Example sentences of "[verb] i [verb] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | But my great joy is that my parents both lived long enough to see me established on television . |
| 3 | There was nobody about to see me knocking on Sally 's door . |
| 4 | It does n't improve his nerves now to see me sitting on his carpet timing Casey 's phone rings with my stopwatch to work out the number he dialled . |
| 5 | ‘ Do you want me to elaborate on that ? ’ |
| 6 | Now , do you want me to turn on the fire for you ? |
| 7 | You do n't want me to intrude on your territory . ’ |
| 8 | Do you want me to come on the nineteenth as well ? |
| 9 | It 's a great tribute to the that they have managed triumph over adversity and achieved such tremendous results this season and I am sure that members would want me to place on record the Council 's congratulations on their performance . |
| 10 | Do you want me to comment on that as we go through or |
| 11 | They expected me to live on supplementary benefit so I was having to work the street , trying to get my house together . |
| 12 | He can make me depend on him . |
| 13 | But you asked me to comment on potential weaknesses , and this is one area which you may consider to be worthy of some serious attention . |
| 14 | Reading the article in this issue on Remembrance led me to reflect on the statement in our Royal Charter which says that one of the objects of the Association is to : |
| 15 | I was sorry that he went to the West Riding after only two terms , although this made me stand on my own feet quickly , which was of itself of value . |
| 16 | As he wrote years later in his long unpublished memoirs , ‘ hazard or Providence made me knock on the door of the Hôtel Terminus of the Gare du Nord . ’ |
| 17 | Downstairs , he made me sit on his knee . |
| 18 | He let me go up and made me sit on the divan and he put on some music and turned out the lights and the moon came through the window . |
| 19 | In one village , suddenly raided by the army at 2am , villagers made me lie on the ground and threw a blanket over me , telling the soldiers I was an old woman , too sick to move . |
| 20 | The intern cleaned me up then made me lie on a trolley in a curtained cubicle . |
| 21 | ‘ Why do you think I insisted on your staying on here in Denmark when you were hell-bent on leaving ? |
| 22 | He does n't think that widening the carriageway on the corner of Road and Road will be very sensible , but that was n't what we were suggesting , we were suggesting I think on er Avenue rather than so we 'll have to write back and tell him . |
| 23 | By all means snoop into my answer machine and sit through 20 messages suggesting I travel on a coach to Grimsby to review a Jive Bunny concert . |
| 24 | Can I just comment I think on the process , what happens is , is that in fact the application is made by the director of property services , we do n't now have a first resolution or a second resolution . |
| 25 | The thing is , if they always give you and you , your , nine times out of ten what they do is like , is either , they either put a can over there or a beer or something , they put it over the end of the , the weapon pull the trigger and that , even with a flash that can go like that , and then they show you one with the , the erm flashes right which have more powerful than the and they 've actually got same again same charge as a life grenade in , but it just plain cardboard so , obviously no trap , but if you lay on them ooh er , you get or something you do n't throw what they do now is they put one they light one , put the helmet over the top of it and make it lit , it runs like buggery and it 'll go a hundred , a hundred and fifty foot up in the air and inside it looks like its been and where its been in the thing it 'll be like er , six seventy foot off the ground , I mean I laid on one once and I , landed about two foot too my left so I 've rolled over , rolled , rolled , and rolled , as I 've rolled I 've rolled over on my back and I 've had all loads of over , like the , I had a roll there its like the er |
| 26 | Er cos er my son-in-law I mean I put on the form right I 've got no children right . |
| 27 | No I do n't think so , but I mean I think on the whole that the pop the admin the erm Clinton Administrations Policy is to try and encourage the development of nat the use of natural gas , it 's environmentally er more acceptable and so I do n't see any particular erm direct threat this year . |
| 28 | My nephew thinks I stay on the bus right into the estate , but I do n't always . |
| 29 | They 'll be exclamations and things they 're just exclamations that they 've heard I think on television . |
| 30 | ‘ They want me to go on a course , the company runs it , so 's I can demonstrate the new machine . |