Example sentences of "on it [coord] [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The HMI document The Curriculum from 5 to 16 suggests that ‘ all that pupils learn should be practical , and therefore relevant , in ways which enable them to build on it or use it for their own purposes in everyday life ’ . |
| 2 | An adult , by itself , will be hard-pressed to repel a determined attack on its young , but in a massed colony , outraged parents join together and surround an intruder in a cloud , shrieking angrily , diving on it and harrying it in a continuous attack . |
| 3 | Young children often play with just one block at a time ; they may stand on it , sit on it and use it in their imaginative play as a parcel , steering wheel or tool . |
| 4 | But one tried to put a good face on it and keep them to oneself . |
| 5 | I could roll this through the mud , spit on it and put it through dog 's dirtisisism and most people would still say yes please . |
| 6 | He took out the torn fragment with ‘ BORVEL NEM AKT printed on it and showed it to Vic . |
| 7 | Luckily his jacket had caught on it and saved him from falling . |
| 8 | She hid the cutting in the cocktail cabinet in the prop-room — if she took it home Uncle Vernon might get his hands on it and embarrass her by reading it out to the commercial travellers . |