Example sentences of "on it [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the tricky fact that some passengers have more money than others ( and Mr Pannick 's taxi has been stopped very frequently by the government in recent years ; he has had a special sign on it since 1988 that says ‘ Junior council to the Crown , common law ’ ) , the author declares that the authorities ‘ must make expenditre reon legal aid a high priority and that the defects in the structure of legal aid are in need of urgent repair ’ . |
| 2 | She moved the chair and leaned on it with one hand . |
| 3 | If X had borrowed the money from the trust and paid interest on it at 10 per cent , then the position would have been as follows . |
| 4 | However , as the table has to be moved out of the way whenever the patient gets up , it should not be too heavy , or have too many items on it at one time . |
| 5 | But while they were out in the garden during the afternoon they began talking to the man next door who had a motorbike and was leaving for the City on it at seven . |
| 6 | Those who would wish to take it in parts please show those against taking it in parts this evening we will vote on it as one amendment in that case . |
| 7 | This system is still available today but no new work has been attempted on it for 18 months . |
| 8 | Len , as he was known to his legion of friends , was elected to Selkirk Town Council in 1956 and served on it for 18 years , as well as on the then county council for 14 years . |
| 9 | Around 1920 when Eliot , with anthropological ideas in the forefront of his mind , had attacked Gilbert Murray 's translations of Euripides , Pound tried to persuade him to translate Aeschylus ' Agamemnon , but Eliot ‘ sat on it for eight months or some longer period ’ . |
| 10 | George made a long thinking , grumbling noise , then said , mostly to himself : ‘ The paperwork must have been good … if they were living on it for eighteen months … they were n't escaped prisoners of war trying to reach Switzerland on a hand-copied Fremdenpass … |
| 11 | Black-leaved ilexes grew in the churchyard and a brassy laburnum had flowers on it for one week out of the year . |
| 12 | This bloke , you know , had been working on it for fifty years nonstop and |
| 13 | Course he 's been on it for six weeks . |
| 14 | hand me swinging on it for ten minutes |
| 15 | No , it 's only a te , well I mean you can only stay on it for ten months a year . |
| 16 | There has n't been anyone on it for thousands of years ! ’ |
| 17 | Like the grave-diggers in Hamlet , they speculated on life : ‘ We 've been working on it for 25 years and we still have n't got round . |
| 18 | I 've got three people working on it right now and they 've been working on it for three years . |
| 19 | See I , mind you whenever I 'm late you see I can get on it for twenty pence except for first thing in morning . |
| 20 | Its solidarity was achieved by its sense of being a small-scale unit isolated from the rest of society , and frequently preying on it in 1922 . |
| 21 | Already preparing himself for the first of his political glittering prizes , the viceroyalty of India , he visited the Trans-Caspian in 1888 and published a book on it in 1889 . |
| 22 | When businesses just want to get on with doing business , ‘ to be told you can take out a summons but then must allow three to four months for the other side to put forward defences , then allow more time for adjustments of claims and defences , and then , subject to the availability of a judge , you 'll get a hearing on it in 18 months ’ time , is less than satisfactory ’ , said , senior partner with Dorman Jeffrey . |
| 23 | This Romanesque triple portico is sculptured by Master Mateo ( who is buried in the church ) and who worked on it from 1168–88 . |
| 24 | During the period of the Call-slip analysis and book condition survey — that is , between 12 and 24 January 1981 — the second copy of each call-slip submitted to the Issue Counter was stamped by a member of staff with the time and date of its submission , and when it ultimately arrived in the Reading Room , accompanied by the book to which it related , the time and date of its arrival was recorded on it by one of two fieldwork students from the College of Librarianship Wales who assisted in the implementation of the Survey . |
| 25 | In this case , the defendant ordered a Rolls Royce chassis from the plaintiffs who agreed to build a body on it by 20 March . |