Example sentences of "it [verb] [adj] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | It got stuck on the fence . |
| 2 | Bet it , bet it goes flat on you though |
| 3 | So , normally the boiler will malfunction on the D6 roll of a 6 , but if the Steam Tank has sustained 1 wound it will malfunction on a 5 or 6 , if it has 2 wounds it goes wrong on a 4 , 5 or 6 and so on . |
| 4 | Why is it that structural ageism sanctions discrimination against older people and enables it to continue unnoticed on a daily basis , and remain unchanged over many years ? |
| 5 | In a case brought by the RSPCA , it 's alleged that a horse was repeatedly beaten with a whip after it became stuck on a high gate . |
| 6 | The case was brought by the RSPCA after claims that the animal was subjected to brutality when it became stuck on a five bar gate . |
| 7 | But it became obvious on the next pitch that even had I been so inspired we would not have progressed much further . |
| 8 | Sounds foul , but it tastes good on meat . ’ |
| 9 | And it ignites all on it 's own ! a terrible state ! |
| 10 | When ‘ playing possum ’ it lies limply on the ground and can even be bitten hard by an attacker without showing any response . |
| 11 | The concert hall capacity is 320 , filled nearly to that figure at weekends or on special occasions but usually it stands empty on weekdays . |
| 12 | It looks better on your record than being made redundant |
| 13 | The manager can say this and that and it looks good on paper and there may be great reasoning behind it . |
| 14 | ‘ The collection 's called ‘ Owo ’ , Nigerian for ‘ person ’ — it looks good on both men and women , whether they 're on open Swiss ski-slopes or in a cramped British club . |
| 15 | So that erm , it does you good to have a job , it looks good on a C V , and they would do as little as possible , and if you , if you disciplined them , then one of them says oh well , I 'll leave , me dad will give me the money anyway . |
| 16 | Now , the reason why we 're getting a fairly high test statistic is that er , that distribution , although it looks normal on the left hand side , it does n't look particularly normal erm on the right and that we are missing some observations , we are missing some values of the residuals er in one area of the graph , nevertheless if we had a larger sample , right we probably erm , right it does n't look , that looks quite encouraging in actual fact , those residuals do seem to be er normally distributed er what the test statistic is doing er it 's saying it 's performing a , it 's a kiescraper two test , it 's making two restrictions , one of which is saying , is the distribution of these residuals symmetric er and also it 's testing whether there 's one of the tails is a lot larger or a lot longer than the other tail of the distribution and er test statistics fairly high but we would n't reject the null of normality at the five percent level so our test statistic is four point zero eight and the critical value is five point nine nine and that the five percent significance level , so we 've got reasonably er robust residuals . |
| 17 | I think it looks awful on boys ! |
| 18 | Anyway if you 're late it looks bad on you anyway straight away do n't it ? |
| 19 | I wonder whether that 's what er , I wonder i you see it looks damp on the top does n't it ? |
| 20 | It looks alright on the surface , you 're not going through a hassle at the moment , and our memories are short , fortunately and once we come into a calm patch the hassles of yesterday are quickly forgotten . |
| 21 | No , but Donna , Donna , it looks alright on Donna , but Kelly just looks Been going Georgie 's lately getting all posters off of him . |
| 22 | ‘ It seems it has more on its mind than a pee . ’ |
| 23 | It depends first on what you 've been doing in those 29 years , whether you 're willing to get new skills if necessary , and finally , how persistent you are in your job search . |
| 24 | Modernism was played out , and it seemed absurd on all sorts of grounds that there should be no contemporary equivalent to The Faerie Queene or Trollope 's Barchester novels . |
| 25 | If the amount is under £50 , ask for the customer 's cheque card and check that the details on it match those on the cheque . |
| 26 | I staggered back , partly to make it look good on the off chance there was somebody watching and partly because letting go of the winch had put me off balance . |
| 27 | Does it look good on . |
| 28 | In particular , the weakness of the US dollar has made it look cheap on a comparison of purchasing power . |
| 29 | Felt it scrape first on a soft surface and then on a surface smooth like metal . |
| 30 | A large bustard whose backward-pointing crest gives it an outline more like the African Kori Bustard A. kon than the Great Bustard , like which it shows white on the wings in flight . |