Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] i [verb] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | This was a sparrow that I found on the day it was born . |
| 3 | Richard moved about in the bathroom ; the light hurt my eyes so I turned on my stomach and hid my face in the pillow . |
| 4 | Yeah I was away on Tuesday and I trip on Wednesday . |
| 5 | Ward 's voice smashed into my consciousness and I slammed on the brakes . |
| 6 | During those months you 've frequently explained how we would both benefit from informing the literary world of the trick Tristram and I played on it . |
| 7 | Well , it was only a bedsitter and Andrea and I sat on the one divan having a smoke and a glass of the fizzy stuff I always brought her , and I said , ‘ What about slipping between the sheets ’ ? ’ |
| 8 | They put the parcels on the table and tidied the room while Frankie and I sat on the sofa and watched . |
| 9 | ‘ Valerie and I married on impulse . |
| 10 | and go and I tack up the horse and I get on the horse and everything and I do n't mean to say |
| 11 | Gwenellen and I sat on drinking tea while the dining-room was cleared around us . |
| 12 | We were to do it from Friday to Friday but I turned on the tapes on , when was it |
| 13 | ‘ Now — ’ he turned to Sophie ‘ — will you hold it , please , and keep up the tension while I put on the plaster ? |
| 14 | There-has n't been a break since I came on board . |
| 15 | ‘ You rest there a while , Mrs Miller , ’ the girl said with unusual boldness , ‘ and I 'll make you a fresh brew of tea before I start on the drawing room . ’ |
| 16 | I like to understand the meanings of words and always refer to a dictionary when I come on a new word . |
| 17 | I shall also ensure that , in future when I land on unlicensed fields , I land as short and slow as possible . |
| 18 | Such stories come creeping into my mind as I sit on set at Arsenio Hall 's Paramount studio , watching Soul II Soul rehearse . |
| 19 | This broad sketch helped me to explore the crayon 's versatility without using the final painting as a trial piece , it also helped keep the whole composition in mind as I concentrated on a specific detail in the finished painting . |
| 20 | co-ordinates up , erm , you know , I have n't yet had contact from er no , I thought I 'd been given a new name , but , no I have n't had con any contact from my new co-ordinator yet , erm , but that was n't in my mind when I spoke on Thursday about Christmas , perhaps I ought to pursue that one in time for the next meeting and see what 's happening in South Africa and are getting it in South America for . |
| 21 | It would probably add to the complications in my life but it would probably lessen the hours that I have on my own , though God knows , I do n't do too badly . |
| 22 | This is a constraint that I imposed on the DEVELOPMENT procedure . |
| 23 | I spend more time on my face and skin than I do on my hair . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Erm , I pressed yes for having liking my own body , and I do , erm but I also like the slight improvements that I make on it like erm my hair |
| 26 | 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 |
| 27 | Er I just ringing through to say that I heard your er broadcast last week in respect of Carnfield Hall and I went on Saturday afternoon a gentleman named Hugh rang you up . |
| 28 | My wife Eva and I live on the northern-most tip of the island of Barbados where we run the Pirates Tavern and the tourist centre of ‘ Animal Flower Cave ’ . |
| 29 | But it 's also fears that the Party itself is becoming too radical too , they always want to control two elements and I mean on the last page , point number sixteen it says that how that erm tt that how that the Communist Party members ought to refrain from securing undue benefits by taking advantage of their leading position . |
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