Example sentences of "[conj] i [vb past] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | On another day we went to St. Anne 's where I played on the sands that were not a patch on those of the South Coast . |
| 2 | Anyway , back to Le Coq d'Or where I lay on the truckle bed and drifted off to sleep . |
| 3 | When I tired of writing press releases on new lube concepts I left Wartberg 's valve business to go to the Angstrom Corporation , where I worked on the launch of a new biscuit , the Pink Finger . |
| 4 | I found the whisky , let myself out of the cellar and locked it , turned all the lights out , gave Mrs McSpadden the bottle , accepted a belated new-year kiss from her , then made my way out through the kitchen and the corridor and the crowded hall where the music sounded loud and people were laughing , and out through the now almost empty entrance hall and down the steps of the castle and down the driveway and down to Gallanach , where I walked along the esplanade — occasionally having to wave or say ‘ Happy New Year ’ to various people I did n't know — until I got to the old railway pier and then the harbour , where I sat on the quayside , legs dangling , drinking my whisky and watching a couple of swans glide on black , still water , to the distant sound of highland jigs coming from the Steam Packet Hotel , and singing and happy-new-year shouts echoing in the streets of the town , and the occasional sniff as my nose watered in sympathy with my eyes . |
| 5 | Not that I planned on dying . |
| 6 | " Since we were n't being shown any buffalo , " replied the senator , smiling easily , " we bagged a muntjac that I spotted on the plain — for one of our smaller groups . " |
| 7 | In addition , it will be eligible for up to £3.66 million under the urban crime fund initiative that I announced on 26 November . |
| 8 | Then we started , in May , to go to Germany — Munchen Gladbach in the Ruhr area on 11/12 May , Happily it was not the Ruhr that I knew on my second tour , a desperate place to be at then . |
| 9 | But I do n't think there were any anyone that I knew on the railway were not against nationalization . |
| 10 | I recall the time that I saw on one of the stalls a bone-handled Scout knife and though only a Wolf-Cub , determined to buy one . |
| 11 | These are the ones that I saw on the |
| 12 | There are other entries describing my passion for clothes , and also my concern to look good — for example , it notes that I insisted on having long hair , despite problems of manageability . |
| 13 | The short brown gym tunic with its blue and gold woven girdle that I wore on my first day at Elmwood was a symbol of entry into a new world of lady-like refinement and academic elitism . |
| 14 | How long ago was it that I looked on the world with such innocent eyes ? |
| 15 | David has done some transcription this week , erm and I 've done a bit , erm and that 's basically , well we 've got one side of , you 've got one side of those lectures to do erm and I 've got some of the recording that I made on Thursday to do and that and that . |
| 16 | The woman from Ty Fach has found the pictures that I made on the rock , and the little woman with her has looked at them . |
| 17 | One question , and that is that I noticed on page three , er , you 've got your revised estimate with effect in ninety four , five , you 've got nothing . |
| 18 | The one that I left on your bed ? |
| 19 | Clichés and superlatives are rampant in the log that I kept on the trip . |
| 20 | At the meeting er , of the Financial Resources Committee that I attended on Wednesday the first thing we discussed was the er the giving so far , up to the end of February from the various provinces and we , by the end of February er , the total was up to thirty thousand pounds less than we required er which could mean that the end of the year it could be a hundred and eighty thousand pounds less than required but er of all the |
| 21 | This is a constraint that I imposed on the DEVELOPMENT procedure . |
| 22 | ‘ I used mainly my green Ibanez that I had on the last tour , but for a Be-Bop solo on Giant Steps I used an Ibanez George Benson . |
| 23 | ‘ We have good discussions , ’ he wrote , ‘ but there are none of the snide comments about ‘ my Russian mates carving up Poland ’ or ‘ my Commie friends getting more than they bargained for ’ when Russia invaded Finland , that I had on the building job . ’ |
| 24 | And , and those are really the two last things that I had on mine , on my list . |
| 25 | from the lorries that I slept on a gradient |
| 26 | ‘ You know , Piper , I was so shit scared during the bombardment that I lay on the floor of that trench and prayed . |
| 27 | My right hon. Friend will recall that I asked on 18 July for an inquiry , and my constituents will welcome what my right hon. Friend has said today . |
| 28 | It will make the five years that I served on the BUILD committee seem worthwhile . |
| 29 | It was half-hidden by mud , so that I trod on its legs before I realized . |
| 30 | If the Prime Minister reads the debate in Committee and sees the praise that I heaped on the Minister during those 12 sittings , the Minister will be next for the chop in the reshuffle , and I would not want that to happen to him . |