Example sentences of "on it at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Swales might , at last , have made a wise decision — if he does not go back on it at the first sign of failure . |
| 2 | In Carthage an inveterate schism ( Donatism ) originated when a devout and wealthy lady who treasured the relic of a martyr was rebuked for lavishing kisses on it at the commemoration of the faithful departed at the eucharist ; ‘ she went off in a huff |
| 3 | Poindexter discoursed on it at the hearings , tamping his pipe , with the aid of the sort of brightly-coloured maps usually found in school atlases . |
| 4 | It is Denethor 's insistence on defending this ( III , 89 ) that nearly kills Faramir , and all it does in practice is to obstruct the arrival of the Rohirrim ( III , 111 ) by which time it is already a ‘ ruin' , for all the ‘ labour ’ wasted on it at the start . |
| 5 | ‘ And if I had to put money on it at the moment then I would back Arsenal to win the title . ’ |
| 6 | While Alex Higgins reckons snooker can seriously damage your health , Davis is positively thriving on it at the moment . |
| 7 | He has a singular mind and what is on it at the moment , seems , in our time of stagnation , to speak for a lost England ; and England which for the moment has been buried beneath the slogans of ideology and the jargon of modish materialism and press vendettas and bile . |
| 8 | In fact sir , the County Council 's figures produced in another appendix , ca n't lay my hands on it at the moment , had put this figure in as three thousand six hundred and fifty , but the nub of those two things are , that over that six month period , we 're not only seeing more houses built but we have more consented , and that has n't affected the residue that appears in the rest of these schedules . |
| 9 | The Save Venice trust are working on it at the moment . |
| 10 | And I tried to get on it at the beginning of the week but he told me it was fully booked . |
| 11 | The motorways through Oxfordshire and west Buckinghamshire are quite er busy this evening , the M25 Buckinghamshire section at clockwise junction 15 to 16 the M4/M40 interchange has very heavy slow traffic on it at the moment , it would be best to avoid that section if you can er to avoid fairly major delays this evening . |