Example sentences of "it [verb] [adv prt] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only way round this conclusion is to suppose that instead of the chain of justification stretching away to infinity , it turns round on its tail and joins up with itself at some point , forming a circle . |
| 2 | Under the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 the NCC must offer a management agreement to any farmer on an SSSI whose application for an agricultural grant it turns down on conservation grounds . |
| 3 | and stuff like that and then he , then it cuts out , yeah , and then it , then it turns back on again and he says yes I think we 're working and flushes the toilet and walks out |
| 4 | I went and got the pressure-cooker to brain him with and was just about to bring it crashing down on his bonce when I heard Mike calling from the next room . |
| 5 | He raises it over his head and brings it crashing down on the back of the man 's head ; once , twice , three times . |
| 6 | Appropriately it kicks off on the stroke of midnight tomorrow with a pyrotechnic extravaganza likely to distract even the most serious Hogmanay party-goers . |
| 7 | I did n't try the grilled Greek halloumi cheese with pitta bread , but as it passed by on the way to another table I rather wished I had . |
| 8 | In the course of an item on The Late Show , viewers were confidently told that Sean 's Show is ‘ the first postmodernist sitcom ’ , that it goes out on Thursdays , and that it 's a Channel 4 programme . |
| 9 | Look every time we 've done it that 's what we also do it goes out on the manager 's report w with the minutes or with the agenda . |
| 10 | There was Tizer and cream soda and beer and lassi to drink , all of it laid out on white tablecloths with tiny paper napkins for all of us . |
| 11 | because it rubs off on them |
| 12 | It crept up on you quietly |
| 13 | It swooped down on one of the dogs and was standing on its chest with its beak at her throat . |
| 14 | and then it homes in on one of the men right and it goes sort of whee one hour later whee whee bom bom bom and the other one goes one hour later right and the computer just explodes and it just goes boom |
| 15 | He denied UI would be doing this to appease SunSoft and others reportedly unhappy about the situation , and refuted suggestions that SunSoft wants UI 's commitment to use other suppliers and non-USL technologies as a pre-requisite for it signing off on the ABI effort . |
| 16 | The public may best remember its airshows , but history 's more likely to credit Abingdon with the vital maintenance work it carried out on Allied aircraft from World War Two to the Gulf conflict . |
| 17 | You can get it spaced up on the screen , and you can print it out . |
| 18 | ‘ It did not catch my foot , for I was already wheeling away , but it crashed down on my wing and caught it in its grip . |
| 19 | Jen grabs for the bottle and it drops down on the grass and rolls away , glug , gurgle . |
| 20 | Mortars are shorter , heavier weapons than cannons , designed to lob an explosive shell high into the air so that it drops down on the target from the sky . |
| 21 | If that does not deter you , it drops back on all fours , turns its back on you and squirts . |
| 22 | Teesside magistrates heard how the two Middlesbrough men used an electronic tagging device to track a terrier as it bore down on badgers in a well known sett . |
| 23 | FLOORS Wherever there is water or liquid , there is the danger of it ending up on the floor and causing you to slip . |
| 24 | It shuttled around on the picture . |
| 25 | Too often , he says , we only recognise an opportunity when it arrives back on our doorstep as an import . |
| 26 | It happens out on the streets , behind closed doors , in corridors of power , in the seat of government . |
| 27 | Seawater percolates down through fractures , becomes super-heated and leaches metal from the rocks it passes through on its way back to the sea floor . |
| 28 | Society is not hostile , it passes by on the other side . |
| 29 | The next shot is of the traffic itself , and we pan with a quaint three-wheel vehicle as it passes by on its way to market with a cargo of onions . |
| 30 | ‘ It came up on the PA tapes an hour ago . |