Example sentences of "i [verb] [adv prt] on the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had my camera with me and I saw there was a ladder up on the top deck and when I got up on the top deck it was quite a giddy height , not to be bit I looked at the mast then I climbed up the mast up three quarters of the way up the mast and er the view from up there looked right down on the causeway . |
| 2 | ‘ I got off on the wrong foot , and I 'm never going to get it right now . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'm happy ’ , ‘ I 'm settled ’ , ‘ Now I know what it feels like ’ , ‘ I got out on the right side ’ . |
| 4 | At four and a half thousand pound of sales we start to pay extra fift in fact at four thousand pound we start but it 's only a small bonus so I home in on the bigger one . |
| 5 | I came out on the Good Friday and , on the Saturday morning , stitches still in and everything , I got up and thought to myself : ‘ I 'm going to have a smoke ’ . |
| 6 | The cheapest way to go was via Colombo and so I dropped in on the local centre there . |
| 7 | When I look back on the long friendship , I realize that I need not have had certain misgivings about troubling Eliot or taking up his time — misgivings due to temperamental diffidence rather than to genuine modesty , I am afraid — because he was both generous of his time and solicitous about the welfare of those in whom lie took an interest . |
| 8 | Below , I look down on the differing surfaces , the differing states of ripeness from light green through to gold . |
| 9 | I plonked down on the hard wooden sofa and began musing : was he telling the truth ? |
| 10 | I set up on the same spot as in the previous summer , but this time my luck was different . |
| 11 | But that alone did n't daunt my spirit , so I set off on the second day with a little more trepidation but just as much determination to learn to sail . |
| 12 | Then , once dressed , I set out on the great excursion : shopping , errands , and a treat in a cafe . |
| 13 | And so I set out on the long journey back to Thornfield . |
| 14 | Last year I set out on the same quest , but met with little success . |
| 15 | I popped out on the sixth-floor roof and had a cigarette . ’ |
| 16 | At first I managed to get hold of two pictures by Popova , then the thread broke off and , completely by chance , I stumbled back on the right trail . |
| 17 | Yet when I looked back on the last hour or so I could come to only one conclusion . |
| 18 | I lay back on the hot canvas of a recliner and closed my eyes , soaking it in . |
| 19 | I lay back on the empty bed and looked at my watch . |
| 20 | As I lay back on the clean white sheet tucked round the hard mattress of the sick room bed and faded into a temporary oblivion , I thought to myself that perhaps early retirement would be no bad thing to consider after all . |
| 21 | I lay down on the Pennine moors |
| 22 | I leaned back on the young tree that as a sapling had been the Killer . |
| 23 | For a long time I sat out on the crumbling turf , with the blue distances below , and warm sun lying over this lovely autumn land . |
| 24 | I sat down on the only patch of turf |
| 25 | I sat down on the wooden bed . |
| 26 | Way back in 1957 I had talked my boss into allowing me to learn to fly helicopters with the British European Airways Helicopter Unit at Gatwick and in 1960 I sat in on the first ground school course BOAC conducted for their senior captains converting to the first Boeing 707s . |
| 27 | So was it very surprising that I picked up on the African presence moving around the island ? |
| 28 | I missed out on the two games against Lyngby and the first leg against Leeds . |
| 29 | ‘ It will be the third time I 've been measured for a blazer — but I missed out on the last two ( matches ) , ’ Lane added . |
| 30 | I missed out on the Welsh match , so you might think this is sour grapes . |