Example sentences of "[vb past] on it " in BNC.
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| 1 | A pulse of pressure from behind threw them against the factor , he turned and jumped for the door , beat on it , it opened abruptly , and he fell inside . |
| 2 | Three black youths with huge , multicoloured knitted caps pulled over their dreadlocks like tea-cosies lean against the plateglass window of the shopping-precinct cafe , drumming a reggae beat on it with their finger-tips until shooed away by the manageress . |
| 3 | I probably , I probably knelt on it when I was getting the computer . |
| 4 | I knelt on it if you remember . |
| 5 | Knelt on it . |
| 6 | It might have been the pirate 's there was a three-breasted mermaid tattooed on it — and it only just fit her shoulder . |
| 7 | She dwelt on it remarkably little , she never mentioned it to Oliver and he never said anything to her . |
| 8 | Sara herself never dwelt on it . |
| 9 | Both the New Criticism and Scrutiny were products of the modernist literary revolution , and drew on it for their methods and their assumptions . |
| 10 | ’ He paused to light his Gauloise , and drew on it deeply , looking appraisingly at his brother . |
| 11 | I lit up a Rothmans as I walked jerkily over the park , shivering , the cigarette rushed to my head and I felt better as I drew on it strongly , cupping the end in the palm of my grubby hand . |
| 12 | Joey lit the joint and drew on it deeply , passing it to Lizzy . |
| 13 | The joint that Joey had rolled was passed to her and she drew on it gratefully . |
| 14 | He drew on it , then took it out of his mouth and nipped the end off before dropping it on the floor . |
| 15 | ‘ I believe , ’ said the commissioner who reported on it to the Health of Towns Commission in 1845 , |
| 16 | I hated it when I first moved on it . |
| 17 | Other erupted on it , while hostile lances of light sought the gaping wounds those explosions had opened … |
| 18 | Placing her thumb in her mouth , she sucked on it furiously for a few seconds before settling down once more into a deep sleep . |
| 19 | Jezrael felt hemmed in ; her snow-suit felt heavy , the air-bottle on her bicep dragging at her as she sucked on it . |
| 20 | He concentrated on it because he loved it , and he thereby proved once more his extreme simplicity of character . |
| 21 | I think I concentrated on it only because you got married . |
| 22 | Campbell was little concerned with the lives of ordinary seamen ; nor did he reflect the alarm which many of his contemporaries felt about the sea and the behaviour of those who sailed on it . |
| 23 | Size in peas , in the form Mendel experimented on it , was an exceptional trait ; most traits , particularly behavioural ones , do not come in simple discrete pairs . |
| 24 | She banged on it with her free hand and it was opened by Higgins . |
| 25 | The door was shut and he banged on it with his knuckles two or three times before he heard a movement inside and the door opened . |
| 26 | The door was bolted but Wycliffe banged on it and was admitted by a uniformed policeman . |
| 27 | Top scorer with twelve enquiries , for no immediately apparent reason , was BP Research , although Martin Rylance who advised on it said that the company covered a huge variety of disciplines . |
| 28 | She tasted it and nibbled on it , and plunged into it , until a hand took her chin and their mouths once again met . |
| 29 | The medicine bottles were cleared away , the windows flung open , the multitude of little cushions and shawls packed carefully into an old ball dress trunk with a high-domed lid and E. B. painted on it , in white . |
| 30 | Now Will brought down an old van er which was scrap it was quite a good body I mean and he painted on it , We 're still open , er something like , Despite Transport and General Workers ' Union picketing we are fully open , and he plonked this van with no wheels on it just the body right th in the entrance of th on his own ground naturally er right in front of the pickets which was like you know tantalizing . |