Example sentences of "[conj] i [verb] on [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then we started , in May , to go to Germany — Munchen Gladbach in the Ruhr area on 11/12 May , Happily it was not the Ruhr that I knew on my second tour , a desperate place to be at then . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The one that I left on your bed ? |
| 4 | I could smell the citronella that I put on my skin to ward off the mosquitoes and feel the breeze beginning to rise from the river . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'd like to substitute Paul Littlejohn for myself in the power of attorney that I hold on your behalf , Elinor . |
| 6 | It was half-hidden by mud , so that I trod on its legs before I realized . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Erm , I ought to know this , but it 's not the sort of thing that I have on my fingertips . |
| 9 | Better than I had on my twenty-first . ’ |
| 10 | Another , making a joke out of his poverty , hit a good drive and sighed , ‘ That 's gone further than I went on my holidays . ’ |
| 11 | I spend more time on my face and skin than I do on my hair . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | One evening I visited her but found she was out , so I waited on her balcony , smoking a cigar . |
| 16 | Richard moved about in the bathroom ; the light hurt my eyes so I turned on my stomach and hid my face in the pillow . |
| 17 | Her nose was cold and she seemed to be perfectly well so I clipped on her lead and carried her outside . |
| 18 | ‘ Do n't be stupid , ’ I snap , and I suck on my Jameson 's . |
| 19 | I had a fair idea as to who had done it , and I passed on my suspicions about so-and-so and so-and-so , and asked for something to be done about it . |
| 20 | I felt a bit shy , going back to school , and I hovered on their doorstep thinking what to say . |
| 21 | He was lying with his legs across the path , and I fell on my knees beside him . |
| 22 | Companion of my heart , I trust in God that all we venture here bear fruit and I count on your prayers too , for the Lord must incline his will when such a one as you petitions him . |
| 23 | We sat after lunch on Monday in his room ; or rather he sat chubbily at his desk , living up to his nickname , spooning Hymettus honey out of a jar and telling me of the flesh and fleshpots he had bought himself in Athens ; and I lay on his bed , only half listening . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | My husband Julian and I went on our honeymoon to Yugoslavia — annual inflation ran at 350 per cent . |
| 26 | Continuing with the photo-copies that our Chairman , Richard Newcombe and I secured on our visit to the National Railway Museum at York , in this issue of the Journal I wish to concentrate on the correspondence between S. H. Pearce-Higgins and W. Roberts , who was the Receiver/Manager of the Bishop 's Castle Railway . |
| 27 | Everyone put on the whole uniform including the grey raincoat on top , and I put on my raincoat also , I packed Tommy 's spare garments and my own clothes into the holdall , and was ready . |
| 28 | If you want to get personal then two can play at that , and I swear on my lifelong friendships with the late Mrs Gandhi , Brian Clough and Michael Parkinson that I will burn my brand new membership card of the NUJ on the square at Headingley if you can name me the full Yorkshire team you 're chairman of . |
| 29 | And I insist on their recognition . |
| 30 | I have always been fascinated by Magritte 's work ; I have met all his friends , and I worked on his archives for six years . |