Example sentences of "[noun pl] i [verb] on " in BNC.
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| 31 | ( The truth is I do n't want to forgive her , because it will free her from the grappling irons I have on her . |
| 32 | Yes , well just a postscript just to show to my earlier comments , I , I think this undertaking about street lighting will be met with some clarity over wide areas of Suffolk which have never seen a street light , er as far as I can recall the last figures I saw on this suggested that if we were to er carry out all the work that er parish is required it would take forty years to er meet the er thing , so perhaps it would be advisable for , for when this promise is acting on the |
| 33 | And here I ought to perhaps make it clear that the circles I provided on the sheet which was distributed , allow for a density of twenty houses per hectare . |
| 34 | She 's like one of them underwater swimmers I seen on telly — you know , all slow and graceful like . |
| 35 | Indeed one of the best comments I remember on this subject came two or three years ago from Mats Wilander , another who struggled to find form on grass courts and might also be one of those happy to see them disappear . |
| 36 | And these you should remember are basically the terms I gave on the previous page . |
| 37 | And names I saw on printed lists , quotas , manifests . |
| 38 | And there are the future situations I sit on the bed here and think about : my utter love for some man ; I know I ca n't do things like love by halves , I know I have love pent up in me , I shall throw myself away , lose my heart and my body and my mind and soul to some cad like G.P. Who 'll betray me . |
| 39 | I was always impressed by the quality of the students ' preparation for the lessons I observed on my weekly visits to them and by their willing capacity to learn by their mistakes . |
| 40 | ‘ That vase of flowers I put on the dining room windowsill has been moved . ’ |
| 41 | And in another poem , entitled Local Hero , Dominic wrote : Devoid of charts I drift on a raft of dreams , So please think kindly if ever you consider me , For is not compassion the finest of the arts ? |
| 42 | But that 's provided for you and it is erm it you know certainly the assignments I did on the medical practice they were it was very valuable . |
| 43 | ‘ If that is horses I hear on the drive , here come a purveyor of consequences . ’ |
| 44 | good game … who 's he kidding it 's going to be a cracker … what 's the odds I wonder on a Gloucester … |
| 45 | Yeah , the clothes I had on was identical to that of P C . |
| 46 | The women I met on holiday were unanimous . |
| 47 | You know those ones I bought on Saturday ? |
| 48 | Furious with myself for these creeping insidious thoughts I focussed on lengthening my stride and levitating the rucksack . |
| 49 | I 've called back into his mind the spells I put on him at his birth . |
| 50 | As we sat and sipped our half-pint shandies I reflected on what a lucky choice of company I had made . |
| 51 | In one of my first jobs I plastered on the make-up and wore very executive-type suits . |