Example sentences of "on it with [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The walls and ceilings were all painted the same insipid magnolia and there was rush matting on the floor which trapped bits of food and stuff and hurt if you walked on it with bare feet . |
| 2 | She moved the chair and leaned on it with one hand . |
| 3 | When I was in Jordan in nineteen sixty five studying Arabic , I helped the Save The Children Fund operation there for a few months and this was undoubtedly one of the most enjoyable and interesting short periods of my life and I look back on it with great warmth and affection and as your Royal Highness knows , it happens also that many , many years ago before you were our president , my father occupied your office and I therefore come to this meeting today with some knowledge of the fund 's activities and with great admiration and respect for all the that the fund has achieved . |
| 4 | It is evident that even at seventeen Nietzsche took life and his own views on it with great seriousness ; also , that implicit in those views was an uneasy relationship , here in its first stage , between the inevitable " mere specialism " of the professional classical scholar and a growing " longing for Greece " . |
| 5 | For this reason , the seventeenth century looked on it with varying degrees of embarrassed caution and suspicion . |
| 6 | The mental strain of trying to concentrate on it with small children is considerable , and so is the physical strain of getting it all home . |
| 7 | But it was one thing to tell myself that and another to act on it with any conviction . |
| 8 | Ask a friend to observe your performance and to report to you on it with ruthless candour . |
| 9 | Yesterday they played on it with delirious joy . |