Example sentences of "i [adv] on the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd been jumping up and down like an eejit for a couple of minutes before the bloke next to me tapped me politely on the shoulder to point out the linesman and his flag . |
| 2 | ‘ It caught me right on the side of my face , ’ she said . |
| 3 | ‘ Thank you , darling , ’ she said and punched me vigorously on the arm to tell me to get lost , though it was half a joke , it 's always half a joke with Dodger . |
| 4 | ‘ They let me in on the secret quite early — then people started joking about it . |
| 5 | So let me in on the secret . |
| 6 | People keep mentioning this Peter Barnes guy , could someone please let me in on the joke . |
| 7 | Well , now that I 've tracked you down , perhaps you would n't mind letting me in on the key to all this mystery . |
| 8 | ‘ You 'd better fill me in on the details , ’ he said . |
| 9 | " Fill me in on the tits , Slick . |
| 10 | ‘ All you have to do , Sorrel dear , is fill me in on the gossip about Simon Cawthorne . |
| 11 | He made the mistake of letting me in on the ground floor when he was offering a Pissarro . |
| 12 | Ye 'll find me down on the quay looking at her . |
| 13 | Waiting for me down on the sands — a great hulking shape , crouching there , darker than darkness . |
| 14 | The boy carried me in my travelling box , and put me down on the beach , while he looked for birds ' eggs among the rocks . |
| 15 | ‘ I 'll go ahead , and you can join me down on the beach . ’ |
| 16 | I protested , but only weakly ; I was hysterical , and , I suppose , rather excited too : even when he had me down on the floor , jammed in an uncomfortable position with my head stuck between the pedestal of the wash basin and a slimy floor cloth someone had left lying against the wall , I could still do nothing but laugh . |
| 17 | Just dragged me into the building , threw me down on the floor , made a lot of noise and left . ’ |
| 18 | One day Glumdalclitch put me down on the grass in the palace garden , while she went for a walk with some of the Queen 's ladies . |
| 19 | He patted me gently on the shoulder . |
| 20 | Let him take his chauffeur 's cap off very slowly and say softly to me , ‘ oh sir , I do n't never want to work for anyone else , never ’ ; let him kneel by the side of the great bed , in the moonlight , and let him lean over to kiss me gently on the lips and to run his leather-gloved hand tenderly across my cheek , across my lips , through my hair , saying all the time , ‘ oh sir , I 'm here sir , I 'm right here , I 'm right here by the bed ; was you calling me sir , did you call me ? ’ |
| 21 | Suddenly she leaned across the desk and kissed me quickly on the mouth . |
| 22 | ‘ At the house — he dropped me off on the way . |
| 23 | And dad could knock me off on the way to get the papers . |
| 24 | The Land Rover dropped me off on the edge of the town , surprisingly on a tarmac road , and I arranged to meet the lads nine miles further on . |
| 25 | He saw me off on the bus . |
| 26 | I , I want to talk to you about er the conversation I had with Alec yesterday , he seems to be inundated with having to get details about on his er , all his paperwork and so on , and he seems to be inundated and he sounded a bit low , quite frankly , to me yesterday on the phone that he was getting inundated with all this |
| 27 | Pick me up on the way . |
| 28 | That still messes me up on the guitar . ’ |
| 29 | And erm she phoned me up on the Sunday . |
| 30 | Aye just , if the two of yous get me up on the settee I 'll be alright , me and her ah ah ah ah ! |