Example sentences of "it [vb past] [adv prt] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did n't try the grilled Greek halloumi cheese with pitta bread , but as it passed by on the way to another table I rather wished I had . |
| 2 | It shuttled around on the picture . |
| 3 | ‘ It came up on the PA tapes an hour ago . |
| 4 | It came up on the wall like that and had a big wooden block fastened to the wall that block |
| 5 | ‘ It was about 8.30am and I was just getting dressed when it came over on the news , ’ said Mr Tyson , a former clerk of works at Harrow council , London . |
| 6 | It came off on the playing field and so there was no way I could find the little screw . |
| 7 | It crunched round on the gravel in front of the house then sped off through the gates scattering white stones . |
| 8 | Far better to leave it opened out on the mattress to air . |
| 9 | and cos I just left it screwed up on the floor last night and then well I walked out the door without my skirt . |
| 10 | This " trusted friend " ( until it turned round on the sufferer : there is a Chinese saying " First man takes drink , then drink takes drink , then drink takes man " ) was the only known method of suppressing unpleasant feelings and , although maybe no longer trusted , is nonetheless sadly missed . |
| 11 | A helicopter was sent for him and shortly afterwards it clattered down on the tarmac , Bakhtiar , a thin , nervous but very elegant man who looked like a French aristocrat , with a trim moustache and superbly cut clothes , entered the pavilion and bowed before the king . |
| 12 | She was about to reach for her drink when she caught sight of the car out of the corner of her eye as it pulled up on the opposite side of the road — a white BMW , identical to the one her uncle had . |
| 13 | Many other languages have been heard in Kiev since it grew up on the banks of the river Dnieper , a waypoint on the waterborne merchant route between Viking Scandinavia and ancient Byzantium . |
| 14 | GUINNESS HAS PULLED OUT ALL THE technological stops in its latest marketing drive — and employees were among the first to see the imaginative Taste Sensation before it went out on the road . |
| 15 | Oxford Regional Health Authority explained why it went back on the original decision saying , ’ We understood that the law said quite clearly the health authority could not provide treatment in private homes . |
| 16 | The whole business here at Miss Bedwelty 's seemed far less daunting than it did out on the industrial estate . |
| 17 | On its return journey at 5.30 pm it ran back on the slow up line and into Loughton siding where there was a raised platform some 60ft long at coach footboard height , for milk churns to be loaded on the daily milk train . |
| 18 | The bird 's darting eye sought his frantically before it glazed ; he thought as it twitched about on the hard dry clods that he might break its neck to bring its death throes to an end . |
| 19 | I want you , I want to make love to you again , ’ he said thickly , tugging her hair from its unruly topknot , so that it spread out on the pillows in a golden cloud , stroking slow , drugging caresses the length of her spread body . |
| 20 | Business Post , the express mail and parcel carrier went to TEC Consultants for advice when it set out on the path of getting its network accredited two years ago . |