Example sentences of "[vb past] it [adv] on [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Badoglio lost no time in advancing on the capital , Addis Ababa — from which the Emperor , Haile Selassie , had already fled to Britain — and entered it triumphantly on 5 May 1936 . |
| 2 | Its one and only race was 1966 British Grand Prix where Trevor Taylor lined it up on 18th place on the grid and retired during the very first lap . |
| 3 | We wanted to check the accuracy of an intelligence test for horses , so we tried it out on six horses of known intelligence : three stallions and three mares . |
| 4 | I noticed it especially on one occasion when I was beset with problems which had made me very unhappy . |
| 5 | I noticed it yesterday on that side . |
| 6 | They showed it live on that German satellite channel . |
| 7 | Blonde Joanne had to grin and bear it when actor boyfriend Tony Scannell , who stars as Ted in The Bill , whooped it up on one of his fun nights at Stringfellows in London . |
| 8 | Though the conditions made it nigh on impossible to tell anyone apart anyway . |
| 9 | I never got it off on that Gary Kibbett stuff . |
| 10 | Confronted with this reality , O'Neill conceded the principle of ‘ one man , one vote ’ , and the full parliamentary party voted it in on 22 April . |
| 11 | He had a good head for numbers , and recited it all the way down St Martin 's Lane and into Monmouth Street ; then he went in a shop for a coffee and wrote it down on one of the paper napkins . |
| 12 | it 's all I said no it 's not I said I paid me first er payment I said wrote it down on one of those papers |
| 13 | He set it down on one of the small tables , then handed her a paper napkin , a spoon and a fork before giving her one of the bowls . |