Example sentences of "[subord] i [verb] 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 | exactly where I stand on this ! |
| 6 | Tom then hit his tee-shot in a fury and he struck it further than I go on holidays . |
| 7 | I dropped down from the loch only to find that the terrain was considerably steeper than I recalled on the way up , although the compass said I was doing fine . |
| 8 | Better than I had on my twenty-first . ’ |
| 9 | Another , making a joke out of his poverty , hit a good drive and sighed , ‘ That 's gone further than I went on my holidays . ’ |
| 10 | I have said a good deal more on Government Back Benches than I have on Opposition Back Benches and very often it has been what has been done on Government Back Benches that has saved even Labour Governments from some of their follies . |
| 11 | I spend more time on my face and skin than I do on my hair . |
| 12 | It 's because I like the way the note A sounds on the top string better than I do on the second , but I like A on the second string better than I do on the third , and so on . |
| 13 | It 's because I like the way the note A sounds on the top string better than I do on the second , but I like A on the second string better than I do on the third , and so on . |
| 14 | It 's the people , I mean the people in this room know a great deal more people than I do on my own for example . |
| 15 | Someone once said he 'd have known me anywhere by the voice but he 'd have passed me by in the street on account I look much better in person than I do on the telly . |
| 16 | Now to me I sound a lot different than I do on tape . |
| 17 | ‘ Firstly , I want to play better on our next record than I did on this one ; that always has to be a major goal for me . |
| 18 | But I tended to do much better on tests and examinations than I did on coursework , so I passed the eleven-plus and got a free place at the local St. Albans school . |
| 19 | Since I was n't in a position to return the Parsons ' hospitality , I felt an obligation to provide conversational value for money , so I embarked on a series of anecdotes about my time abroad , some true , all exaggerated , a few plain invention . |
| 20 | I had already done a couple of jumpers for a largish lady , so I embarked on the back of the third . |
| 21 | The rotting wooden walkway looked too perilous to risk any injury so I continued on my way to the shed , now some seventy or eighty yards away . |
| 22 | When I took it off afterwards , my hair was a mess , so I put on a turban or tied in back with a band , which is what I do every day . |
| 23 | I was naked , so I put on sunglasses and a Led Zeppelin record and I did a little Zeppelin dance . ’ |
| 24 | I was warm and sleepy but my master kept haranguing me : compliance seemed the easiest way out so I put on my boots , grabbed my cloak and accompanied him down to the Templar chapel . |
| 25 | As the Wasp Junior is supercharged you do not just push the lever to the stop for fear of bursting it , so I relied on Tony to limit the movement of my left hand , revelling in the swelling thunder of the fifteen-litre engine and the surging acceleration as the nose reared under its power . |
| 26 | There were racetrack express buses , I found , going from the city to the Downs , so I went on one at about six o'clock and strolled around at ground level looking for some way of conveying to Bill Baudelaire the water samples which were now individually wrapped inside the nondescript plastic carrier . |
| 27 | There was no time to contact him , so I came on the off-chance . |
| 28 | One evening I visited her but found she was out , so I waited on her balcony , smoking a cigar . |
| 29 | Toshack was out of work at the time , so I passed on the offer . |
| 30 | ‘ I 'm frightened of horses — but I was aware of all the rumours about me being ‘ difficult ’ to work with , so I got on the horse to avoid causing any problems . |