Example sentences of "on it [conj] [pers pn] [vb mod] " in BNC.

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1 It 's got a very thick safety glass door on it so you can see what the little dears are doing but ca n't hear them . ’
2 Well put an indoor aerial on it so you can
3 My parents were not very well off when they bought it , and they had to have quite a lot of work done on it before we could move in .
4 He bent and twisted himself before it , jerking suddenly this way and that , as if he were lying in wait for disease , determined to pounce on it before it could strike .
5 When I was young , we had an old Victorian wardrobe with a mirror on it that I used to sing to .
6 He could at least spend the money on it that he would have used in buying a ticket to see Dinah , in powdered wig and paduasoy , as Lady Teazle , once again .
7 And there 's tear stains on it but I 'll put up with that .
8 ‘ You could n't so much as bruise the mosses on it but I 'd know .
9 ‘ Just give Nether Oldfield a buzz and tell them to close St Benet Church and put a man back on it till we can get down there , ’ he ordered as they drew out of the cathedral close , under the Dersingham arch .
10 Explaining that you know you either want further information on it or you would like to erm you know take that one up .
11 ‘ I want to get as many scousers on it as I can , and a lot of women ; I want it to favour women . ’
12 The wheelchair provides the ideal type of support , as the patient can not lean on it as he would on a walking frame , because the chair would tip up .
13 It does n't kill you , but it means you spend an hour on it when you could be doing the rest of your exam .
14 I am sure that the right way forward in these matters is to discuss differences around the table for however long it takes , reach an agreement if that is possible , and act on it if we can .
15 The innovation of the laser-guided bomb is that you can aim at anything : just point the laser at it , and the bomb will fall on it if it can .
16 Do take the occasional trip on it if you can , it is a pleasant way of getting to Shrewsbury and practical if you live anywhere near the line .
17 No skimping , and I 'd look kindly on it if you 'd provide her with petticoats .
18 So you 've got your graph now and then they 'd have a question on it and they might say , Erm what would be the weight with five engines ?
19 and secondly we say that er we 're setting aside the question of discrimination primary basis section fourteen is an absolute block on it and you ca n't have it more complete er , er undermining of article eighty five and again even if the bad faith point arises , er simply makes it and we say quite clearly excessively difficult to enforce article eighty five
20 The footswitch socket is a DIN type , hence the plug is somewhat flimsy — stand on it and you could spend the rest of the gig trying to get it back into shape .
21 The exam paper 's two hours , there 'll be six questions on it and you will have to do three essays , right ?
22 Put the cheque in the mail today with that date on it and I 'll hold it until then before banking it . ’
23 But for that I need Wealth , O Lord , I confess it : without it I am worthless ; just let me get my hands on it and I will be an ornament to Your name . ’
24 My bass , for instance , has a .040″ 1st on it and I can bend it quite easily .
25 If I 'd been anything less than convincing , the audience would have picked up on it and I 'd have been furious with myself .
26 I had to have a cast on it and I could n't play guitar at all in any fashion .
27 Oh er telly 's got a buzz on it and I could n't get it off , I think I made it worse .
28 But what he said was that erm the house wanted a lot of money spending on it and he could n't afford to do it .
29 Where an instrument is laid subject to affirmative resolution procedure , the Government sponsoring it must find time in the Houses for a vote on it and it must secure an affirmative vote .
30 Not surprisingly , most of the unemployed do n't live on it because they ca n't .
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