Example sentences of "[prep] it on [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Rather , he was to look after it on behalf of the grantor 's family . |
2 | I said I wish you 'd of timed it of it on top |
3 | I promise you one thing ; he 's brought none of it on board . |
4 | Survey after survey in the 1970s pointed both to growing public expenditure ( much of it on defence ) and yet also to a run-down public sector . |
5 | Standard cheap writing paper — there 's reams of it on sale , about four hundred outlets . |
6 | Do you make offerings in front of it on Midsummer 's Eve ? ’ asked Leonora , impressed . |
7 | I have seen huge clumps of it on roadside bands in Greece , the deeply divided , dark green leaves bristling with formidable spines , a most fearsome spectacle , and easily recreated in a warm , sunny , well-drained spot in the garden . |
8 | I have enjoyed playing this miniature ever since finding the reproduction of it on page 248 of Eric Walter White 's Stravinsky catalogue ( 2nd edition , London , 1979 ) , but it is delightful to hear it played by a pianist of Béroff 's stature . |
9 | nineteen eighty five and we can see the picture of it , or a drawing of it on page seventy , I have n't looked to see how many apartments there is |
10 | The days of being forced to get out of it on cough medicine are well behind Irish grunge superstars-in-the-making , THERAPY ? |
11 | Sixty one of these hundred women like foo football , sixty two would watch it if there was more of it on television . |
12 | Yeah , they 've had it excerpts of it on television have n't they ? |
13 | Nobody can know the world , not even the parts of it on offer to tourists , but they can know how to look them up , and the training for too long has been exiguous . |
14 | Secondly , ‘ If such a species ( extraterrestrial ) existed , there would be evidence of it on Earth or in the Solar System . ’ |
15 | But some of the CBS people pointed out there is nothing like it on TV in America . |
16 | At the Party Conference of 1920 , which coalitionists had hoped would approve fusion , it was estimated that about five-eighths of the delegates were in favour of the existence of the coalition , and the rest against it on principle , but that hardly any of them approved its current policies . |
17 | Sequoia Systems Inc has reported a first quarter net loss of $3.0m after a charge of $3.3m for the preliminary settlement of the class action suit against it on turnover that slumped 37.9% at $9.6m . |
18 | I shall certainly have nothing to do with it on principle . |
19 | One is that , as capital increases in productivity across a wide range of jobs , labour can not compete with it on cost grounds . |
20 | CHOOSE the wine and make sure someone has the job of dealing with it on Christmas Day . |
21 | In 1872 he introduced at Victoria on the Metropolitan District Railway an automatic train-protection system whereby a red lens positioned in front of a white signal light was raised above it on actuation from an electrical contact only when the section ahead was clear . |
22 | Your affairs are ours , and if I do n't believe in it on principle , or because I am not mature enough for publication , neither do I despise ‘ vile money ’ . |
23 | For years souvenir-hunters had swarmed over it on summer Sundays ( and now also on Lubbock 's bank holidays ) , their hammers at the ready , and the owner , Antrobus , had Supplied an attendant to keep some order . |
24 | I 've got one on page eighty-one , but we 'll come to it on pollution control . |
25 | The call that particularly mystifies me , when I am subjected to it on journey after journey , is the admonition from catering staff to intending consumers of their junk food to be sure to bring their small change with them . |
26 | nineteen thousand three hundred people have objected to it on petition . |
27 | It 's very very funny because I actually laughed about it when I listened to it on tape first of all and I felt well maybe |
28 | ‘ Nobody buys tickets for Box 5 , but the ghost always comes to it on opera nights . ’ |
29 | Both also joined the League of Nations Union , lecturing widely for it on world peace ; and in 1922 they toured Europe to investigate postwar conditions . |
30 | Dad had said he 'd pay for it on Access . |