Example sentences of "[conj] i [verb] [pron] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I speak with Michael Odell inside ten minutes , or I raise him on the open line , ’ said Quinn carefully . |
| 2 | After breakfast at the palace all the inmates are thrown out , whatever the weather , and the only place he can take his child is outside : " Usually I take my little boy at weekends to the fair at Whitley Bay , or I take him on the metro and we sit at the front — he loves trains . |
| 3 | I fundamentally disagree with his proposition , although I congratulate him on the stand that he has taken for his principles . |
| 4 | Even if I 'd told you that I heard it on the local news , I doubt you 'd have taken my word for it . |
| 5 | Does Mike have some er Georgian Hotel , look at that Christmas jokes , Daddy , Eddie 's broken my new dog how did he do that I hit him on the head with it Why is Father Christmas unemployed ? |
| 6 | It is for that reason that I include it on the shortlist for the Worst Building in the World title . |
| 7 | IT was on a very wet Saturday afternoon that I found myself on the top of the North Downs observing whiffs of smoke emerging from a boiler which to all intents and purposes was standing among a mountain of waste metal in a field almost miles from anywhere . |
| 8 | Now I know it was a great honour but I could see no way of accepting , so I put it on the mantelpiece and more or less prepared to forget all about it . |
| 9 | and I got one on the C's . |
| 10 | In the next lesson , I asked him to share his six ways with 1 in front , and I wrote them on the blackboard . |
| 11 | My sleeping bag 's on the floor , and I shove it on the bed quick . |
| 12 | I had a flat tape recorder with a directional mic and I stuck it on the table and above me was a speaker through which all this muzak was coming out . |
| 13 | And I left it on the side instead of leaving it in the grill . |
| 14 | I shall tell you , instead , of the time Gerda and I saw you on the stage in Vienna . ’ |
| 15 | Under Lily Laverock 's auspices , she came to Vancouver on an annual concert tour , and when Marjorie Agnew and I approached her on the matter she was delighted to become a sponsor . |
| 16 | Then I get this hot feeling at the back of my head and everything goes funny and I find myself on the floor . |
| 17 | And I find myself on the pavement … crowds yelling … men surging towards the entrance , trying to get in , police with truncheons swinging — then my most terrifying experience . |
| 18 | I mean we 've got , four , four , four cars in our house , the gran lives in the granny annexe inside , god knows how the fucking hell she got a parking space , somehow she did , mum 's got her 's in there , my old mans parked his opposite , we 've got a big double drive as well , my old man parks his on the right and I park mine on the fucking left , its like a parking lot out there in the mornings , and if when he says |
| 19 | and I sat them on the floor |
| 20 | No , not at the min not at the min I have n't erm , there was one shoved through just this morning and I was on the phone I just picked it up and I shoved it on the |
| 21 | I 've already completed mine : my son and I disturbed one on the main path leading up to The Merrick , in Galloway , and ranger Fred Gordon and I saw a very angry one on the path in Glen Cairn in the Cairngorms . |
| 22 | My mother was at work and I called her on the telephone . |
| 23 | I took the milk , and I poured it on the floor where the slate is hollowed , because once I saw the lake in moonlight and it was white . |
| 24 | Then it stopped and I found myself on the side opposite to her . |
| 25 | I knew roughly what I was looking for and I found it on the floor under a seat frame from which the seat had been removed . |
| 26 | If I contacted him on the same number that I contacted you |
| 27 | If I take them on the table they wo n't make so much noise then |
| 28 | If I kicked him on the shin I bet he 'd limp away and not even glance to see who 'd done it . |
| 29 | But I fancy that if I found myself on the field of Waterloo with a foot missing , or in a dentist 's chair without benefit of anaesthetic — a future form of laudanum — or faced with a work-situation in which my family were slowly being starved and degraded , then my conclusions might reasonably be the same . ) |
| 30 | If I see anything on the subject it goes into the file , and eventually I have enough material for a book or an article . ’ |