Example sentences of "[vb pp] on it [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | TYNEMOUTH beer festival had a curfew imposed on it last month by local magistrates . |
| 2 | The limelight cast on NT-on-Alpha and the number of adjectives spent on it this week is expected to have a negative , if not fatal impact on the rickety ACE Initiative , whose founders , including Compaq and SCO , are perceived to be abandoning it for greener pastures , despite claims to the contrary . |
| 3 | She had pondered on it all night — that and the image of his laughing eyes and the way his full , firm lips tipped so readily into that wickedly sexy smile . |
| 4 | They 've probably stepped on it enough times . |
| 5 | Like Mary Kingsley she was down-to-earth and when her expedition reached Abu Simbel she was horrified to see that the colossal figure of Rameses II was disfigured by plaster left on it fifty years before by an enthusiastic cast-maker . |
| 6 | This experiment was quickly followed up by others using protein synthesis inhibitors , all essentially leading to the same conclusion — that if protein synthesis was prevented during the period over which an animal was trained , or for up to about an hour subsequently , then although the animal could learn the task , when tested on it some time later — say the next day — it behaved as if it were naïve . |
| 7 | My passport was wet and creased from where I had lain on it all night ; but it was there . |