Example sentences of "on it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On it lay the Vietnamese manservant , moaning quietly and holding a surgical dressing to his thigh . |
| 2 | On it lay the silky brown square of a caramel . |
| 3 | On it lay a cellophaned wallet of Guyland press handouts — this was where I 'd scribbled his number . |
| 4 | On it lay her attempt at drawing the mice . |
| 5 | On it lay the remnants of bandages , the scissors and a tin of basilicum powder , lit by another candelabrum . |
| 6 | For on it lay the prickly pears he had picked for her earlier , now denuded of their spikes and cut into quarters . |
| 7 | Then on it went inexorably for another sixty-five minutes … |
| 8 | On and on it went . |
| 9 | On and on it went . |
| 10 | ‘ Andy Gould , ’ I say , because — apart from everything else — Andy stayed with me during the summer , round about the time the card with my writing on it went missing . |
| 11 | And on it went . |
| 12 | And on it went . |
| 13 | We 're relying on it to replace them . |
| 14 | And in that case the epistemological asymmetry which depends on it falls to the ground . |
| 15 | He started walking away and he 's still walking kind of fast , so I grabbed his sweater from the back and pulled on it to slow him down . |
| 16 | To relieve the monotony of the black head , yellow sighting lines had been painted on it to enable the golfer to line up his putt on the ‘ sweet spot ’ — the dead centre of the putter head . |
| 17 | Even the winter times on it come and have a look . |
| 18 | The promotions business is going through a rocky time , and the Hoover jinx has now hit the Coca Cola Co in the UK , the Guardian reports : customer services at the company 's British headquarters are besieged with callers believing they have won Sega Enterprises Ltd games machines because one batch of bottles appears to make every purchaser a winner ; any bottle cap with the letter M , G or B printed on it wins a Sega prize , but the problem batch have all three letters inside the cap as part of a code to identify consignments , and the company is having to spend thousands of pounds on advertising to make it quite clear that its only caps with only one of the letters that win , and that all three are no good . |
| 19 | And he walking round with these shorts on from last night , and his like , dirty T shirt and this big plaster with nancy boy written on it trying to get home . |
| 20 | A fine big one , of oak , with a carved band on it to say ‘ Dominus mecum , dominus sum ’ . ’ |
| 21 | My nose was bigger than most people 's , and being punched on it made me cry with pain . |
| 22 | It is impressed with the amount of investment Intel proposes putting into Pentium , saying that when the chip reaches the height of its production Intel will have spent $5,000m on it compared with $100m on the 80386 and $1,000m on the 80486 . |
| 23 | It is impressed with the amount of investment Intel proposes putting into Pentium saying that when the chip reaches the height of its production Intel will have spent $5bn on it compared to $100m on the 80386 and $1bn on the 80486 . |
| 24 | It clunks into position and I sit on it to take off my shoes . |
| 25 | A palace revolution on It saw ‘ co-ordination ’ put in the hands of John Hopkins with ‘ words ’ the province of Peter Stansill , Dave Robins , and Madeleine Neeson . |
| 26 | It was absolutely no good just giving them a sketch and expecting them to expand on it using their own initiative . |
| 27 | Or , if the cracker is to be a gift for someone , write the person 's name on it using a metallic pen ( Fig 3 ) . |
| 28 | A large banner with ‘ Happy Birthday William ’ on it hung above and across the range . |
| 29 | Tens of millions of people take part in its ceremonies from time to time , or have neighbours who do , and many of them rely on it to uphold and promote traditional English values . |
| 30 | But once it catches on it gets dissipated , and people start thinking ‘ in order to be angry , you have to be a child ’ . |