Example sentences of "[prep] it [verb] on [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cos it was indigo on Monday as out it go on Saturday , if you were lucky . |
| 2 | He had a small but good library , much of it kept on shelves on the first landing . |
| 3 | York 's renaissance under Ward is the work of a team costing just Pounds 50,000 — all of it spent on striker Paul Barnes , signed during the close-season from Stoke . |
| 4 | None of it goes on salaries or administration because all of that is covered by sponsorship or by the interest on banked money . |
| 5 | Learning how to love — you see a lot of it depends on benevolence , as I say , there 's caring for other people , you see , developing a sense of community , you see , it is avoiding the sort of things we get into in Northern Ireland , erm Cyprus , Lebanon , where you get these absolutely nightmarish cultures of violence that just go on generation after generation and are utterly useless . |
| 6 | Stubbs cites many other examples of how written language may involve structural ambiguity so that making grammatical sense of it depends on context and the knowledge the reader brings to the text ( e.g. ibid. p. 59 ) . |
| 7 | Most of this falls back into the sea , as rain or snow , but 100 000 cubic kilometres of it falls on land . |
| 8 | If it was not until later that the accused discovered that he had been overpaid it is suggested that the money no longer belongs to another because ownership of it passes on payment . |
| 9 | Oliver North to Iran , travelling on Irish passports , to organize the sale of TOW missiles and launchers to the Iranian government in exchange for the release of American hostages ; details of money transfers and bank accounts , with dates and places — most of it based on incidents and conversations that could only have been known to the Iranian or American negotiators . |
| 10 | The subject of obsolescence has generated a considerable amount of literature , most of it based on citation studies — that is , studies showing the number of times that individual books or periodical articles are cited in the lists of references given at the end of a piece of research ( a method , it can be seen , which is distinct from studies of actual library use ) . |
| 11 | I ca n't play it properly anyway and I know the sound of it gets on Mum 's nerves . ’ |
| 12 | So it is very important to know how to manage it , that is , how to keep it under your control instead of it getting on top of you . |
| 13 | The administration of his estate took 22s. 8d. of this , half of it going on fees , plus 2s. to the pardoner for letters of pardon and 5d. to the summoner . |
| 14 | Despite the ‘ ceasefire ’ , considerable bitterness remained in several quarters , much of it focusing on Mr Ruslan Khasbulatov , Speaker of parliament , who described ministers as children who had lost their way . |
| 15 | It is probably safer in an upside-down jump to stay with your equipment rather than abandoning in mid-air since there is a risk of it landing on top of you . |
| 16 | Most of it comes on diesel trucks . |
| 17 | Any aspect of it reproduced on TV would be starkly unhelpful . |
| 18 | ‘ It does n't look anything like it does on TV , ’ said Craig Parry 's caddy as he set off with his man and Wayne Grady down the 10th in practice . |
| 19 | This duality between solidity and beauty thus expressed a sharp division between the material and the ideal , the bodily and the spiritual , highly typical of the bourgeois world ; yet spirit and ideal in it depended on matter , and could be expressed only through matter , or at least through the money which could buy it . |
| 20 | The meeting counts as the third round in the Ulster championship and will in fact be a two day affair for it begins on Friday night at 7.00pm . |