Example sentences of "[pron] [modal v] [verb] on [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In an extreme case , someone may act on them for the reason that , or on the principle that , ‘ a little bit of what you fancy does you good ’ . |
| 2 | I must build on it . ’ |
| 3 | Wright was substituted against Norway , having lost his way after missing a good chance , but Taylor said : ‘ He deserves another go , but I must impress on him not to get so uptight if one gets away . |
| 4 | Ha ha ! ’ he replies ; ‘ I 'll spit on you , if you like ! |
| 5 | ‘ I 'll check on you from time to time . ’ |
| 6 | I think I 'll go on me own . ’ |
| 7 | I 'll tell on you . |
| 8 | I 'll stamp on you . |
| 9 | I 'll sleep on it tonight and tomorrow we 'll go all out to get you somewhere . |
| 10 | I 'll work on him and try to bring him round . |
| 11 | Still , I 'll work on it . |
| 12 | We 've flagged up those problems to command and I 'm seeing Mr on Tue Tuesday afternoon I think it is , and Jed 's put a report into command and I 'll put on it as well , and we 're saying to them what is the answer ? |
| 13 | Yeah Do you want sheet , no I wo n't press enter yet , ca n't do it now printing type escape to stop now it 's alright , I 'll wait On it 's side at the top of the page and everything never did any computing . |
| 14 | it was in my training , she but she had n't but your mother who never had before I could rely on her from a little child , I said stay there , when I came back , if I came back half an hour later , she 'd still of been there Linda would of been |
| 15 | And I could rely on them because they were good at that job you see , particular job . |
| 16 | The proctologist handed me three envelopes , one addressed to each of us , then told me that if I ever had piles I could rely on him to cut them out for cost . |
| 17 | I thought I could rely on you , that Ramsey could rely on you … ’ |
| 18 | I must say I 'd have thought I could rely on you to calm people down . |
| 19 | Well I 'd already spoken to the man who was running the course , the lecturer and he told me I could go on it , but his secretary said it was booked . |
| 20 | I must n't have been out of that office half an hour and I 'd , she 'd rung here and left a message to say I could go on it . |
| 21 | I did n't know very much about barn owls at the time , so I busied myself reading everything I could find on them , in the library and magazines . |
| 22 | ‘ I knew I could count on her . ’ |
| 23 | I knew I could count on you . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ I knew I could count on you , ’ she cooed . |
| 25 | But if I did n't know I could count on you , I suppose you would n't be here . " |
| 26 | ‘ I took her to Anglesey , ’ says Christine , ‘ where we have a house , and where I could concentrate on her completely . |
| 27 | You 're all having arguments about that , you all go to the pictures , an early showing , you go home , bung a Marks and Spencer 's meal into the oven , they 're great I could live on it , O K , just bung it into the oven , pull out the cork , then you sit down , wind down the week , couple of sherbets , maybe a glass of brandy , one o'clock in the morning , here we come , and all the rest of it , sort the world out , Friday night , wind down , enjoy the weekend . |
| 28 | Sometimes it helps to add retarding gel to acrylic paint for this type of manipulation , but on this occasion the area involved was small , and I could work on it easily whilst the colours remained wet . |
| 29 | Of course , he could want the word ‘ abverb' ( as in ‘ pleasur ab ly' ) , but I so much doubt it that I 'd bet on it . ’ |
| 30 | I 'd go on it . |