Example sentences of "[noun pl] i [verb] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | In both cases I worked on oil on panel which I later fixed to the walls . |
| 2 | I realized , thinking about it afterwards , that they were the numbers of the various different bus-routes I used on my way to school , together with the relevant extracts from their timetables . |
| 3 | If this is so , can you please let me have one of the two data only copies I requested on 14 February ( Ref. 020 ) ? |
| 4 | One of the last cruises I enjoyed on Viking took us south as far as Oban . |
| 5 | Four times I went on long visits to the St Jerome , his finest work . |
| 6 | We held hands going to school every morning , Jimmy and I , and three times I stood on my head for him at Miss Annie 's to prove my love . |
| 7 | But players ' agent Leigh Steinberg counters : ‘ You would n't be numb to it if you got the tearful phone calls I get on Sunday nights and Monday mornings . |
| 8 | He was quite different from the stringy little animals I saw on my daily round . |
| 9 | I remember when they went to Korea and they had to have these overcoats I sewed on hundreds of buttons , about 10 minutes each coat . |
| 10 | This massacre of the innocents I blame on The Silk Plant Company whose trees , plants and flowers are so lifelike , one can be forgiven for doubting the real thing . |
| 11 | I surreptitiously read certain books I found on his shelves . |
| 12 | ‘ Well , they could in theory , but — you know those blocks I put on you ? |
| 13 | Apart from the few noises I made on the path , all I could hear was the very occasional and distant roar of heavy trucks on the road through town . |
| 14 | ROBERT SAM ANSON 's ‘ The Man Who Shot JFK ’ ( February ) was the first of many articles I read on the same subject — but I kept returning to his time and time again . |
| 15 | Unfortunately , this is not false modesty — in two recent lectures I attended on Aids and sociology , neither of the lecturers were truly qualified to talk on these subjects , and the data given were dated and , in parts , incorrect . |
| 16 | Not the least of the many surprises I got on returning home was to find that all that had changed . |
| 17 | During the next two days I advised on industrial relations problems in catering , computers and property services and sent back three more folders of work to my line manager . |
| 18 | The few days I spent on that trip will stay in my mind as some of the most pleasant times I have ever spent . |
| 19 | In about two weeks ' time not even that much , yeah about two weeks I suppose on May the ninth it 's my twentieth birthday . |
| 20 | After three different versions I decided on the plain raincoat shape , tied with a belt . ’ |
| 21 | have n't had those clippers I use on Scott , there 'll be nothing left |
| 22 | And now I look back on the years I wasted on the building sites and I should 've become a policeman ea a lot earlier cos it 's great fun . |
| 23 | Towards the end of my primary school years I went on a holiday with my year to Kent with my friends and many other pupils and teachers . |
| 24 | Probably one of the most horrific things I remember on a cricket field . |
| 25 | ‘ Lotta loved the material things I showered on her , ’ he retorted drily . |
| 26 | ‘ When people laugh at the things I say on stage , they 're laughing with me , not at me , ’ she explained . |
| 27 | Among other things I hit on the idea of writing down a very simple minuet , in order to see whether she could not compose a variation on it . |
| 28 | Well , one of the first things I did on applying for this job was to announce my intention to end the repellent Billy Bullshit column . |
| 29 | The things I pop on the back |
| 30 | ‘ Despite my close relationship with Sonauto I had solid contacts with Honda and I remember the problems I brought on myself . ’ |