Example sentences of "i [verb] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | He seemed unconcerned at letting me loose on his half-share investment and I tried telling myself that ahead lay merely a quick pop over three undemanding obstacles , not the first searching test of my chances of racing . |
| 2 | He seemed to have forgotten about only letting me loose on water . |
| 3 | Your chairman was kind enough — before he let me loose on this most patient audience — to say that my attitude , for an historian , was very unhistorical and I took it that that was meant as praise . |
| 4 | As he wrote years later in his long unpublished memoirs , ‘ hazard or Providence made me knock on the door of the Hôtel Terminus of the Gare du Nord . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ The Kha-Khan wants me to report on his conduct . ’ |
| 6 | Did you expect me to fall on your neck in some touching display of filial affection ? ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Do n't expect me to fall on your neck in gratitude , Merkut , ’ he said . |
| 8 | They 're telling me to go on the stage and act , but I ca n't do it , it 's the one thing Mum and Dad are dead set against . ’ |
| 9 | He was warned in advance , but , as a former soldier , felt ‘ God has chosen me to go on this forlorn hope of preaching his Blessed Gospel in his country , and I should discourage those who are coming after me if I should be afraid and fly . ’ |
| 10 | He adds sadly : ‘ It 's impossible for me to go on a quiet date as I get recognised everywhere and asked for autographs . ’ |
| 11 | Nobody told me to become a stand-up comedian and nobody told me to go on the fucking telly . ’ |
| 12 | The idea was for me to go on the high-wire sixty feet above ground — on the shoulders of a Czechoslovakian circus performer . |
| 13 | It 's why Uncle Vernon wanted me to go on the stage . ’ |
| 14 | Brian Ross wanted me to go on camera to say so , but I refused . |
| 15 | ‘ They want me to go on a course , the company runs it , so 's I can demonstrate the new machine . |
| 16 | No I 've made , it 's made an awful lot of difference to me the New Town I mean we 've got and the Council are very , very good to us , I mean we ca n't say they 're not , they 've had a , I 've had the gas central heating put in , I 've had a shower put in since I 've been here and I mean they do they look after us well , the only thing I 'm upset about that I 've put off the ambulance to go to Leah Manning on a Wednesday because they want me to go on a Tuesday and I can not go on a Tuesday because I have my friend come down which does all odd jobs for me you know , on a Tuesday dear and I just can not so I had to see Mr is it ? |
| 17 | When did you ever know me to go on a diet ? |
| 18 | They wanted me to go on casual . |
| 19 | He handed me a toffee , climbed into his car , beckoned me to sit on the other front seat for a few minutes , and removed the celluloid sidescreen to give us more fresh air . |
| 20 | We had several until I decided that it was time for me to sit on her lap . |
| 21 | Told me to sit on his knee . |
| 22 | His conversations with me centred on Heidegger and death " . |
| 23 | Here 's me stamping on balls . |
| 24 | But we all went swimming on Tuesday nights at Hamilton baths , and I did better than some because my father had taught me to swim on holiday . |
| 25 | me to wait on death-row , |
| 26 | ‘ Well , that 's an artful way to get me to wait on you , ’ interrupted Sally-Anne frankly , ‘ and I suppose , since you are so cunning , and I am dying for a drink , you might have your way — perhaps a bonus on my wages might be an idea , seeing that I shall be doing this out of hours . ’ |
| 27 | Obviously , the volume of data by making notes and by taperecording that I acquired made it sensible for me to concentrate on the one school rather than the other . |
| 28 | As the time approached for me to concentrate on my matriculation , I decided to offer Charlie the opportunity to buy out my share of the partnership and even arranged for a qualified accountant to replace me in order that they could take over the book-keeping . |
| 29 | ‘ My boss hinted this afternoon at asking me to work on another case . ’ |
| 30 | Erm Simon had a list Well we 'd come and see him the thirty first of January , Tony came to me to work on it today , and that 's not . |