Example sentences of "it [vb mod] [vb infin] [adv prt] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | So that when the British Medical Association decided in the late 1950s to inaugurate a programme of discussions among its membership on an appointed ‘ Subject of the Year ’ , it was entirely fitting that for its first discussion-point it should home in on The Adolescent : |
| 2 | If this is what we hear inside with the canopies sealed , God knows how it must sound out on the tarmac ! |
| 3 | It might bring down on me the wrath of Motherdear . ’ |
| 4 | Yes , it 'll come up on Monday next erm , no Monday fortnight , yes , twentieth . |
| 5 | Tha that 's , I suppose , got chemicals in it and it 'll come off on your food . |
| 6 | I missed the end of that , I I hope it 'll come back on again cos I enjoyed it . |
| 7 | It 'll come out on it 's own probably . |
| 8 | ‘ How come it 'll rub off on me ? |
| 9 | The slow version has the most depth , and maybe it 'll turn up on a 12-inch some day , but I really opted for the fast one , because it seemed a really nice way to start the album . ’ |
| 10 | The slow version has the most depth , and maybe it 'll turn up on a 12-inch some day , but I really opted for the fast one , because it seemed a really nice way to start the album . ’ |
| 11 | Well , they used to do them at fourpence ha'penny a pair , and each one must be put in a big envelope , so as it could go out on this catalogue business . |
| 12 | On the other hand , it perhaps also lulled government into a belief that it could cut back on core funding . |
| 13 | So if , for example , Granada loses its franchise , it could fall back on its programme-making and its library to provide a business . |
| 14 | Then it would move off on course again . |
| 15 | Fearing that he might end up excluded , whatever steps were taken next , Edward managed next morning to get a memo through to ‘ C' 's personal assistant , with a promise that it would end up on his desk . |
| 16 | ‘ Surely if it was thrown overboard there was no guarantee that it would finish up on shore where the Man could send someone to fetch it . |
| 17 | It would roll around on the carpet , then leap on to the piano and then on to the pianist 's lap , where it would start licking the hands that played the magic notes . |
| 18 | But with all that enthusiasm you 'd think at least some of it would rub off on David 's employees ? |
| 19 | Britain also rejected the proposal , presumably on the grounds that having to bring its standards up to those of the rest of Europe , it would lose out on the lucrative waste disposal trade it presently invites . |
| 20 | It would come back on your head . |
| 21 | A gentle push on the ‘ swing ’ handle of a Stanley folding door opens and closes it quietly and easily — and it will fold back on itself to just half its original size ! |
| 22 | The recent history of educational innovation , from Nuffield and mixed ability onwards , shows that unless change is generated and/or wholeheartedly appropriated by teachers it will end up on the mounting scrap-heap of ‘ good ideas that never quite took off ’ . |
| 23 | Virtually all possible initial states of a dissipative system are in the basin of an attractor , and so if the motion of a system is followed for long enough , it will end up on an attractor . |
| 24 | By making money follow the pupil , LMS will encourage good schools and penalise bad ones ; and by delegating budgets to individual heads , it will cut down on time-wasting bureaucracy . |
| 25 | It will cut down on dom a number of domestic flights and of short haul flights to and from our European competitors . |
| 26 | It can home in on a car from almost half a mile away . |
| 27 | ‘ And of course , if it can happen out on the lawn , it could happen anywhere . |