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Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] i on the " in BNC.

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1	The walk that defeated me on the way up seemed to take about five minutes coming down , and despite the forced cheery countenance of my friends , I knew I had ruined the day .
2	Thus it is not their sex but their preponderance that moves me on the grounds of statistical fairness to refer to them as she .
3	‘ I can not say why , precisely , but for hundreds , thousands — an infinite number of reasons — you fascinated me , and that fascination encouraged in me the desire to live , something that abandoned me on the death of my sister .
4	Ryan stopped and clapped me on the shoulder .
5	They laughed and clapped me on the back and handed the container round the circle again .
6	Ralemberg smiled , sheathed his dagger and clapped me on the shoulder .
7	He laughed and clapped me on the shoulder .
8	Benjamin grinned and clapped me on the shoulder .
9	They laughed and clapped me on the shoulder .
10	She leaned in and pecked me on the lips .
11	She stripped the bed and lay me on the bed .
12	Father spun round , took three steps towards me and smacked me on the ear .
13	Tremayne came to collect me from the hospital afterwards and told me on the way to Shellerton that Mackie had got through the court ordeal bravely .
14	‘ Oh , come on , Deveraugh , quit messing around and let me on the damn boat . ’
15	This was a big step for me and put me on the road to caddying top tournaments at a very young age .
16	My sister and me are very close , so this woman gave me a giro to go to my sister 's — they took me to the station and put me on the train .
17	As we lifted it , it came out and banged me on the top there , and it knocked me out , knocked me out and I was going to the doctor , but what frightened them all , this was the funny thing , what frightened them all to death , was the fact that I was violently sick you see , and all was bright red you see , and well the fireman passed out , well , do you know what it was ? we had blackcurrant !
18	‘ All right , I 'll take you to Winchester , but you 'll have to get out of the castle on your own and meet me on the road tomorrow . ’
19	A Waaf crossed the room and touched me on the arm .
20	And yet , many years after the war had ended , the man from room four stretched out along arm from the past and touched me on the shoulder .
21	Some said they 'd , they 'd be interested in playing , they knew how to play certain things and others wanted to play others and that 's how we started , and in a matter of a year the new headquarters at er Lowestoft was being opened , by the Dutchess of Kent , and we decided that the band was going to play at that one and you can imagine , and it was all ready and they were playing music , but I 'm not sure what , what quality music it was , and blow me on the week before , the band leader , the conductor decided he could n't play because he had a sprained wrist so we were left without a conductor even , but we managed to get another conductor and we played and I do n't know what it sounded like , but the Dutchess of Kent was very kind , she said the music sounded lovely .
22	She leaned over and kissed me on the cheek .
23	Before we sat down in the restaurant Jamila took me aside and kissed me on the mouth .
24	One of them , the landlord of the pub , got pissed and kissed me on the mouth and talked about the problems of these demarcations — and this is in spite of all the AIDS hysteria .
25	He looked at me and hit me on the shoulder .
26	‘ It blew the clock off the wall and hit me on the head . ’
27	‘ The jet-ski shot out of the water and hit me on the head .
28	He took a stick and hit me on the arm .
29	Once , when we were going up one of the main avenues in the city a lump of thawing snow fell from a tree under which we were passing and hit me on the face .
30	And joining me on the journey was a never-ending line of lumbering construction plant , Brobdingnagian concrete-mixers , and juggernauts laden with rocks and sand .