Example sentences of "it and [verb] [pers pn] on the " in BNC.
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1 | It happens that what we 've done is we 've taken it and hung it on the starlight , the magic of starlight — how wonderful it is , how much you can tell from just looking at a star through a telescope and measuring the light that comes out of it , and this takes us into realms of why a star shines ; what do you mean by time when you go back millions of years into the universe lifetime ; what do you mean , why do stars shine with different colours . |
2 | But he had written all over this one — the handwriting was unmistakable — before tearing it and throwing it on the floor . |
3 | However , when I stripped the pump off the block , cleaned it and left it on the workbench , I noticed it had leaked a small amount of oil from a 1.5mm hole located near the back underside of the pump . |
4 | I washed and sterilised it and put it on the hall table , beside the front door . |
5 | Barbie said she 'd rather have a cigarette anyway and gave them back to us , but we could n't break any of them off , so we kept passing this lump backwards and forwards , sucking it and grinding little chunks off it , till we got fed up with it and chucked it on the floor . |
6 | He withdrew it and threw it on the ground . |