Example sentences of "[conj] i [be] [verb] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | After that came Sleetburn , where I was born on 1 August 1926 , which was owned by a William Hutchinson when we lived there . |
| 2 | Although I am questioned on this in moments of crisis , I firmly believe it to be true . |
| 3 | I should make it clear that I am drawing on notions of an idealised business environment when I refer to unambiguous communication being the motive power which occasions accountability . |
| 4 | It all makes me even more angry at the injustice of the situation , and then I worry that I am passing on that anger when I 'm with the boys . ’ |
| 5 | Well I 'm , as a matter of fact before that I actually said that er this , all this that I am doing on your behalf is completely free of charge |
| 6 | My people , I must admit I have written to Hot Press over the past few issues but due to the fact that I am concentrating on my forthcoming solo gig in the Attic on George 's Quay on November the 6th at 9 o'clock , ( cover charge £2 ) , be there or be square etc. , the standard of my letter writing has faltered somewhat . |
| 7 | It was crucial to the consistency of the work that it should not conclude : the narrator simply states that ‘ there has been no decision except that I 'm moving on ’ ( Wurlitzer 1969 : 161 ) . |
| 8 | At which point I turn and see that they have n't gone off at all , that I 'm sitting on the fourth step , the bottom step , right up against the barrier . |
| 9 | Well this particular system that I 'm working on a the moment is really unintelligent . |
| 10 | I had gone to Bletchley in excitement and trepidation , had been very content there , in congenial company , and with the satisfaction of knowing that I was employed on work essential to the war effort . |
| 11 | I was informed by a normally respectable member of the Gwili Board that I was wanted on the telephone in the shop . |
| 12 | ‘ It was so bad that I was put on crutches . |
| 13 | The journey was not in vain , for I quickly realised that I was walking on man-made terraces . |
| 14 | My motivations were not as clear-cut as those of any contemporary workforce , but there is no doubt in my mind that I was going on strike in the only way I knew how to , and that in this sense Szasz is right to describe anorexia nervosa as a political problem . |
| 15 | And then , damn me , it was clear that I was sitting on someone ! |
| 16 | ‘ I began to lose consciousness and felt that I was standing on the world 's edge aside of a high , dark space looking across it , thinking that I was about to enter into it . |
| 17 | ‘ Mr Mallon stated that I was embarked on sweeping the RUC very clean and inferred for that reason that some senior people within the force did not wish that approach to continue . |
| 18 | Bang a drum and it answers back , so I was working on a street market at the time and I went and bought a drum and started to learn . |
| 19 | I kept thinking cos I was , was n't very well Saturday so I was lying on the settee thinking well I hope it ai n't me . |
| 20 | Once I was lying on the bed I noticed that with the appearance of Aids , there is so much more precaution — every needle , tube , cotton wool swab etc is carefully disposed of . |
| 21 | Now they have brought forward a plan which is that they should lend me sufficient money to rent another house in which Mr Landor is to have the first floor , comprising three rooms , a book closet , and a terrace , and I am to reside on the ground floor and care for him receiving £30 a year for my trouble . |
| 22 | ‘ I can not deny that I have had my troubles off the park , or that my mind was on other things for a while , but my head is down and I am concentrating on making a contribution to the team once again . |
| 23 | The first four volumes have been publishes and I am working on the final volume , covering chiefly the First World War . |
| 24 | Having made the Hannover picture I thought it would be nice to have a smaller version , so I now have a two-metre square version on canvas , also painted with Scanachrome , and I am working on the area of the television screen in a more painterly manner than I was able to use on the large one . |
| 25 | I have always managed to miss the occasional pairs that nest on the Union Canal near my home and I am relying on second-hand reports when I say that the drake whistles softly to his mate who makes raucous growling noises in return . |
| 26 | I am back in the little room at the top of the spiral staircase on Wednesday morning and I am sitting on the Squeez-Ee box , with the minute in front of me , going through the remaining contents of the Quaker Oats archive , page by dusty page . |
| 27 | Fairfax and I are sitting on the verandah at Folly Farm . |
| 28 | At the moment he and I are working on a scheme which could wreck this political organisation for good . |
| 29 | And I 'm singing on one track , I think , in the background … very quietly ! |
| 30 | I 've become very fond of Ellis and I 'm prepared on occasion to be tempted into his latest hare-brained scheme , but I 'm buggered if I 'll carry on like Richard Hannay and his chums in a John Buchan novel . |