Example sentences of "it [adj] [noun] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Philip and she spent sixty pounds of it that afternoon on a secondhand gas boiler . |
| 2 | Without calling for one 's whole attention , it so persistently demands a small part of it that concentration on anything else is ruled out . |
| 3 | ‘ If your form is n't so clear , you 're not going to get it right sitting on the bench . ’ |
| 4 | Mahler himself conducted it this way on one occasion . ’ |
| 5 | I used it this morning on one of Slash Harry 's victims and the edge is rather blunted " — his mania for self-advertisement and his intolerable bucolic laugh , and was grateful that at least he would n't be interrogating that redoubtable old phoney . |
| 6 | I 'll give you examples perhaps of none , none of these I must admit I , I do n't , I do n't think , they 're not my style I much more my page my training tend to have just two or three points on it rubber stamps on the side flipchart all this sort of stuff big question . |
| 7 | Can I just make it clear Chairman on the amendment . |
| 8 | John can you really press ahead with this recommendation in the light of the fact that there is clearly such mass local feeling about it such distrust on on a grand scale of the reassurances that you and fellow planners have made ? |
| 9 | Was it mere petulance on the part of a former leader who remains unreconciled to her overthrow ? |
| 10 | SCOTLAND made it three wins on the trot in the Home International Indoor Championships in Swansea yesterday despite losing out in their final fixture with England , 106-113 . |
| 11 | ‘ He was watching it all day on TV . |
| 12 | ‘ It all rests on this final question ! ’ shouts the game show host maniacally . |
| 13 | ‘ It all hinges on Prosser v. |
| 14 | It all hinges on motive , on whether Georgina knew about the divorce , and that Arabella was pregnant . |
| 15 | It all hinges on B A's share of slots at Heathrow which is about forty percent . |
| 16 | It all ends on a fantasy scene in which the wrong man gets the girl and England win . |
| 17 | The advantages of the Lucas bus is that the rubber tyres give it better grip on steel and help to reduce shocks on the chassis . |
| 18 | The mountain goat is built primarily for steady , tireless climbing rather than speed and great agility : its short legs and short body , which allow it to place all four feet close together , also give it great stability on narrow , uneven ledges . |
| 19 | Death rates increased all the time , as hormonally charged adolescents flocked to give it heavy Brando on Honda C50s . |
| 20 | It swells and shrinks , changing its output as it does so ; the official magnitude range is from 0.4 to 0.9 , but over the past decades I have seen it matching Rigel on rare occasions , while it is not often as faint as Aldebaran . |
| 21 | Paul Hentzner , a German traveller , has described the scene in the Presence Chamber as the Queen passed through it one Sunday on her way to chapel . |
| 22 | Was it sheer bravado on Obispal 's part that he disdained to fire explosive bolts at that creature which itself could not manipulate a gun ? |
| 23 | The importance of the Positive School is that it focussed attention on motivation and on the individual criminal . |
| 24 | She lifted her head and banged it several times on the floor . |
| 25 | Nor did Moscow raise the principles of non-alignment when it transferred arms on a large scale to radical ‘ non-aligned ’ African states in the 1970s or to Afghanistan in the 1980s . |
| 26 | I would have said while I was putting out my washing cos I did it last night on purpose for the gas man coming in . |
| 27 | He 's been doing it last year on this foot mm , I think it was claw . |
| 28 | Well think , did n't she give up last year ? she said something about it last year on radio , on no smoking day . |
| 29 | The very flexible hooves of the mountain goat give it maximum grip on precarious slopes and dizzy ledges . |
| 30 | Essentially what it 's talking about it inward investment on small scale . |