Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] i [verb] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now to me I sound a lot different than I do on tape . |
| 2 | In the torrid heat of the afternoon the village seemed deserted so I hammered on an iron gate . |
| 3 | The arrow tip came free and I lay on my side in frightful suffering weakness , looking down at a sharp black point sticking out from scarlet wool . |
| 4 | Colleagues , this is simply not acceptable and I call on Congress to support this resolution and instruct the E C to raise the matter in the proper government departments . |
| 5 | I 'm not eating half as much as I did on camp and I 'm starving . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ Sometimes I 'm so frustrated that I sit on a rock and shout my head off . |
| 8 | We 've got not X one not X two not X three and I think on your examples you 've actually got them labelled . |
| 9 | ‘ I was fine until I got on the pitch but then it all drained away and the game just passed me by . |
| 10 | ‘ Would it be more comfortable if I sat on your lap ? ’ |
| 11 | On a dry but extremely windy day I never once felt cold as I sat on top of Red Screes for half an hour munching through my packed lunch . |
| 12 | There are times when I go down to the beach at The Pit and I 'm the only surfer down there and I 'm so frustrated with it all that I sit on a rock and shout my head off . |
| 13 | Her nose was cold and she seemed to be perfectly well so I clipped on her lead and carried her outside . |
| 14 | I lit up a Rothmans as I walked jerkily over the park , shivering , the cigarette rushed to my head and I felt better as I drew on it strongly , cupping the end in the palm of my grubby hand . |
| 15 | Do you think I should have lived as long as I have on meat ? ’ |
| 16 | My head becomes cloudy as I lie on my rock peering through the grass at the scene down below . |
| 17 | As far as I can tell , we have some sort of unspoken agreement that I keep quiet about not officially existing in return for being able to do more or less as I like on the island and buy more or less what I like in the town . |
| 18 | By the way , to anybody that 's listening to this , I 'm not really huge but I put on five pounds since I stopped smoking . |
| 19 | I was captured by the Gestapo during the war and was terrified because I had on me a number of incriminating documents , lists of names , maps and so on . |
| 20 | He said you were cross because I sat on Hepzibah 's lap ! ’ |