Example sentences of "[pron] i [vb base] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | … The horoscope in the Queen prophesies disaster for nearly everyone I know on the 16th of this month ( with the New Moon ) . |
| 2 | But there were some like me I suppose on the other side . |
| 3 | But I I go on sorry Paul |
| 4 | I I object on principal when I go to places saying write your name in the visitors book , so why should you . |
| 5 | Yeah , I think , I I sympathise on what the er , new opposition , because I think , it does take some time to particularly after you 've |
| 6 | And as I I recall on a Saturday morning I used to have to take the er one and sixpence each Saturday back to this House , and they used to issue us a little receipt and I remember my father keeping all those receipts until it was paid off . |
| 7 | Still less can I will the death of someone I love on the calculation that the bereavement will be a rewarding experience . |
| 8 | Yeah somebody I I ca n't remember who it was , I heard somebody I think on the radio or television talking about the , you know it was the beginning of January and they 've already put er hot cross buns in the supermarkets . |
| 9 | I have three upright basses , and I take two on the road with me , plus an old ‘ 64 Precision which I use on a couple of numbers . ’ |
| 10 | We began filming with Richard Phillips on the sidelines ( by which I mean on the floor , through the windows , in the lounge and peering at the man peering through the lens ) , Nigel ( Grubby ) Foster and Michael Hall representing J Walter Thompson , the Agency . |
| 11 | We have three levels of communicative assessments ( covering roughly the first three years of the secondary curriculum ) which I coordinate on behalf of EMREB and the LEAs . |
| 12 | ‘ For the dearth of beer which I foresee on this trip . ’ |
| 13 | I have a 1982 Range Rover engine with Stromberg CD 175 carbs in my 1976 lightweight which I run on LPG or petrol . |
| 14 | Steve mentioned , you know , to put fifteen , twenty pounds a month into it erm and you said well we 'll come back to that later which I think on the face of it is probably er a right way of going about it cos you did n't get interrupted at that stage talking about a specific product so I think that was er that was good . |
| 15 | ‘ Along those basic instrument guidelines , I 've designed a bass for BC Rich called The Punisher , which I have on stage . |
| 16 | But what am I to do when someone asks me for everything I know on Lake Malawi Cichlids ( as happens fairly often ) . |
| 17 | YET everything I read on Labour 's slate seems calculated to cast this precious opportunity away . |
| 18 | Er the erm the environmental health check I think he did discuss it at fantastic length , the question of our public lavatories an an and the savings that can be made and the judgement it came to in the end was a , was a very one I think on the outlook against of what you can reasonably do , erm nevertheless I do gather that erm erm it is no longer necessary under standing orders , for erm amendments to the budget to be self financing because you can move amendments to simply increase the budget and er the amendment that I reserve I suppose , it 's not very much . |
| 19 | And er we 'll have given it him I mean on his on his total cost he 'll be down . |
| 20 | ‘ At the moment Helen is cooking enormous meals for me , but I 've told her I insist on looking after myself once I start working . ’ |
| 21 | She said she 'd have a sherry , a nebulous drink itself , so I poured her as dark and sweet a one as I could find in the little tight tiny rows of sinister bottles , and while she drank it I put on trousers and sweater . |
| 22 | Mine I have on twenty and I have the boiler on well either two or three really . |
| 23 | You know what I hear on on the radio |
| 24 | I can do what I like on these pages , and nobody on earth can prevent me . |
| 25 | I can surely do what I like on my day off , not be reproached if I choose to come home early because I feel tired , and secondly , as I said before , I am not playing games . |
| 26 | because what I say on the phone I make it absolutely clear . |
| 27 | NO MATTER what I say on the Everton debate , I 'm going to get stick . |
| 28 | We also generalize about the taste of the discriminating and set up standards , useful as guides as long as one does not credit them with greater authority than a considered choice which violates them , but not without the suspect motives and tyrannical pretensions of standards in morals ; if you show signs of food-and-wine snobbery , I had better when listening to your recommendations take care to distinguish what I sense on my tongue from an affected taste . |
| 29 | You can say that again , was what I read on Quiggers ' face . |
| 30 | PAMELA : Since I must not say what I think on one hand nor on the other , let me depart your presence . |