Example sentences of "i [verb] on the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nobody told me to become a stand-up comedian and nobody told me to go on the fucking telly . ’ |
| 2 | He handed me a toffee , climbed into his car , beckoned me to sit on the other front seat for a few minutes , and removed the celluloid sidescreen to give us more fresh air . |
| 3 | Obviously , the volume of data by making notes and by taperecording that I acquired made it sensible for me to concentrate on the one school rather than the other . |
| 4 | Unfortunately , in the absence of all the facts , it is not possible for me to comment on the individual case , nor would I wish to do so in a public forum . |
| 5 | We are currently in discussion with the TECs about their budget and I do not think that it would be appropriate for me to comment on the particular circumstances of my hon. Friend 's local TEC . |
| 6 | Do you want me to come on the nineteenth as well ? |
| 7 | I flash on the special branch : sleepless interrogations in windowless cells . |
| 8 | The revenue settlement is matched by the substantial local government capital settlement for ninety four five which I announced on the thirtieth of November . |
| 9 | Erm but I mean on the other hand if you start trying to develop your criteria , and I 'd go out and look at Botton Village and look at the Richmond Fellowship or something , |
| 10 | Well I du n no , I mean on the one hand in nine in nineteen forty five I think it was , they were saying you know well in order to do , have s s s successful land reform you need three conditions , they said the same thing in nineteen forty eight , they said you need this , this , this and then we have to be militarily secure but then in nineteen forty six they 're saying no , do n't worry about it , just get the land reform sorted out , just do it . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | I do n't mean just on Road incidentally , I mean on the whole range of traffic calming demands . |
| 13 | I mean on the seaward side ? ’ |
| 14 | But I have to confess that what I save on the weedless swings , I lose on the rampant roundabouts . |
| 15 | Now when er when I was coming down er , coming from , I lived on the Green then , to go to work , we used to met er a person and we used to call her Rosie . |
| 16 | I sit on the lower deck with my soft holdall heavy at my feet , behind two laughing women from Jamaica swapping advice about knitting . |
| 17 | I sit on the first island to photograph the kayaks heading north into the last of the sun , then refloat again to join them . |
| 18 | I sit on the wooden floor for a moment to gather my strength , also to decide exactly where I should take the relics to dispose of them . |
| 19 | All was going well until I knelt on the front overlap . |
| 20 | ( Before I went to work in the morning I would take a bucket of water and a scrubbing brush and deal with the black-and-white chequered marble shop doorstep — in my memory it is a glittering affair , although cold on frosty mornings — because at that time of the day the rising sun often shone full down the High Street where we lived and on me , as I knelt on the cobbled pavement plying my scrubbing-brush . ) |
| 21 | I knelt on the wooden floor in the East Yorkshire winter praying , " Dear God if you exist let me be warmed . " |
| 22 | I knelt on the top step and poked my head through , near the bottom of the gap … |
| 23 | Very , very quickly , can I just say , that in the er , consultat in the , in the work I did in the , which led to the production of the report , and the many , many people I talked to , some of whom I , I see around the table , I found on the one hand , ample evidence throughout the county authorities , the health authority , the district councils , and the voluntary sector , of much evidence of recognition of improved collaboration between agencies in delivery of community care in Shropshire . |
| 24 | I slip on the red shoes and have a look in the mirror . |
| 25 | MAX : I sleep on the right-hand side of my particular bed . |
| 26 | He was a most able officer , and I was able to hand over this part of the work to him with confidence , while I concentrated on the current activities of the department . |
| 27 | But when I concentrated on the postage-stamp-sized photographs bearing his name that had started to appear , I could no longer be certain that he and The Fat Controller were one and the same . |
| 28 | Checking a positive climb and flicking up the quick-retracting gear I concentrated on the slow process of building speed , getting the flaps in at 130 and maintaining a gentle increase in height with steady acceleration to 170 knots , when the nose can be raised for 3,000 fpm to show on the VSI as she really starts to go . |
| 29 | I had a feeling it would be for the best , I said , when I stopped on the hard shoulder that day . |
| 30 | I banged on the front door for ten minutes , getting colder and colder . |