Example sentences of "on it [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I recently bought a Series III 1979 lightweight with 19,000 miles on it through the British Army auction here in Hong Kong . |
| 2 | I engineered it and produced it , I did all the bass and everything else on it except the drums . |
| 3 | He sat on it with the two little girls and gave them a big smile . |
| 4 | Additional handles can be added to the second frame simply by clicking on it with the mouse and these are then dragged to re-shape the boundary . |
| 5 | The clerk hammered on it with the pommel of his dagger . |
| 6 | Swales might , at last , have made a wise decision — if he does not go back on it at the first sign of failure . |
| 7 | In Carthage an inveterate schism ( Donatism ) originated when a devout and wealthy lady who treasured the relic of a martyr was rebuked for lavishing kisses on it at the commemoration of the faithful departed at the eucharist ; ‘ she went off in a huff |
| 8 | Poindexter discoursed on it at the hearings , tamping his pipe , with the aid of the sort of brightly-coloured maps usually found in school atlases . |
| 9 | It is Denethor 's insistence on defending this ( III , 89 ) that nearly kills Faramir , and all it does in practice is to obstruct the arrival of the Rohirrim ( III , 111 ) by which time it is already a ‘ ruin' , for all the ‘ labour ’ wasted on it at the start . |
| 10 | ‘ And if I had to put money on it at the moment then I would back Arsenal to win the title . ’ |
| 11 | While Alex Higgins reckons snooker can seriously damage your health , Davis is positively thriving on it at the moment . |
| 12 | He has a singular mind and what is on it at the moment , seems , in our time of stagnation , to speak for a lost England ; and England which for the moment has been buried beneath the slogans of ideology and the jargon of modish materialism and press vendettas and bile . |
| 13 | In fact sir , the County Council 's figures produced in another appendix , ca n't lay my hands on it at the moment , had put this figure in as three thousand six hundred and fifty , but the nub of those two things are , that over that six month period , we 're not only seeing more houses built but we have more consented , and that has n't affected the residue that appears in the rest of these schedules . |
| 14 | The Save Venice trust are working on it at the moment . |
| 15 | And I tried to get on it at the beginning of the week but he told me it was fully booked . |
| 16 | The motorways through Oxfordshire and west Buckinghamshire are quite er busy this evening , the M25 Buckinghamshire section at clockwise junction 15 to 16 the M4/M40 interchange has very heavy slow traffic on it at the moment , it would be best to avoid that section if you can er to avoid fairly major delays this evening . |
| 17 | I 'd worked on it as the slide projectionist One of the reasons we were all so keen on going to the party was that Faustus was a joint production with the local girls school . |
| 18 | Balanced with a diet of the gospels , I would look on it as the church planters ' manual . |
| 19 | Although this involves the use of rather advanced techniques compared with the running of simple transfers and dubs , many enthusiasts believe that this type of editing is essential to the making of ‘ real ’ movies , and look on it as the key creative element in their video activities . |
| 20 | This engine was still in the original crate and had only six hours on it as the result of run-up tests done at the factory in 1944 . |
| 21 | She was determined not to look on it as the ending of a chapter but the making of a new beginning . |
| 22 | Held , allowing the appeal , that , notwithstanding the general principle that a trading or non-trading corporation was entitled to sue in libel to protect so much of its corporate reputation , as distinct from that of its members , as was capable of being damaged by a defamatory statement , a local authority , as a corporate public authority , was not entitled at common law to sue for libel to protect its governing reputation ; that to allow it to do so would impose a substantial and unjustifiable restriction on freedom of expression , since an action for malicious falsehood , or a prosecution for criminal libel , provided the local authority with the sufficient and necessary protection it required in a democratic society ; and that , therefore , the local authority could not maintain its libel action for any words which reflected on it as the county council for Derbyshire in relation to its governmental and administrative functions in that county ( post , pp. 41H , 48F–G , H — 49B , 56B–C , 58A–B , 59F–G , 65B–C , F ) . |
| 23 | Panyi island , where Sapan and Strawberry lived , had only enough room on it for the mosque . |
| 24 | He made a pun on it for the title of his revue Cranks . |
| 25 | Keep it in the quarantine tank , cease medication and keep an eye on it for the next few months . |
| 26 | Later , when the Northern Ireland Office was established , it relied heavily on it for the information on which it based security and political activities . |
| 27 | Mr. Harrison relies on it for the statement in the judgment of Lord Denman C.J. , at p. 683 : ‘ The debtee 's discharge of one joint and several debtor is a discharge of all . ’ |
| 28 | His eye fell on it for the first time as it sprang onto the marble plinth and clutched at the neck of the vase to steady itself . |
| 29 | Sometimes it was important to spoil oneself — Helena had written a piece on it for the last issue of Athene , explaining that when women felt the need for a little luxury they should give in to it , that pampering oneself created an inner glow which proclaimed that this was a Special Woman . |
| 30 | Having allowed a particular expense for some eight years , they are now hassling me on it for the year 1991 . |