Example sentences of "it [vb past] [adv] on [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It came off on the playing field and so there was no way I could find the little screw . |
| 2 | With a creak it opened inwards on a dark hole . |
| 3 | It relied substantially on a voluntary approach . |
| 4 | Reconstituted in November 1988 [ see pp. 36399 , 36939 , 36960 ] , it campaigned effectively on the single issue of compensation for property expropriated under the communist regime [ see p. 38352 for eventual legislation on this in July 1991 ] , with the Independent Smallholders ' Party winning 44 seats in the 1990 elections [ see pp. 37325 ; 37380 ] and becoming a coalition partner in the government of Jozsef Antall . |
| 5 | It fed both on a new nationalism , and a revivification of orthodoxy in the face of the challenge of science and materialism . |
| 6 | She was about to reach for her drink when she caught sight of the car out of the corner of her eye as it pulled up on the opposite side of the road — a white BMW , identical to the one her uncle had . |
| 7 | It brought together on a grand scale the children of many nations whose parents and older brothers would have fought on opposing sides in the war . |
| 8 | Oxford Regional Health Authority explained why it went back on the original decision saying , ’ We understood that the law said quite clearly the health authority could not provide treatment in private homes . |
| 9 | It lay there on the dry cracked mud below the high water mark , waiting for the next tide to wet its bottom . |
| 10 | The whole business here at Miss Bedwelty 's seemed far less daunting than it did out on the industrial estate . |
| 11 | Of course you ca n't ride it up trackless slopes of heather , peat hags and boulder fields — in fact you have to carry it on your shoulder as soon as you leave any kind of track at all — but it performed brilliantly on the rocky Land-Rover track back down from the hill . |
| 12 | The question always is whether the defamation is of the class itself ( in which case no action arises ) or whether ordinary readers would believe that it reflected directly on the individual plaintiff . |
| 13 | On its return journey at 5.30 pm it ran back on the slow up line and into Loughton siding where there was a raised platform some 60ft long at coach footboard height , for milk churns to be loaded on the daily milk train . |
| 14 | The bird 's darting eye sought his frantically before it glazed ; he thought as it twitched about on the hard dry clods that he might break its neck to bring its death throes to an end . |
| 15 | It missed out on a small but significant slice of the market . |
| 16 | It closed possessively on the aroused peak , sending delicious waves of pleasure shuddering through her . |
| 17 | For Maine , as the family expands into a descent group , the property it held before on an individual basis becomes communal property simply because the descent group is a ‘ larger family ’ . |