Example sentences of "on it [conj] [pers pn] could " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I had to have a cast on it and I could n't play guitar at all in any fashion . |
| 6 | Oh er telly 's got a buzz on it and I could n't get it off , I think I made it worse . |
| 7 | 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 . |