Example sentences of "on it the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I kept my eyes on it the whole time , he wrote . |
| 2 | Mark on it the width of plank from which the brackets will be cut . |
| 3 | You must also note on it the NI contributions and tax details each time an employee gets paid . |
| 4 | ‘ Looking back on it the plan could n't have been simpler but we must have rehearsed it forty times . |
| 5 | When I walk on it the whole thing starts to move and I am soon covered in the grey dust I am stirring up ; it fills my nostrils and triggers a memory that links the smell with rock climbing . |
| 6 | The rub is the general conviction , based on the man 's record , that the same pragmatism , unencumbered by ideology or ethics , that leads him to sign an agreement one day will lead him to renege or cheat on it the next . |
| 7 | She had reasoned that as she had already mounted the horse and walked around on it the previous day , that this time it would be easy . |
| 8 | The more I think on it the more I see that this cruel sentence may yet be turned to advantage and may be God 's way of effecting what I most desire and have been unable to bring about . |
| 9 | You must not touch this curtain with your hand , but must lay on it the milk-white feather which the hen will give you , and the curtain will be opened silently , by unseen hands , and the doors beyond it will lie open , and you may come into the hall where you shall find what you shall find . ’ |
| 10 | The fact that it is transcendent confers on it the boon that its enduring is not dependent on appearances but on mental factors . |
| 11 | Once the weight of the rope was on it the hook stayed firmly in place . |
| 12 | Some people prefer not to talk or to think about their tinnitus as they find that the more they concentrate on it the worse it becomes . |
| 13 | To join them send an SAE — indicating on it the number of stickers required — to Lock It ! |
| 14 | Cut a new piece of timber , and mark on it the shape of piece required . |
| 15 | ‘ I was so impressed I gave her a tape with a backing track on it the band had done , and asked her if she wanted to do some work on it . |
| 16 | Not a day went by but she saw Anthony 's face , and superimposed on it the face of Stavros , smirking slightly as he had been in the cemetery . |
| 17 | the more I worked on it the more it began to evolve into another kind of idea and the more removed it became from my initial study which had so much freedom and energy , so I stopped . |
| 18 | I tried to get her to send me a memo with a pound sign on it the day after any night she had masturbated thinking about Lee , but she never did . |
| 19 | And that was the only time that I 've fired a rifle cos , well actually I went got , rose to a corporal I was a corporal when they finished and erm I was in er made cor lance corporal and then I was er with a heavy Vickers machine gun , that 's the one with the has water cooled casing on it the big heavy one you see , and I was with that , that team . |
| 20 | ‘ If we do n't step on it the inn will have closed for the afternoon , and we wo n't get a glass of the urine of Culex pipiens . |
| 21 | There was another blackboard on the wall and on it the legend : ‘ Arrived on time . |
| 22 | That is where I spilled vodka on it the day I wore it for the first time . ’ |
| 23 | She was convinced something was moving about in there , though when she shone a light on it the little thing disappeared down the hole . |
| 24 | She was here on a mission , and the sooner she set out on it the better ! |
| 25 | And what this means is that from now on the cla lectures will trail the classes , which , which does n't matter and is actually quite er a good thing in the sense that what will happen from now on is that we 'll first do a topic in the class and then I will give the lecture on it the week after , or possibly even two weeks after , which is okay because it means that then in the lecture I can concentrate on filling in the gaps , straightening out the misunderstandings and generally adding to what we did in the class , rather than leading as it were as I have up until now . |
| 26 | Chiang happens to have under her pillow a large red flag , and the five women embroider on it the five stars of the republic , meanwhile singing a song of praise . |
| 27 | but er , a lot of them got on the twelve six , you goes the twelve thirty one any way we waved to her when she got on it the coach you see was full at Bart Green , you got , at Redditch |
| 28 | watched a documentary on it the other night and he said even by kicking someone now , if you do n't have n't , is n't an accident it 's like kissing someone you |
| 29 | No matter what Bob says or Harry or any other member of the Conservative group , and I accept that they 've always been consistent on it the same as the Labour group has always been consistently against the merger I accept that they 've been consistently in favour of a total merger . |