Example sentences of "on it [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He picked her up with exquisite gentleness , kissed her cheeks , laid her gently on the bed , and lay down on it beside her , his hands pulling her body close to his . |
| 2 | piled on it beside it . |
| 3 | But the good-night was not as definite as it sounded and Fritz , cowed though he was , knew it and walked with Erika to her bus-stop and waited with her in the cold until the bus did trundle along , and even then he made an attempt to get on it with her , a ploy which , with a deft use of her elbow , Erika foiled , leaving him standing at the bus-stop ; a lonely rejected youth , bowed as with the sorrows of all the world — and yet irresistibly comic . |
| 4 | Who else was in on it with him ? ’ |
| 5 | You elected to become the mistress of a poverty-stricken lecturer of nonsense ; you have made your bed ; lie on it with him , as you have chosen to do . ’ |
| 6 | When we got picked up and he was on it with me then . |
| 7 | He pulled out the pouffe and sat on it with them propped on his knees . |
| 8 | She banged on it with her free hand and it was opened by Higgins . |
| 9 | Meanwhile , she got a grip on it with her mind , and concentrated . |
| 10 | Miss Merchiston went to the last door , thumped twice on it with her clenched fist as if by such violence she announced her coming , and threw it wide so that it bounced off the wall with a crash . |
| 11 | She did n't exactly throw herself against the door , but she began to beat on it with her fists . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Hunting dogs in Africa and wolves in North America also hunt in teams , snapping at the heels of an antelope or a moose , one taking over from the other until their victim is so exhausted that they can get a grip on it with their teeth and pull it down . |
| 14 | And he went on gazing out of the window , drawing on it with his finger until Mrs Hollins came out and rapped on the glass . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | And though it had struck her as a slightly odd remark for a man on the brink of marriage to make , she most probably would n't have thought any more about it if he had responded to the way she had light-heartedly picked up on it with his usual unassailable self-assurance . |
| 17 | The Chinese rug in the centre of the hall showed no blemish — until he walked on it with his muddy brogues . |
| 18 | The software is being developed by the US company General Instruments , which is working flat out on it at its plant in San Diego , California . |
| 19 | Do n't be tempted to look on it as anything permanent . ’ |
| 20 | Hence the growth of state power meant the enslavement of individuals who became totally dependent on it for everything and who , as individuals , no longer possessed the personal responsibility for any but the most trivial and harmless of their actions : |
| 21 | The voluntary sector is a large employer of ACE schemes and now relies heavily on it for its funding . |
| 22 | Both the New Criticism and Scrutiny were products of the modernist literary revolution , and drew on it for their methods and their assumptions . |
| 23 | However , most of his tours are accompanied by freelance lecturers , though never those who rely on it for their livelihood , who , he thinks , get stale . |
| 24 | ( 1 ) Official figures indicate that one in five of southern Italians and a quarter of Greeks and Portuguese work in agriculture , although the numbers significantly dependent on it for their livelihood must be considerably higher . |
| 25 | Tourism does bring economic benefits to rural areas , but it is usually considered to be a mixed blessing , even by those who depend on it for their living . |
| 26 | He says in Mexico for instance there are communities who depend on it for their livelihood and who benefit from the sale of the wood . |
| 27 | The motor industry is a key measure of our economic performance , and hundreds of thousands depend on it for their livliehoods . |
| 28 | Bridhe , put a black fringe on it for me . ’ |
| 29 | Just , just put a bit of salt on it for me . |
| 30 | Phil is making notes on it for his Man programme . |