Example sentences of "on it [conj] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Next in importance would come the discovery in 1964 of the cosmic background itself , by two scientists from the US Bell Labs , Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson , who stumbled on it while looking for ways of eliminating noise in radio receivers . |
| 2 | Her forehead had small beads of sweat on it that glistened in the lamp light . |
| 3 | There is the sense here that reason is more than the sum of its parts , and that the serious pursuit of truth can , over time , generate a way of looking at the world and an approach to forming judgements on it that stands over and above any particular truths that may be assimilated on the way . |
| 4 | It 's got instant character , whereas a new guitar has n't had the years of beating on it and fiddling with to give it the character . |
| 5 | It had all trees on it and looked as if it had been made for picnics . |
| 6 | Leave the haggling over the price to your agent and take his advice on the final choice of buyer , who should be well advanced in his own sale ; but do not be in any hurry to settle the matter without at least sleeping on it and allowing for second thoughts all round . |
| 7 | See I , I personally in , in the past I would 've jumped on it and gone for it . |
| 8 | If anyone has mislaid their gift envelope , please use an ordinary one and just put your name and Birthday Scheme on it and place in the offering bag . |
| 9 | Although it is now possible to use a system of notation , choreographers still prefer to create directly on the human material , working on it and relying on the dancers ' own memories to repeat what has been designed on and for them . |
| 10 | The City and the County Councils have looked very seriously at the erm traffic study that the Oxford Preservation Trust commissioned , and they are working on it and working on ways of implementing it within the City centre . |
| 11 | The Aldershot method erm because it showing you how you broke that subject down allows you to erm introduce it expand on it and summarise at the end . |
| 12 | I mean I thought you 'd be able to click onto move and hit F one say , and that 'd give you a help screen saying to move something , click on it and move to where you want . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'll put a plaster on it and forget about it . ’ |