Example sentences of "it [verb] [noun prp] on " in BNC.
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1 | It caught Jotan on the forehead and he collapsed without a sound . |
2 | Well it says Newark on front . |
3 | It reaches Manchester on Wednesday , the same day that Philip Langridge opens at Covent Garden in Elijah Moshinsky 's proto-Brechtian Grimes . |
4 | Whatever , it keeps Mace on his toes . |
5 | Marcus Browning got it to send Hereford on the way to an easy win over Halifax Town . |
6 | The infant retrieves , or witnesses the retrieval of an object from behind A ( say ) three times , after which he watches as the experimenter moves it to place B. On seeing it vanish at B he will go straight back to A. Although the back-to-A error is more likely to be made the longer the delay between hiding at B and allowing search , this is not a memory problem in any simple sense because the infant will return to A even if the object remains visible at B. We find a particularly clear demonstration of this kind of ‘ perseveration ’ in an experiment by Paul Harris in which there were two transparent , lockable boxes as the A and the B location . |
7 | Mitchell Thomas tried to hook the ball clear , but it struck Miklosko on the shoulder and flew into the net . |
8 | That was Courtaulds ' buoyant message to the market when it launched Tencel on the latest stage of its pioneering journey in December . |