Example sentences of "it [prep] [adj] [noun] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the early thirteenth century the canons and the laity left it for new Salisbury on the plain , by the river ; and Old Sarum survived only as a castle and a rotten borough . |
| 2 | After the war , Bank use of the hotel began to diminish and in May 1949 it was sold to a member of staff who ran it for many years on his own account . |
| 3 | And I 'm not working next year anyway cos I 've done it for two years on the run and I 'm not doing it next year . |
| 4 | I 'd done it for four years on the trot . |
| 5 | I was supposed to use it for 20 minutes on each side in between Holly 's feeds , which were every two or three hours anyway . |
| 6 | And that 's it for another year on Central News . |
| 7 | She was going to put it in the china vase , only one of the stage hands had left his lighter there for safe keeping , so she stuffed it between two books on the top shelf . |
| 8 | You have an allowance if you need it of ten percent on the spot . |
| 9 | An in-depth review of 6,000 of the group 's 11,000 free-trade loans found that on top of £10m to be provided against beer profits , a further £37m was needed to cover it against potential problems on 2,000 accounts . |
| 10 | The papingo , measuring 8 inches from wingtip to wingtip , is still fixed to the end of a pole extending outwards from the top of the Abbey clock tower , and the archers must shoot vertically at it with one foot on the bottom step of the tower . |
| 11 | He stood beside the cardinal 's chair , leaning against it with one hand on its gilded back . |
| 12 | Abruptness was her most familiar mode , and Liz sometimes fancied that she practised it with peculiar pleasure on Charles , whenever she got the chance : and Charles , accustomed to being listened to with reverence , took it in good part . |
| 13 | Meanwhile , the government published a report from its radioactive waste management advisory committee saying that BNFL had failed to supply it with sufficient information on its proposals to deal with waste arising from work carried out at THORP for foreign customers . |
| 14 | The most urgent task , the report says , is to remove spent reactor fuel and store it in sealed containers on land . |
| 15 | Er , you there 's no offend that I can cover with you , I 'm just having a wee chat with you on it in general terms on it , but I mean I could fill pages and pages |
| 16 | Bees collect it in great baskets on their thighs and take it back to their hives for immediate consumption or for turning into pollen bread which is an essential food for their developing young . |
| 17 | This versatile gas powered styler heats up in minutes and because The Civil Aviation Authority has O.K. 'd it in checked-in luggage on aeroplanes , you really can style your hair anywhere you like ! |
| 18 | So when the Danes reconsider it in another referendum on May 18th , will most Europeans know what is at stake ? |
| 19 | If the dog continues , then place it in another room on its own , re-emphasizing the word quiet . |
| 20 | If it 's to be helpful if if Mr is saying on behalf of the Parish Council that by showing it in this way on the key diagram , he feels is prejudicing or the Parish Council 's position is prejudiced at some future date , then it 's to be helpful to that that the County Council is saying it is prepared to show it simply as a an arrow and similarly for consistency it would seem to make sense to show the western in the same fashion . |
| 21 | We stayed for one night , there , in quite a luxurious hotel , so there was n't anything extraordinary to grumble about : the worst bit was trying to deal with our luggage — trying to retrieve it from piled-up trollies on the airfield in the heat of the day , etc . |
| 22 | For the past three years Brenda has been learning German at the Open Learning Centre on site and she puts it to good use on frequent trips abroad . |
| 23 | The brunette gift wrapped a bomb and handed it to grateful squaddies on point duty in Northern Ireland . |
| 24 | We then see the goal , hopeful chip into the box , Rush attempts to take it to one side on the half volley with Fairclough bearing down , misses it completely , flies up and hits him in the shoulder . |
| 25 | Seduced by the flashy demonstrations or the apparent ease of use of the various environment managers , whether Apple 's , Windows or GEM , they adopted desktop publishing wholesale and gave it to secretarial staff on the assumption that those who produce the documents ought to be the ones who make it look pretty . |
| 26 | Having visited Tullie House , I can confirm that , as my hon. Friend says , it is remarkable , and I commend it to hon. Members on both sides of the House . |
| 27 | Even the back pass could have been salvaged had Beeney realised how crap it was a second earlier , and even then , he could have tried to kick it to either side on Gray , as opposed to trying to kick it as hard as possible … straight at gray . |
| 28 | And then she 's written nearly as much in red ink on the back as I 've written it on black ink on |
| 29 | Then the immigrant purchases a large tract of land , and farms it without any expenditure on soil conservation , often without chemical or organic fertiliser , until yields have declined and degradation or erosion has set in . |
| 30 | Nutty said icily , ‘ Not everyone can afford made horses that do it without any effort on the part of the rider , like yours . |