Example sentences of "on the [noun] [conj] it had " in BNC.

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31 Then I tipped the leg and the can over until the leg was lying at the same angle on the grass as it had been , behind Blyth .
32 This proposal found support in the work of Lord Kelvin , the pioneer Victorian geophysicist , who attempted to calculate the age of the Earth from its probable rate of cooling on the assumption that it had formed as a molten offshoot of the Sun .
33 Her hand had come down on the spider and it had bitten her .
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