Example sentences of "on it [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've got some bollocks on it about some girl in my class called Karen wanking or something and all sorts of other shit and like |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | She moved the chair and leaned on it with one hand . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 " . |
| 6 | For this reason , the seventeenth century looked on it with varying degrees of embarrassed caution and suspicion . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | But it was one thing to tell myself that and another to act on it with any conviction . |
| 9 | Ask a friend to observe your performance and to report to you on it with ruthless candour . |
| 10 | Yesterday they played on it with delirious joy . |
| 11 | And we were not too keen on it at that time but had been all right . |
| 12 | I 'd want to know how much the people who are working on it at all stages are paid , if they 're paid a living wage . |
| 13 | She 's only limping on it at certain times cos she came rushing into my bedroom last night and you were n't limping then ! |
| 14 | However , as the table has to be moved out of the way whenever the patient gets up , it should not be too heavy , or have too many items on it at one time . |
| 15 | In the present case , the defendant was well aware that the council had acquired the plot in order to construct a road on it at some time in the future and meantime had no present use for the land . |
| 16 | So if we can be quite clear in our minds from now , you might get questions on it tomorrow , you might get questions on it at some point in the future during the week , but they inevitably come at some point . |
| 17 | I have dwelt on it at some length because I believe the opposite to be the case . |
| 18 | Although I do not wish to dwell on it at this stage I feel I should say something regarding my understanding of Christianity . |
| 19 | And since it is a counter motion , I will take it at the very end with any other counter motions , and therefore I am not asking the convenor to reply to it because if we had a vote on it at this stage , we 'd either be we , we would therefore be sealing completely this deliverance number four as it stands . |
| 20 | Those who would wish to take it in parts please show those against taking it in parts this evening we will vote on it as one amendment in that case . |
| 21 | Gandhi indeed could count on the British conscience for his personal safety , but he could never count on it for political concessions — and it is clear that at some level he understood this . |
| 22 | This system is still available today but no new work has been attempted on it for 18 months . |
| 23 | Len , as he was known to his legion of friends , was elected to Selkirk Town Council in 1956 and served on it for 18 years , as well as on the then county council for 14 years . |
| 24 | Around 1920 when Eliot , with anthropological ideas in the forefront of his mind , had attacked Gilbert Murray 's translations of Euripides , Pound tried to persuade him to translate Aeschylus ' Agamemnon , but Eliot ‘ sat on it for eight months or some longer period ’ . |
| 25 | George made a long thinking , grumbling noise , then said , mostly to himself : ‘ The paperwork must have been good … if they were living on it for eighteen months … they were n't escaped prisoners of war trying to reach Switzerland on a hand-copied Fremdenpass … |
| 26 | The discovery of more stable chemicals ( Table 3 ) — the true residual insecticides — which were sprayed on to the walls and roofs of dwellings and left a deposit that was lethal to mosquitoes resting on it for many weeks and even months , produced the ideal control that did not demand an impossibly high efficiency . |
| 27 | The keys of old harpsichords are indeed often seen to be hollowed ; however , what this suggests is not that Handel had been assiduously practising on it for many years , but rather that ( being at least loo years old when Hawkins saw it ) it had never had the keys replated. 19th-century scholars were intrigued by this tale , and more than a century after Handel 's death embarked on the quest to rediscover the instrument . |
| 28 | Black-leaved ilexes grew in the churchyard and a brassy laburnum had flowers on it for one week out of the year . |
| 29 | This bloke , you know , had been working on it for fifty years nonstop and |
| 30 | Course he 's been on it for six weeks . |