew he was right , that the showing would be a fiasco if it went on this way . |
| 2 | She switched to London Weekend because it went on all night and watched another film , then a comedy about a Los Angeles police precinct . |
| 3 | The stone flew in the air across the surface of the water , skimming as free as a bird but only because it bounced on that surface every now and then and refused to sink at the first contact . |
| 4 | Eventually Duncan had managed to slew the aircraft round before it settled on all wheels on the runway . |
| 5 | A further echo of the Koln Ju88 strike reverberated the following evening when most of the crew were out in Cambridge celebrating survival and , as it happened on these occasions , most crews had their own favourite watering places . |