Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [noun sg] i [verb] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | They would repay me for the dowry I wasted on you , but I have no wish to be reminded of you . |
| 2 | I do not expect much joy from the Minister tonight , but I give warning that , for the time I remain on these Benches , with the label on which I came here eight and a half years ago — as a Labour Member of Parliament , albeit a Member who has a label beneath his name on the TV as an expelled Labour Member — I shall bring before the House the necessary measures not just to talk about the death of the poll tax but to bury it once and for all . |
| 3 | ‘ About the man I hit on the head . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Cristo , when I think of the money I spent on detectives … ’ |
| 5 | For a while I sat on the edge of the bed until Benjamin joined me . |
| 6 | For a time I leaned on a rail and watched the rushing waters where the rivers Boyne and Blackwater combine . |
| 7 | I used to work as a boy I did on . |
| 8 | As a kid I dwelled on his every move ’ . |
| 9 | Commonly called yellow fumitory , it comes up like mustard and cress at the foot of every shady wall in the garden and I used to wrench it out with the ruthlessness I used on sycamore seedlings until I discovered it on sale in a nursery for well over £1 a plant . |
| 10 | I did it once with a Kraut I met on Piccadilly Underground . |
| 11 | With a sigh I went on a few steps further to George 's office and found him as I 'd expected , fully dressed , lightly napping , with worked-on forms pushed to one side beside an empty coffee cup . |
| 12 | I go and pour myself a generous gin from the bottle I bought on Thursday and add a dash of orange for colour . |
| 13 | From the book I held on my lap ! |
| 14 | While you 're in the bathroom I insist on making that drink . |
| 15 | I think probably that was probably London but in the north I lived on the north east coast in a very small town and some of I mean my memories are quite different in a way . |
| 16 | It seemed that Heathcliff 's room was locked , and there were no guest bedrooms , so in the end I slept on a chair in the child 's room . |
| 17 | The term ‘ heritage blight ’ is used in the article I read on the situation , and seems very appropriate . |
| 18 | in the arrangement I had on my birthday . |
| 19 | Counteracting my cancer cells has been an evolutionary process in which a whole series of different ‘ attacks ’ have been launched depending upon the information I have on myself , how and what I feel . |
| 20 | They brought me down that day from Edinburgh , bundled me into a transit van with seats but no windows , handcuffed to a big quiet London lad who would n't talk to me at all and did n't even say much to the other two cops in the back of the transit just sat staring ahead and we seemed to drive all night just stopping once at some service station on the Ml , took a while to arrange everything , then they came in with a selection of cans of soft drinks and sandwiches and pasties and pork pies and chocolate and we all sat there munching then they asked me did I need the toilet and I said yes and they opened the door and it was straight over the grass into the gents ' toilets , two cops guarding the door and some men , looked like truckers , standing watching me , waiting for their turn after I 'd had my private visit ; only wanted a pee but I could n't do it even though the big lad was n't actually watching just having him standing there handcuffed to me was enough so they checked the stalls and then took the cuffs off me and I had to leave the door open a crack while I went , then back out and I see the other cop cars Christ a Range Rover and a Senator too I 'm a fucking VIP , then it 's into the van and on with the journey to London where the questioning starts ; they 're concentrating on Sir Rufus 's murder , for now , because they found a card a fucking business card in the woods near the burned cottage ; not mine that would have been too obvious but a card from a guy I know on Jane 's Defence Weekly with some scribbled notes on the back : |
| 21 | I , I think I ca I , once upon a time I did on the fixed seating for , for I think you could get about a hundred and twenty round |
| 22 | I did touch on this problem a good many years ago in an essay I wrote on the death of a great music-hall artist , Marie Lloyd . |
| 23 | On my way back to the surgery I brooded on the fact that I was achieving absolutely nothing with my treatment . |
| 24 | JM : I refer the Leader of the Opposition to the answer I gave on the 345-yard par-4 8th . |
| 25 | He did not reply to the letter I left on his desk until months later , by which time he must have overcome the initial shock my flight must surely have caused him . |
| 26 | The reason I 'm say ask people to erm give me some idea of where they feel , I may have my own ideas , where they feel , depends on the information I impart on people . |
| 27 | Standing on the summit I reflected on our few days of warm sunshine , high quality bolted routes , lots of fun and curious pebble climbing in a mountain setting . |
| 28 | As he slithers across the mud I gain on him . |
| 29 | At the meeting I reported on the position of the gathering health service dispute and we then looked at a number of other pay issues . |
| 30 | I I often , well , usually , if I 'm in the country at the time I bet on the National just for a , for a to sort of waste some money . |