Example sentences of "[prep] it on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their prey this morning was Lawn House , lying just below it on the hillside . |
| 2 | Raskolnikov uses the blade of his axe on her , whereas he has just used the back of it on the older woman , crushing her skull . |
| 3 | I must want my head tested sorting mail all day when I could be picking up wads of it on the lorries . ’ |
| 4 | Although there is no mention of it on the map , I could swear that the tiny loch has a crannog in it . |
| 5 | Biting back feelings of inadequacy , frustration and anger I tied up the bundle as well as I could , resigning myself to losing most of it on the way down the hill , preparing for laughter and jeers when we got to the village . |
| 6 | When the chicken leg is cooked , cook the stuffing by the side of it on the same plate , according to the instructions on the packet . |
| 7 | This view of research in respect of language teaching has , as I showed in Chapter 2 , led to an unfortunate separation of roles which has proved damaging to the pedagogic cause : the researcher as the producer of truth on the one hand , and the language teacher as a consumer of it on the other . |
| 8 | Mary Queen of Scots chose black morocco emblazoned with the royal lion of Scotland ; the French statesman Jean Baptiste Colbert had his 50,000 books bound in a morocco specially imported by treaty with the Sultan of Morocco ; one of the d'Urfe family opted for green velvet for his library of four thousand ; Madame du Deffand , friend of Voltaire and Horace Walpole ( to whom she left the care of her dog Tonton ) , endeavoured to immortalise her cat by using a gold stamp of it on the spines of her books ; the three daughters of Louis V each had her own colour with the fleur-de-lis in the centre of each cover — Adelaide red , Victoire olive green and Sophie citron . |
| 9 | I made a note of it on the pad . ’ |
| 10 | In addition , the deal covering the Walter-Guillaume donation ( handled by Jacques Walter after his father 's accidental death ) implied that the international nature of his own private collection — his right to dispose of it on the international market in other words — should be respected and the French State show itself ‘ worthy ’ of the gift . |
| 11 | Interestingly , as we went to press , Intel stock had spiked 15 points in three days , some of it on the strength of a strong buy recommendation from Merrill Lynch , whose analysis underscored the strong demand for Pentiums . |
| 12 | In that case , the dispute arose out of a DTI investigation into a suspected ‘ mole ’ , working at either the Office of Fair Trading or the Monopolies and Mergers Commission , who passed on price sensitive information to others who then dealt on the basis of it on the Stock Exchange . |
| 13 | Much of this music has no other recording — and none of it on the harp , and King plays it with rare strength , sensitivity and the conviction of one who is also inventing it as the same time — and is delighted by his own trouvailles . |
| 14 | Mind you , us kids often used to sneakily eat a bit of it on the way home — happy days ! |
| 15 | In the autumn , the sweeping tracts of it on the lower , treeless hillsides are the colour of rust , and it is then that it is scythed down , to provide bedding for the animals during the winter and , once suitably impregnated , fertilizer for the fields the following spring — in a neat ecological cycle . |
| 16 | ‘ Yeah , I just heard some of it on the radio . |
| 17 | If she did any work around the place , there was no evidence of it on the desk . |
| 18 | And sir the other strand which we 've heard a good deal about has been the nature of the vegetative screen which occurs between D thirty nine and D forty on the one hand , and land to the north of it on the other . |
| 19 | Snowing patiently , for there was much of it on the ground , many snowdrops to be restored like white souls to the heavens . |
| 20 | Even on my return through the ward , past ulcer and oedema , past sleepwalker and sleeptalker , I could feel the hungry suck of it on the soles of my black boots . |
| 21 | Because Times is a fairly heavy face , that is , it looks very dark when there 's a lot of it on the page , we 'll lighten it a little by having more space between the lines so the leading or inter-line spacing will be set to 11pt . |
| 22 | Did you catch any of it on the local telly ? ’ |
| 23 | He probably paid a month 's wages for tonight and look , he wasted most of it on the mattress . |
| 24 | I 've felt for sometime we needed to put more pressure on Welsh Office ministers who I feel are having a pretty easy time of it on the environmental front . |
| 25 | There was no sign of it on the surface — the track was probably carried over it on sleepers , long embedded in the mud of years — and the entrance to the drain was completely hidden by long grass . |
| 26 | Joshua opened a bottle of House Champagne and set a glass of it on the edge . |
| 27 | Splashes of it had hit the wall behind the basin and there were three oval blots of it on the floor . |
| 28 | ‘ Loads of it on the desk , ’ said Nooty . |
| 29 | You know , if you ca n't sell it at home , you know , you get rid of it on the world market . |
| 30 | it was , I just caught the tail end of it on the news , on the |