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

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1 I asked on that occasion for considerably more information .
2 My right hon. Friend will recall that I asked on 18 July for an inquiry , and my constituents will welcome what my right hon. Friend has said today .
3 I asked on a hunch .
4 As he slithers across the mud I gain on him .
5 Like this conversation I overheard on Uros .
6 Oh mind , it was quite light , it was n't and I saddled on the path and I did n't , I do n't take chances .
7 DNase I footprints on the VZV gene 62 promoter .
8 May I expound on my answer ?
9 I lost it in 1963 on the A30 west of Salisbury when I skidded on some diesel oil and rolled over and over .
10 And still I surfed on Manhattan static .
11 And er so that 's er I stopped on six months , being an orderly , because I could n't go back into tailoring , obviously , because er it might have aggravated it all again .
12 Near a tombstone-memorial by the wayside , I gazed on a crowd of boys .
13 They would repay me for the dowry I wasted on you , but I have no wish to be reminded of you .
14 And now I look back on the years I wasted on the building sites and I should 've become a policeman ea a lot earlier cos it 's great fun .
15 I had become interested in the Sudan itself after reading Samuel Baker 's books , but at first my interest was largely in the wild life and the big-game hunting in the Southern Sudan ; then at Eton I chanced on The River War , Winston Churchill 's vivid account of Kitchener 's campaign to reconquer the Sudan from the Khalifa .
16 Could you please tell me : a ) how much I made on the deal ; b ) year of manufacture and finally ; c ) why is the thing so rare ?
17 ‘ Now work out the profit I made on each of the five cars and add up the total .
18 David has done some transcription this week , erm and I 've done a bit , erm and that 's basically , well we 've got one side of , you 've got one side of those lectures to do erm and I 've got some of the recording that I made on Thursday to do and that and that .
19 I made on the deal , but when I switched it on my first thought was : uh-oh .
20 The woman from Ty Fach has found the pictures that I made on the rock , and the little woman with her has looked at them .
21 Apart from the few noises I made on the path , all I could hear was the very occasional and distant roar of heavy trucks on the road through town .
22 Er , he did after a while because there just are n't that many people who run round the N E C who look me in July , but erm , there were conventions earlier in the year , but it , it , you know , I got , actually a very reasonable size of contract out of this man , from that thirty second note I made on the calendar .
23 I flash on something but I ca n't think what it is ; something empty , something white .
24 I flash on the special branch : sleepless interrogations in windowless cells .
25 We have three levels of communicative assessments ( covering roughly the first three years of the secondary curriculum ) which I coordinate on behalf of EMREB and the LEAs .
26 I share my hon Friend 's appreciation of the value and importance of the large reforms proposed in the Bill of 1939 , and when I decided , as I announced on 23rd March , to appoint an Advisory Council to assist in the preparation of a programme of reforms , I certainly had it in mind that many of the proposals in that Bill — improved it may be by further consideration and fresh ideas — might find a place in such a programme .
27 In addition , it will be eligible for up to £3.66 million under the urban crime fund initiative that I announced on 26 November .
28 I announced on 15 January the establishment , with the joint support of British Aerospace , of Hutton grammar school in Lancashire as the first voluntary-aided technology school .
29 The European arts festival , which I announced on 9 December will be a rewarding and imaginative way of celebrating our Presidency of the European Community in the second half of the year .
30 The revenue settlement is matched by the substantial local government capital settlement for ninety four five which I announced on the thirtieth of November .
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