Example sentences of "on it [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On a chair in the scullery in his cardigan and his cap and his bad leg stuck out to one side , and his tins of paint on newspapers all around , and a big panel of wood propped up against the wall with a picture on it of a battleship in a stormy sea . |
| 2 | Home again , he shot off an urgent request to Theo for some Ingres paper that was not blindingly white — the whiteness hampered him — and stout enough to withstand his attacks on it with a reed pen . |
| 3 | The magazine was lying open at the property advertisements , among which was a photograph of a lawn , and a cedar tree on it with a shadow , and a squarish house in the background to show the purpose of the lawn . |
| 4 | Saver Plus — the ideal combination if you are looking to make the most of your surplus cash but may need to call on it at a moment 's notice . |
| 5 | I look on it as a work of God . |
| 6 | Many people these days have a rather negative concept of health in that they tend to look on it as a state in which one does not feel ill or has no pain — in other words , a state of absence of illness . |
| 7 | So if four of us were to work on it as a group , |
| 8 | It is almost too virtuous and optimistic to believe , but the Fifties readers seized on it as a model . |
| 9 | We had only known Sinar Surya as a lumpish extension of the land — as dependent on it as a baby is on its mother ; now she had come of age as she surged south to a thrilling new rhythm , new smells and new sensations . |
| 10 | If supplementary benefit is an inducement to strike activity , then knowledge of how the system operates and reliance on it as a source of livelihood must enter into workers ' plans before embarking on strikes . |
| 11 | I 'd love to see them manage on it for a year |
| 12 | ‘ I 've had my eye on it for a while , but as an accountant I like to think I 'm getting a bargain , ’ says Mark . |
| 13 | After playing happily on it for a while we romped back to our sleeping bags and a meal , excited at the prospect of getting to grips next morning with the classic grade V , Sticil Face . |
| 14 | Even without directly challenging an idea , all one has to do is sit on it for a while , put it in his or her pocket , not respond , find other projects more important — and the change effort will be stalled . |
| 15 | Jean pondered on it for a day while we held our breath . |
| 16 | Thankfully he landed on it for a moment , moving his body back and forth to keep balance with the stress of the wind and peering about him . |
| 17 | Borrowing the money , let's , I mean , I do n't know , fifty thousand , let's say , put a figure on it for a moment . |
| 18 | After a month of storage in a tank or lagoon , the slurry should be safe enough for spreading — although cattle should not graze on it for a month . |
| 19 | However , there is nothing in Law which prevents a player dropping the ball and then falling on it for a score . |
| 20 | No that 's where it went a bit wobbly so I made a hook on it for a carriage . |
| 21 | It is clear that on the Conservative side , before defeat in the 1964 General Election , Edward Boyle was attracted to a binary solution and in March of that year put a paper on it to a Cabinet committee . |
| 22 | This is a featureless big plateau , and I arrived on it in a blizzard . |
| 23 | You 're gon na get some you 're gon na get some on it in a minute too if you do n't up . |
| 24 | This was a parting gift but I dropped mine and the bloody dogs were on it in a flash , whilst Benjamin , kind as ever , gave his to the page who served us . |
| 25 | If we can persuade birds to come and perch on it in a row fairly close together we have obviously made it much easier to see the wire . |
| 26 | You get wee hooks and you hang them up and they stick there right , and just put your cups on it in a row and it gives you more room on the table . |
| 27 | But the Christian Democrats criticised this and the French people , called to give their view on it in a referendum , rejected the document . |
| 28 | I misunderstood the cause of his mood and remarked on it in a letter . |
| 29 | The history of ModE /a/ is a traditional bone of contention , and views have been expressed on it by a gallery of famous names from Henry Sweet onward ( for a review , see Lass , 1976 ) . |
| 30 | How long do they think the countryside will remain clean after they descend on it like a swarm of locusts with their cars , motorbikes and stereos ? |