Example sentences of "it [vb past] on a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Finally it fixed on a black sword thrust straight through the branch above Rincewind 's head . |
| 2 | It happened on a contra-flow system where there are roadworks . |
| 3 | 2 Make a hay infusion ( Chapter 5 ) and leave it uncovered on a shady window-sill for several weeks , topping it up with cooled , boiled water when necessary . |
| 4 | In the beginning the gods created the world with everything in it organized on a permanent pattern . |
| 5 | Whilst there are undoubted cultural factors acting on the latency phenomenon , as Freud himself recognized , he nevertheless maintained that it rested on a biological , innate foundation . |
| 6 | It differed in only two respects , that the turntable was a much narrower arrangement than the Wolverton one , and that when in the uncoupled position , it rested on a single support carried on two small wheels . |
| 7 | It embarked on a protectionist policy and in return for the grant of a tariff to an industry , demanded that its major producers should reorganize themselves . |
| 8 | For example , what would the courts do if Party A obtaining 40 per cent of the vote gained 60 per cent of the seats in the legislature because the remaining 60 per cent of the vote was split between three other parties , and then it embarked on a legislative programme which was discriminatory , anti-libertarian and anti-democratic ? |
| 9 | This is believed to be the first time that an attempt has been made to compile a complete statistical record of Soviet economic development assistance to the less developed countries since it started on a formal basis in 1954 ; by 1983 such assistance had gone to a total of 57 countries . |
| 10 | Then it focused on a wide plastic tray by Masklin . |
| 11 | It insisted on a total abstention from not only spirits but beer , the staple drink of the working man . |
| 12 | It fell on a rough table and two stools . |
| 13 | It fell on a crowded school , and when she ran to the site from the High Street she could see some bodies still moving . |
| 14 | But this was this big case was on you know , and it went on A big lawsuit it went on for quite a while . |
| 15 | It lay on a narrow plateau above the fens , the houses strung along the northerly of two converging roads . |
| 16 | His face was smiling and , when you tapped the head , it rocked on a concealed axle so that he seemed to chortle at the absurdity of human antics . |
| 17 | His advocacy of soldiers ' and workers ' councils put him wholly at variance with the Labour movement as it regrouped on a parliamentary socialist programme late in 1917 ; but it won him from Lenin and Litvinov the title of first Bolshevik consul for Britain , based in Scotland . |
| 18 | As instructed , the building was largely three-storey , but it stood on a high basement and was dominated by a spiky ventilation tower centrally placed over the War Department . |
| 19 | It stood on a mossy hill , and was environed by an expanse of peat soil and many stacks of the dark-coloured fuel ; and in reaching it , many most forbidding sloughs had to be rounded and jumped over . |
| 20 | It stood on a little round table in front of the muslin-curtained window , and the long green plush sofa against the opposite wall bore the imprint of the length of the girl 's body as though she habitually lay there to watch it . |
| 21 | Unfreedom varied in its nature : it depended on a wide variety of relationships between lord and man . |