Example sentences of "on it [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " 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 | Swales might , at last , have made a wise decision — if he does not go back on it at the first sign of failure . |
| 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 | This one sheet of graph paper for our dieter will therefore have twelve points marked on it along the bottom axis ( one for each month ) and around thirty points marked on the other axis ( each point representing 1 lb or 0.45 kg ) . |
| 6 | It was a Madonna one and it had a bit of other stuff on it on the other side . |
| 7 | Keynes began work on it during the worst year of the slump , under a government which had slammed the door on his favourite project of public works . |
| 8 | He had a cup of tea at Carrie 's today just you know , checking the tape and making sure that people 's names are on it in the correct order and what did you do ? |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | If a UK beneficiary is entitled to the trust income because , for example , he has an interest in possession , the income may form part of his total income and he would pay tax on it in the normal way . |
| 12 | I went to the alpine Club library in London and found that while the mountain does n't have the drama of the Matterhorn or the Eiger , there had been a lot of activity on it in the Golden Age . |
| 13 | Look on it in the same way as the treads on your bike or car tyres . |
| 14 | The boy was holding a magnifying glass over a postcard and writing on it in the tiniest hand . |
| 15 | She borrows books on it from the local library and copies out old patterns . |
| 16 | That conflict of views has its fierce advocates on both sides , and I am neither well informed nor dispassionate enough to comment on it From the presumed perspective of John Howard , the Ellis-Beto administrations overall emerge with credit , because they did insist on the publication of official rules , and that was a big breakthrough . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The recent report of the National Foundation for Educational Research did not attribute any decline to the national curriculum ; the interpretation placed on it by the hon. Lady and her hon. Friend the Member for Ealing , Southall ( Mr. Bidwell ) is based on a deliberate misreading of the report . |
| 19 | They had been working all the evening , sewing Rosie 's wedding-dress , and it would be terribly unlucky if the bridegroom set eyes on it before the great day . |