Example sentences of "on it for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gandhi indeed could count on the British conscience for his personal safety , but he could never count on it for political concessions — and it is clear that at some level he understood this . |
| 2 | This system is still available today but no new work has been attempted on it for 18 months . |
| 3 | Len , as he was known to his legion of friends , was elected to Selkirk Town Council in 1956 and served on it for 18 years , as well as on the then county council for 14 years . |
| 4 | But why anyone would want to carry a bike up a mountain on their shoulder for the pleasure of being able to bump about on it for tiny , short stretches of flat ridge was completely beyond me . |
| 5 | Around 1920 when Eliot , with anthropological ideas in the forefront of his mind , had attacked Gilbert Murray 's translations of Euripides , Pound tried to persuade him to translate Aeschylus ' Agamemnon , but Eliot ‘ sat on it for eight months or some longer period ’ . |
| 6 | George made a long thinking , grumbling noise , then said , mostly to himself : ‘ The paperwork must have been good … if they were living on it for eighteen months … they were n't escaped prisoners of war trying to reach Switzerland on a hand-copied Fremdenpass … |
| 7 | The discovery of more stable chemicals ( Table 3 ) — the true residual insecticides — which were sprayed on to the walls and roofs of dwellings and left a deposit that was lethal to mosquitoes resting on it for many weeks and even months , produced the ideal control that did not demand an impossibly high efficiency . |
| 8 | The keys of old harpsichords are indeed often seen to be hollowed ; however , what this suggests is not that Handel had been assiduously practising on it for many years , but rather that ( being at least loo years old when Hawkins saw it ) it had never had the keys replated. 19th-century scholars were intrigued by this tale , and more than a century after Handel 's death embarked on the quest to rediscover the instrument . |
| 9 | Black-leaved ilexes grew in the churchyard and a brassy laburnum had flowers on it for one week out of the year . |
| 10 | And they probably have cameras on it for all I know . |
| 11 | It 's not , it 's just like a little bead , it 's meant to be on it for that and |
| 12 | This bloke , you know , had been working on it for fifty years nonstop and |
| 13 | Course he 's been on it for six weeks . |
| 14 | Why does n't it have a mark on it for absolute brass monkeys ? |
| 15 | hand me swinging on it for ten minutes |
| 16 | No , it 's only a te , well I mean you can only stay on it for ten months a year . |
| 17 | We sat around chewing on it for another thirty minutes or so . |
| 18 | I 've been working on it for most of the week , so do n't make me mess it up . |
| 19 | But it was the Greek islands on which his attention was finally fastened , notably Hydra ( Ydra ) in the Saronic Gulf , which had had an artistic community on it for some years . |
| 20 | There has n't been anyone on it for thousands of years ! ’ |
| 21 | Like the grave-diggers in Hamlet , they speculated on life : ‘ We 've been working on it for 25 years and we still have n't got round . |
| 22 | I 've got three people working on it right now and they 've been working on it for three years . |
| 23 | See I , mind you whenever I 'm late you see I can get on it for twenty pence except for first thing in morning . |