Example sentences of "[prep] it [verb] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 60-year-old former catering company director left more than Pounds 200,000 worth of debt , all of it spent on the other woman . |
| 2 | Looking back to the time when she could n't find reverse on her company car , Alison contrasted this with her new job responsibilities : ‘ Now I 'm driving over 2,500 miles a month , much of it spent on the M25 . |
| 3 | The District Councils have no money , the Government is not interested in cycling as a mode of transport , the Region does have a limited budget but most of it goes on the cycling team . |
| 4 | So it varies from nothing to a lot of involvement , and much of it depends on the song . |
| 5 | The site is not in public ownership and any use of it depends on the agreement of the landowner , Mr Whewell . |
| 6 | This is limited because the light from the l.e.d. spreads out and only a fraction of it falls on the detector . |
| 7 | Same of the paint went on the window frame ; a lot of it went on the glass ; and most of it went on the floor . |
| 8 | Same of the paint went on the window frame ; a lot of it went on the glass ; and most of it went on the floor . |
| 9 | In 1884 when the primary survey of England was nearing completion , much of it mapped on the one-inch scale , he transferred G. Barrow , C. T. Clough , J. R. Dakyns , W. Gunn and H. Miller from northern England to the Scottish staff . |
| 10 | Bensons now have a large factory complex , much of it built on the site of the former canal basin of the Thames and Severn Canal Company . |
| 11 | Then he was crossing the road and the long ochre-coloured palace came into view with the snowflakes falling slowly in front of it to land on the roofs of the cars parked on the sloping car park in front . |
| 12 | She needs to be strapped in so that dad can keep control of her , so what we have found out is a bike made in Germany which is a wheelchair with the bicycle part of it clipped on the back , and once you get where you 're going , it dismantles and you 've got a wheelchair , you can go where you want , but it 's very expensive . |
| 13 | The raw copy which floods in from many sources is ‘ tasted ’ , selected , sub-edited and , in a remarkably short space of time , some of it appears on the printed page . |
| 14 | According to the Soil Association — the largest body of organic farmers , of which Tustian is a member — although sales of organic produce have increased overall because there is more of it in the shops ( much of it imported ) , the recession also means that some of it lingers on the shelves for longer . |
| 15 | Once , twice , smash , in it goes on the third kick . |
| 16 | The Irish republican SDLP and other groups which had had members in it turned on the Wilson government with the utmost ferocity for being weak , cowardly and treacherous . |
| 17 | There appears to be a tendency to go from oral-only to speech with speech-supportive means such as fingerspelling or cued speech ; from those there is a movement in the direction of these of sign to better disambiguate the spoken word ; next comes a signed version of the spoke , language either with speech or without it depending on the circumstances ; and finally . |
| 18 | But the primacy given to it depends on the belief that other explanations ( including smallpox ) have been excluded . |
| 19 | it 's five to it says on the bits of paper |
| 20 | I went over to Sheridan to ask him to be quiet and he grabbed my wrist and tried to pull me on to his lap , and I overbalanced and fell and hit the table hard where he was sitting , and I caught the cloth somehow and pulled it with me and everything on it landed on the floor . |
| 21 | Reports and returns relating to manpower were based on the position as it stood on the last day of the relevant month . |
| 22 | Er , I moved the original motion , and the thinking at the time was , after a lot of discussion , that eight one as it appears on the agenda , to maintain the estate at around it 's level was the correct decision . |
| 23 | Hence if a trigram was not present in the corpus then a probability was generated for it based on the bigrams , and if the bigram was absent the probability was based on the unigram . |
| 24 | These examples are given in order to illustrate one of the dangers of the current preoccupation with the duties of citizenship , and that is the scope for it to encroach on the privacy and autonomy of the individual . |
| 25 | There is no conclusive proof , but it is a reasonable assumption , that the Romans knew the place for it lies on the line of their road , which followed that ridge , between their settlements at Manchester and Buxton . |
| 26 | I make no complaint about such information being kept , but I am worried about it appearing on the police national computer when the original request had nothing to do with prostitution . |
| 27 | The young , dark man looked at it lying on the floor . |