Example sentences of "and i [vb past] on [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had a fair idea as to who had done it , and I passed on my suspicions about so-and-so and so-and-so , and asked for something to be done about it . |
| 2 | I felt a bit shy , going back to school , and I hovered on their doorstep thinking what to say . |
| 3 | He was lying with his legs across the path , and I fell on my knees beside him . |
| 4 | But anyway this went on for weeks and weeks , and I kept on it down the lift shaft . |
| 5 | We sat after lunch on Monday in his room ; or rather he sat chubbily at his desk , living up to his nickname , spooning Hymettus honey out of a jar and telling me of the flesh and fleshpots he had bought himself in Athens ; and I lay on his bed , only half listening . |
| 6 | The arrow tip came free and I lay on my side in frightful suffering weakness , looking down at a sharp black point sticking out from scarlet wool . |
| 7 | During those months you 've frequently explained how we would both benefit from informing the literary world of the trick Tristram and I played on it . |
| 8 | My husband Julian and I went on our honeymoon to Yugoslavia — annual inflation ran at 350 per cent . |
| 9 | Continuing with the photo-copies that our Chairman , Richard Newcombe and I secured on our visit to the National Railway Museum at York , in this issue of the Journal I wish to concentrate on the correspondence between S. H. Pearce-Higgins and W. Roberts , who was the Receiver/Manager of the Bishop 's Castle Railway . |
| 10 | Naturally , my master and I reflected on what had happened at Royston . |
| 11 | It felt it on the first morning when it came in and I sat on it , I thought well I 'm sure it did n't feel like the one we tried in the shop did n't feel like this but |
| 12 | I have always been fascinated by Magritte 's work ; I have met all his friends , and I worked on his archives for six years . |
| 13 | This is a featureless big plateau , and I arrived on it in a blizzard . |
| 14 | When my mother and I called on him he said that if we could wait a few days he would find the right frame and have it stove-enamelled black . |
| 15 | Elizabeth and I turned on him severely , and told him that someone who was both old and a distinguished writer was not to be bothered with such things . |