Example sentences of "on it " in BNC.
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| 1 | He concentrated on it because he loved it , and he thereby proved once more his extreme simplicity of character . |
| 2 | I kept my eyes on it the whole time , he wrote . |
| 3 | Work on it is like a dream , or like thoughts of what a work would be like . |
| 4 | It looks like mine , he said , examining it , but there 's no label on it . |
| 5 | Two years since I set up the glass and started to make marks on it . |
| 6 | I told her she was the first person to see it since I started work on it . |
| 7 | My arbitrary decision to hang up gauze and let draught play on it , but not my decision what the result of that play would be . |
| 8 | When I think about it , he wrote , I find it difficult to remember why I ever embarked on it . |
| 9 | The balloon says it all : lager has less than 50 per cent of the British beer market yet the brewers spend two-thirds of their advertising money on it . |
| 10 | The actual machine is replaceable , as are the programs which run on it — but your data is unique and can not simply be replaced by the local computer shop . |
| 11 | Miss Pinkney 's was a chocolate layer cake with cherries , angelica leaves , and pink sugar roses on it . |
| 12 | They 'd been in it only a year , but Mrs Yardley had lavished as much effort on it as she had on her beautiful cake . |
| 13 | Poison was traditionally a ‘ woman 's weapon ’ — but would a woman bake a cake for a competition and then put poison on it ? |
| 14 | All she had to do was look at the champagne the way she looked at me and you 'd be able to skate on it . |
| 15 | ‘ Be pretty funny if a gardener 's ladder did n't have earth on it , ’ commented Cook . |
| 16 | ‘ But even if you knew beforehand who was going to get — say — the fifth plate , how could you put poison on it and not on the other plates ? ’ |
| 17 | ‘ They think it 's a computer error — but they 're still checking on it . ’ |
| 18 | I 'll sleep on it tonight and tomorrow we 'll go all out to get you somewhere . |
| 19 | Avoid working clay soil in wet weather , as standing on it will cause compaction . |
| 20 | From that time on it was easier to spot . |
| 21 | The carrot will attract any wireworm around , which can be lifted out as they munch on it ( Harry says he finds this particularly useful for melon beds ) . |
| 22 | It should meet BS 5446 Part 1 or it should have the Kitemark on it . |
| 23 | In such a situation it is therefore all the more necessary to recognize the unique place the ethnographer holds and to capitalize on it . |
| 24 | Jay swore she would behave herself , awkward in Lucy 's tidy living room , her table between them had a map of the world on it . |
| 25 | The scourging voice always did this , whatever golden kernel of hope she treasured , so scared of losing it , it was almost a secret even to herself … the voice seized it , shredded it , pissed on it , trampled it . |
| 26 | This , of course , is a generalisation ; you can withdraw a powerful kick where the opponent has impaled himself on it , because in this instance recoil gives you the required stability . |
| 27 | The ground quaked as they walked on it . |
| 28 | A pulse of pressure from behind threw them against the factor , he turned and jumped for the door , beat on it , it opened abruptly , and he fell inside . |
| 29 | ‘ And take a vote on it ? ’ |
| 30 | With a damp , rotten house on it ! ’ |