Example sentences of "and on it " in BNC.

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1 The screen replaces the car windscreen , and on it is shown a road scene that has been recorded on video tape , and transferred to disk .
2 On and on it dragged .
3 THERE was a small piece of spare ground on the other side of the hedge at the end of our garden , and on it , newly arrived , a caravan .
4 And on it goes , a chorus from the asylum , a jumble sale of indignation .
5 It had been presented to him by the City of Paris and on it were traced the lines of the new streets and boulevards which Napoleon III had worked out in conjunction with Baron Haussmann .
6 A bronze fountain of 1630 now stands in front of the sala terrena and on it is a copy of a Venus by B. Würzelbauer , cast in 1599 .
7 And on it goes . )
8 The picture of the young couple came into her mind again ; and on it she thought : there must be a different way of life .
9 Miss Honey found a tray and on it she put two mugs , the teapot , the half bottle of milk and a plate with the two slices of bread .
10 On and on it went .
11 On and on it goes and goes on still .
12 On and on it runs , ranging from staccato to legato , and becoming fortissimo when anybody is about to leave the house .
13 He set aside an area of one hundred and nine acres to the east of the original Saxon village ( called Old Town to this day ) and on it laid out a regular plan of streets — three running parallel with the river and three others crossing them at right angles .
14 On and on it went .
15 Make a copy of the last graph and on it plot the sales of Mr Gordon Mr Richard 's rival for the same week .
16 And on it would go , the dissections , the speculations , the dismantling of Jacob 's work .
17 There the air rises hotly and on it an eagle may soar further south to where Slorne 's kind live , and where my kind come from too . ’
18 There was a great lake and on it were flamingos like the ones you see every day on Three Island Pond .
19 It is a low rising hill above the waters of a loch and on it centre powers that only eagles of peace and truth can fully feel
20 Her yellow hair was cut very short , and on it , like a cake frill , perched a nurse 's cap , tied beneath the square jaw .
21 The ground is white , and on it women 's skin is outlined in red , men 's and boys ' in black filled in with a pinkish colour , the same distinction as on the Thermon metopes ( above , p. 13 ) , and clothes are in flat washes of clear , bright red and blue .
22 There was another blackboard on the wall and on it the legend : ‘ Arrived on time .
23 The big pine table in the middle of the floor had been set for dinner , and on it stood a bottle of cheap wine from the village store .
24 On and on it flowed past her , indifferent to her and her suitcase .
25 And on it went .
26 And on it goes , possibility after possibility .
27 She gave a separate sheet of paper to each ship , and on it , in neat , small writing , she had listed every voyage , with any intermediate ports of call , over the past twelve months .
28 And on it went .
29 In the middle of the hut was another large flat stone which was used as a table , and on it was the bag the boy had been carrying .
30 The litter on the kitchen table had been pushed back to leave a clear corner on which a cloth , clean but creased , had been laid , and on it were two unmatching plates and two cups which bore no relation in design or size , to their saucers .
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