Example sentences of "on and i [verb] " in BNC.

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1 No it were Monday when in here cos I was oh I were , Gavin were wanting some toast with jam on and I 'd only got a little bit like that , I says oh you 'll have to wait while your Aunty Margaret brings some more tomorrow .
2 Yeah , I mean I 'm I 'm very lucky because my parents are very liberal , and I mean they discussed sex with me quite early on and I 've never had a problem discussing it with them .
3 Damned if I could make out quite what 's going on and I 've been trying hard enough . ’
4 I could go on and on and on and I 've listened all week to the debates and I agree with what John said on Sunday .
5 Have n't got the key to go round there once so , I 'll put that on and I 've got a nightie .
6 Oh it was a horse-drawn , horse-drawn , there were no cars on the road in those days , I think I was one of the earliest to get knocked down by a car actually in Walsall , I was er , when we lived in Street he came down Street and immediately opposite there was a Co-op shop opposite Birds the fruitiers , and mother sent me down to the Co-op and the old trams used to run along the Pleck to Darlaston , Wednesbury and that way on and I ran across the road , past the Co-op the tram and a car must have just bumped into me and he knocked me down , a terrible commotion amongst the folks and could n't have hurt them much , because I got up and ran off , ran off home , so they were restricted in you see and the speed they could go in the car , but the car , the tram car was stopped at the bottom of Street , almost opposite the Co-op and er I must have just run across the road run into the car and more or less bounced off it I should think .
7 Oh yes , if you , you , no you get the sound , if I erm s say I 've got Oracle erm channel three on and I switch to text , I will still get the sound of the television programme
8 When I auditioned with Mike , he gave me a list of twenty-five songs to work on and I thought I had to learn them all in five days , because we were starting rehearsals only a week later !
9 ‘ I saw your light was on and I thought you ought to know .
10 No I did n't actually , cos the news was you know coming on and I thought I do n't know whether there 'd be any on there
11 And when I went to go to work I pulled me gloves what I thought out of pocket and was going to put them on and I thought er
12 We were o on and I thought , no way , and then Marianne said , no , it 's ju , she said , that 's too much , we 'll be , and like , erm , , we 'll knock off er , five hundred words of your assignment , if you do five minutes of thing , and that 's , no way .
13 cos time was going on and I thought well just watch that , I knew you wanted it taped and I thought time were going on
14 Prentice came on and I said who I was .
15 Get oxygen on and I said to my sister a married bloke .
16 with her head to put her thing on and I said you ai n't got ta go .
17 got myself ready I got my coat on and I said I 'll see you later
18 All , all my windows have got locks on and I said I 'm about six foot four and anyone gets in here I 'll kill them .
19 In 1974 I was at the National Theatre doing Shakespeare with Sir John Gielgud and whenever there was a play it was in repertory form , so another play came on and I had five days off , so I 'd fly to Toronto , have a three day ‘ loon ’ in Canada and then come back .
20 It was n't so much the ageing process itself that sent my spirits plummeting — although greying hair and wrinkles were n't exactly adding to my self-esteem — as the realisation that time is marching on and I had better not waste a moment of it .
21 There was one field in particular that I had made some good finds on and I had searched this piece of land time and time again .
22 Tom , I just stood there so hanging around waiting to see what were going on and I had to .
23 Well I was out there watering at time scares was on and I had this letter and planes did come over and I laid me ho hosepipe down , I mean you know so he would n't be able
24 So life went on and I adapted to my new country , to living as a black youngster in a white-dominated society .
25 I was over-qualified and signing on and I realised there was more money to be made taking my clothes off ’ .
26 I was over-qualified and signing on and I realised there was more money to be made taking my clothes off .
27 To the traveller , said Bill , ‘ It would give you a thrill To hear all the tales of my youth Of days dead and gone But the memory lives on And I swear every word is the truth . ’
28 Let's try and get it on the board , which somebody has written on and I told them about that and asked them to clean it , but , bring a spray can of white paint next time .
29 As time went on and I knew that I had a fight on my hands , healing became as important to me as my new diet or the other new therapies .
30 I picked her up and she were wet through , had to put fire on and I laid her in front of fire
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