Example sentences of "[noun sg] on the [noun] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | So if you do ferret with snow on the ground I recommend that you use purse nets only . |
| 2 | Anyway I said to our Pam well you have been brought up to do things like that and not only that if I found a pound on the floor I 'd pick it up that 's different . |
| 3 | Have you seen that advert on the telly I love it with George the boxer ? |
| 4 | Yet such as it is , what I have witnessed has been enough to throw a strong light on the materials I have used , and , for me , has made the dry bones live . |
| 5 | Well to be quite clear I 'm prepared to allow debate on that motion if you wish it to be if the majority of you wish there to be a fight , but if the majority wish the er to pass the vote on the amendment I will take that , do you wish to . |
| 6 | If it had been impossible for one reason or another to use a boat on the water I would have done the best I could with a plummet and noted what I could see from the banks . |
| 7 | ‘ And , if I may say so , my suspicions are that you 'll be making a considerably better living on the salary I pay you than you would have made working for yourself … ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Listen , Maurice , as I say I am now playing the lead in this show , and I think it is about time you sorted out some deal on the money I get for doing it . ’ |
| 9 | After the agony of the scene on the station I felt that there was no-one in the world on my side . |
| 10 | I asked to keep her talking , but I was thinking of the scribble on the photocopies I 'd found . |
| 11 | Eduardo took me out to a nearby restaurant on the Tuesday evening , saying he was too lazy to cook and that he does not often nowadays have any or many chances to take women out ( ! ) , so in return on the Wednesday I got food to make up the rest of a meal using two wild ducks had generously given me to roast , and we had the second one cold on the Thursday after my second meeting . |
| 12 | ‘ If I went to manage a team on the continent I would still do exactly the same things I did at QPR . |
| 13 | From my place on the gallery I could keep a watch on Claire 's door and on what was happening in the hall below . |
| 14 | ‘ If someone came and pinched my bum on the escalator I 'd k-i-c-k him as far as I could down the escalator , ’ Topaz responded with gusto . |
| 15 | There 's more transport on the road I expect . |
| 16 | Er well I do n't know , is n't that , they 're maisonettes , they 've got that big eye on the front I do n't I do n't know if you , I do n't know if it 's still there , I mean |
| 17 | But the main point on the comparison I think here Chair , is that your homes are not expensive , when compared with similar provision and there 's still some unevenness in terms of funding between your homes and the independent sector . |
| 18 | and left the f the file on the windowsill I hope he pulls in and lets people go past . |
| 19 | There 's not room on the form I do n't think |
| 20 | My first day on the works I was sent off to whitewash a shed all by myself . |
| 21 | After a sharp deep draught on the inhaler I was horrified to experience a disagreeable and wriggly sensation somewhere in the centre of my chest . |
| 22 | ‘ Ca n't you understand that he 's the last person on the staff I want to see upset ? ’ |
| 23 | Unlike Mike , however , I shall not turn my back on the game I love . |
| 24 | Looking at the menu on the wall I realised how hungry I was , yet I had no means of buying anything to eat ; I had no money and so had no idea of where my next meal would be coming from . |
| 25 | Yes , before you all write in , I do know that by pressing the yellow button on the machine I will be told when I need to knit with the main carriage , but ( hand on heart ) how many of you have got carried away and done one too many strokes with the lace carriage ? |
| 26 | Somebody mind you was on about Torbay this morning on the radio I think it was saying that there were so many complaints and nurses are under such great stress . |
| 27 | I would like to think that the glamour and the inevitable aspects of artificiality in my job have never made the slightest impact on the way I live . |
| 28 | I just want to read three anecdotes which , and I mean I 've given you sort of odd statistics and the advantage of anecdotes is that they actually put flesh on the bones I think , and they really give you a sense of what it meant to be er a peasant in China in the nineteen thirties . |
| 29 | He was exhausted by his debate on the church I do n't well probably because nobody else turned up . |
| 30 | I , I do n't know how we 're gon na get Bob 's fishing rod on the train I 'm a little bit worried about it but erm |