Example sentences of "i [verb] [pron] on [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I flung it on the open ledger on the table . |
| 2 | ‘ I speak with Michael Odell inside ten minutes , or I raise him on the open line , ’ said Quinn carefully . |
| 3 | One of these papers was a recent statement by the county education committee that no change in the status of the grammar school was contemplated : on that basis , I was able to reassure my anxious colleagues , when I met them on the first day of term , that abrupt change was not imminent . |
| 4 | If you are looking for Monsieur Alain , I passed him on the main road . |
| 5 | " I could n't possibly afford the flat if I were renting it now , but I got it on a long lease just after the war , when rents were much less than they are today , " she said . |
| 6 | Oh I got it on the bloody Saturday did n't I ! |
| 7 | Yeah and that 's another thing I found I had a letter from the Social Security saying would you please send your order book back you 're not entitled to any more money , your sickness benefit 's run out , I thought it ca n't have , I do n't go back until the twenty fifth of March , phones up for the appointment I got it on the fifth of March , nine days ago |
| 8 | It was definitely time to say farewell and stepping down from the canal at that point I found myself on the very street of my son 's house . |
| 9 | ‘ I found it on the barbed wire . |
| 10 | ‘ I think I caught everyone on the wrong foot at Ayresome Park when I increased my shareholding to 48 per cent earlier in the season . ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | I phoned her on the fourth night to say goodnight to her that was all . |
| 13 | No I want another half because I want something on the other one . |
| 14 | I want it on the biting edge between ‘ is n't it hysterically funny ? ’ and ‘ is n't it absolutely unbearably awful ? ’ it 's the working class ploy , or disabled ploy , that you joke about adversity . |
| 15 | there for three pairs which was just as well I stopped you on the last one . |
| 16 | I 've got them on in one room , er I put them on a little bit |
| 17 | Unless I put them on the outside wood . |
| 18 | I agree with what you 're saying but when I 've done it before and involved the pupil in such a report I put it on a separate sheet , so that |
| 19 | So , I put it on the other way round this morning and he hates it , I 've only just done it |
| 20 | So I put it on the dim switch so as he can see to get in the bedroom . |
| 21 | That used to be a completely different tune ; I had the lyrics , but I played it on an open tuned National , then when I got the Strat and plugged it into an old Fender Vibrolux amp , it became what it became on record . |
| 22 | Will I do it on the other side ? |
| 23 | 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 |
| 24 | The vermouth was dark red , and I wondered what my mother would do if I poured it on the mushroom-coloured carpet — very slowly . |
| 25 | Well I , I I , I do n't mind how it 's done but erm I hear nothing on the many people on , you know , who talk about erm giving aid erm a dread from this problem is this vast erm amount of the G M P and going on armaments and going on one way and another . |
| 26 | If I contacted him on the same number that I contacted you |
| 27 | I followed it on a snug rope and pronounced it ‘ gripping but mild ’ , but then again , it 's always easy on the blunt end . |
| 28 | Even if I 'd told you that I heard it on the local news , I doubt you 'd have taken my word for it . |
| 29 | I find myself on a small brick platform about twenty feet above a man-made , well-bricked channel which follows a straight course through the factories and warehouses . |
| 30 | I 'm just like my mum , when it comes down to it , That 's why I quite admired Auntie Muriel , in a guarded sort of way I 'd think , I really should try to be like her , she was so content , nothing ever fazed her , I did n't want to be a farmer , understand , but I did n't want to be like mum either , tied to a feckless man , trying to keep him and me , having to hustle all the time to stop from sinking I fancied myself on a corporate asteroid , settling down with someone who would cherish me and buy me everything I wanted Carmen and her crew had the same ideas , even if they acted like they were going to be bad girls for ever , |