Example sentences of "[conj] i [vb base] [adv] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | So good am I that I turn round on the runners to photograph Tony . |
| 2 | But that alone did n't daunt my spirit , so I set off on the second day with a little more trepidation but just as much determination to learn to sail . |
| 3 | They are pulled away impatiently by Bill , so I sit back on the side lines . |
| 4 | She laughs and throws the duvet at me , and I sit back on the sofa-bed as she slips out into the hall . |
| 5 | That district authority and I agree entirely on the future of local government . |
| 6 | The papers are all subjected to these for several Conferences before they 're voted on and we lay great emphasis on achieving consensus on any motion , and I think today on the Palestine/Israel debate , which is obviously a very contentious issue , it went through in about half an hour , very calmly , very peacefully , because a lot of hard work had been done . |
| 7 | If I look back on the people who have led me very well in the past , it was those who were able to create and sustain just such a sense of challenge . |
| 8 | Cos I come in on the Friday after I picked her up from school . |
| 9 | But the dream , ‘ When I come up on the Pools ’ became the Fifties equivalent of breaking the bank at Monte Carlo for the Edwardians . |
| 10 | When I go down on the table-cloths , the water runs over my hand . |
| 11 | When I look back on the long friendship , I realize that I need not have had certain misgivings about troubling Eliot or taking up his time — misgivings due to temperamental diffidence rather than to genuine modesty , I am afraid — because he was both generous of his time and solicitous about the welfare of those in whom lie took an interest . |
| 12 | I begin to appreciate for the first time , as I stand here on the outside looking in , how very reserved is the world in which we work . |