Example sentences of "on it [prep] [art] [num ord] [noun sg] " 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 | Gain-up does tend to make the picture look rather grainy , though , so it is best to look on it as a last resort and reserve it for those times when a grainy picture is better than no picture at all . |
| 3 | His eye fell on it for the first time as it sprang onto the marble plinth and clutched at the neck of the vase to steady itself . |
| 4 | Sometimes it was important to spoil oneself — Helena had written a piece on it for the last issue of Athene , explaining that when women felt the need for a little luxury they should give in to it , that pampering oneself created an inner glow which proclaimed that this was a Special Woman . |
| 5 | But it is certainly possible , at least , that he survived the Cross — if , indeed , it was he who was on it in the first place , rather than the substitute claimed by the Koran and by many early heresies . |
| 6 | My film adaptation of Anthony Delano 's richly comic book slip-Up ’ How Fleet Street caught Ronnie Biggs and Scotland Yard lost him ’ cost the not unastronomical sum of £600,000 to make , so should it turn out to be money down the drain the BBC will have to face some embarrassing questions about why it embarked on it in the first place if it thought the story might be defamatory . |
| 7 | Even if it may be some time before they are commercially acceptable , pioneer work is essential if our planet is to feed the teeming millions of people who will live on it by the twenty-first century . |