Example sentences of "[subord] i [verb] on [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once I urged on her a walk which I had taken with children I knew and which had seemed very easy to me . |
| 2 | If I got on me high horse every time somebody hinted that I was n't like Betty Grable , I would have ridden to hell long before this . ’ |
| 3 | You 're just a piece of shit and if I stepped on you I 'd scrape you off my shoe . |
| 4 | ‘ It ca n't hurt the Oak now if I stand on it to get in , can it ? |
| 5 | ‘ If I leaned on him . ’ |
| 6 | I would be stretching the patience of my audience if I commented on them . |
| 7 | Well I think that 's cos I lie on me right in bed . |
| 8 | Cos I call on them everyday , I can pick the tools up and deliver them the next day . |
| 9 | I was captured by the Gestapo during the war and was terrified because I had on me a number of incriminating documents , lists of names , maps and so on . |
| 10 | Because I cheated on them both . ’ |
| 11 | Keep going till I land on it |
| 12 | I had to turn the hearing capacity up to maximum before I stumbled on it — not a practice I would normally follow or recommend — in the wrong circumstances you can get your eardrums blasted off . |
| 13 | When I walk on it the whole thing starts to move and I am soon covered in the grey dust I am stirring up ; it fills my nostrils and triggers a memory that links the smell with rock climbing . |
| 14 | When I commented on it , George said that that window was open always except in blizzards , eh ? |
| 15 | When I talk on it . |
| 16 | When I talk on it . |
| 17 | Brand told me that they 'd been friendly from way back and when I leaned on him a bit he admitted that they 'd had a thing going but it had been broken off two or three years ago . ’ |
| 18 | I felt it when I caught sight of Jean-Claude unobserved , or as I reflected on him when he was out of sight . |
| 19 | I lit up a Rothmans as I walked jerkily over the park , shivering , the cigarette rushed to my head and I felt better as I drew on it strongly , cupping the end in the palm of my grubby hand . |