Example sentences of "on it [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I recently bought a Series III 1979 lightweight with 19,000 miles on it through the British Army auction here in Hong Kong . |
| 2 | I have checked my PC thoroughly , and I confirm that there is no trace of the above database on it under PARADOX . |
| 3 | It has put in it 's place , a , er a general purposes and finance sub- committee , this is this one referred to , it has not made allowances for who shall serve on it per county , all it did , it called it together very quickly , and to cut costs to authorities , it 's based the meetings in Bristol instead of Exeter , and it was suggested by the chairman of W R A D , that perhaps any volunteers coming onto it , erm , would in fact come from the surrounding counties . |
| 4 | This country has the most comprehensive system of legal aid in the world and spends more on it per head of population than any other country . |
| 5 | I 've got some bollocks on it about some girl in my class called Karen wanking or something and all sorts of other shit and like |
| 6 | 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 ’ . |
| 7 | Amdahl , Fujitsu , Hyundai , ICL , LSI , Matsushita , Philips , Ross Technology , Sun Microsystems Labs and Texas Instruments are said to have collaborated on it since March of last year as a team reportedly independent of their affiliations . |
| 8 | and ever since then er well the only thing I 've done on it since then is to just er Sue loaded |
| 9 | I engineered it and produced it , I did all the bass and everything else on it except the drums . |
| 10 | He picked her up with exquisite gentleness , kissed her cheeks , laid her gently on the bed , and lay down on it beside her , his hands pulling her body close to his . |
| 11 | piled on it beside it . |
| 12 | On a chair in the scullery in his cardigan and his cap and his bad leg stuck out to one side , and his tins of paint on newspapers all around , and a big panel of wood propped up against the wall with a picture on it of a battleship in a stormy sea . |
| 13 | He spoke of the impermanence of the European environment and the influence on it of man 's activities . |
| 14 | A huge orange and black van with the full the name of the owner on it of course , because if you want to advertise something a removal van is one of the best things in the world for putting an advert on if you want people to see it that is . |
| 15 | It does say on it of course ‘ payable on demand ’ and not ‘ payable to bearer ’ in this instance , and that is quite an important difference . |
| 16 | But the good-night was not as definite as it sounded and Fritz , cowed though he was , knew it and walked with Erika to her bus-stop and waited with her in the cold until the bus did trundle along , and even then he made an attempt to get on it with her , a ploy which , with a deft use of her elbow , Erika foiled , leaving him standing at the bus-stop ; a lonely rejected youth , bowed as with the sorrows of all the world — and yet irresistibly comic . |
| 17 | Yesterday they played on it with delirious joy . |
| 18 | For this reason , the seventeenth century looked on it with varying degrees of embarrassed caution and suspicion . |
| 19 | And he went on gazing out of the window , drawing on it with his finger until Mrs Hollins came out and rapped on the glass . |
| 20 | Mouse suddenly thought of his stomach as having a big red circular target on it with HIT THERE printed in the centre . |
| 21 | Three black youths with huge , multicoloured knitted caps pulled over their dreadlocks like tea-cosies lean against the plateglass window of the shopping-precinct cafe , drumming a reggae beat on it with their finger-tips until shooed away by the manageress . |
| 22 | Because in the poorer streets , if you saw — the neighbours in the street knew an old couple , they were too old to work … and if you saw an old blue van with a coat of arms on it with an old horse , old grey horse driven by an old grey man , drive up the street , stop outside the door , you knew that the old couple were on the way to the workhouse . |
| 23 | She moved the chair and leaned on it with one hand . |
| 24 | Kirstein wanted to see the ballet in preparation before confirming the commission , so John began working on it with dancers of Sadler 's Wells Theatre Ballet , including Miller as the heroine . |
| 25 | A huge head it had on it with rows of teeth and this long sleek green body with all the fins sort of pushed down towards the tail to give it speed in the water I suppose . |
| 26 | It fell on the floor and rolled towards Uncle Mick 's feet — and he promptly stood on it with all his forty-year police authority and his size ten boots . |
| 27 | Always inspect each hook closely before you use it ; test it for breaking or bending ; reduce or remove the barb where necessary , and work on it with a fine oil stone until it is as sharp as you can get it — this should not actually be necessary with the new chemically sharpened hooks . |
| 28 | Its thirteen powerful dorsal spines contain enough poison to kill any human swimmer who accidentally treads on it with a bare foot . |
| 29 | He made the mistake of turning round , stumbled and fell on one knee and then rose , sobbing in terror as he clawed his way to the main gate , hammering on it with all his might . |
| 30 | Who else was in on it with him ? ’ |