Example sentences of "i [verb] [pron] on a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " 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 . |
| 2 | I 've got them on in one room , er I put them on a little bit |
| 3 | 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 |
| 4 | I followed it on a snug rope and pronounced it ‘ gripping but mild ’ , but then again , it 's always easy on the blunt end . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 , |
| 7 | I hurt myself on a big erm . |
| 8 | I do n't do it on that , I do it on a big blackboard |
| 9 | If I had it on a solid floor , but it 's got ta go , do n't forget it 's on a a wooden floor . |
| 10 | I had it on a little bit of elastic band and I 've , I 've lost it . |
| 11 | When I have found my tension I write it on a adhesive label and stick this on the inside of the cone , catching the tail end of yarn to the label at the same time . |
| 12 | I 'm explaining why I wanted it on a regular arrangement so that I would n't have to be annoying you when you 're … well , when you 've had a drink I suppose . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Sorry , but I really , truly can not help you now , ’ I say , just before I dispatch them on a current running down towards St Malo . |