Example sentences of "[noun sg] on it [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He made a pun on it for the title of his revue Cranks . |
| 2 | Sometimes it was important to spoil oneself — Helena had written a piece on it for the last issue of Athene , explaining that when women felt the need for a little luxury they should give in to it , that pampering oneself created an inner glow which proclaimed that this was a Special Woman . |
| 3 | The sponsors of the bill made clear their intention to press for a vote on it within the current legislative session . |
| 4 | Keynes began work on it during the worst year of the slump , under a government which had slammed the door on his favourite project of public works . |
| 5 | Keep it in the quarantine tank , cease medication and keep an eye on it for the next few months . |
| 6 | If a UK beneficiary is entitled to the trust income because , for example , he has an interest in possession , the income may form part of his total income and he would pay tax on it in the normal way . |
| 7 | Panyi island , where Sapan and Strawberry lived , had only enough room on it for the mosque . |
| 8 | It was a Madonna one and it had a bit of other stuff on it on the other side . |
| 9 | I am personally impressed and encouraged by what is going on in some of the hardest hit areas in my part of the world and by a series of what you might call chance accident , we 've actually got a sign on it on the platform here . |
| 10 | The poll tax is an albatross round the Government 's neck and the council tax will be another , because the Government will not allow proper debate on it in the House . |
| 11 | The motorways through Oxfordshire and west Buckinghamshire are quite er busy this evening , the M25 Buckinghamshire section at clockwise junction 15 to 16 the M4/M40 interchange has very heavy slow traffic on it at the moment , it would be best to avoid that section if you can er to avoid fairly major delays this evening . |
| 12 | On the subject of the draft union treaty , Gorbachev introduced the idea of holding a referendum on it throughout the country . |
| 13 | The company , whose workstation and systems business is now housed in a wholly-owned subsidiary called Axil Workstations in San Jose , California , reckons Sun Microsystems Inc will only have a month 's headstart on it in the SuperSparc market . |
| 14 | ‘ And if I had to put money on it at the moment then I would back Arsenal to win the title . ’ |
| 15 | He 'd been so lovely , and her shoulder still burned where he 'd put a hand on it after the game . |
| 16 | I went to the alpine Club library in London and found that while the mountain does n't have the drama of the Matterhorn or the Eiger , there had been a lot of activity on it in the Golden Age . |
| 17 | The Trades Union Congress has organised a lobby of Parliament for that day and the Labour leader , John Smith , is almost certain to press the Prime Minister on it in the Commons . |
| 18 | Again , the liability depends upon the money or property in question being received in the ordinary course of the receiving partner 's activities within the firm and not upon any authority vested in himsee Willett v Chambers ( 1778 ) Cowp 814 ( misapplication of moneys received from a client for investment on mortgage , the client being billed in the name of the firm ) , Rhodes v Moules [ 1895 ] 1 Ch 236 ( partner absconding with bearer share warrants proffered by client as collateral security for a mortgage loan , where the firm was in the habit of receiving such securities from its clients ) and Blair v Bromley ( 1847 ) 12 Ph 354 ( misapplication of money by a partner who paid interest on it to the client , the fraud only coming to light on the partner 's bankruptcy . |
| 19 | It had quite a strong catch on it by the look of it |