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

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1 That was a nice picture — Marie liked it I think , cos she did n't mind me sticking it on the wall .
2 ‘ Let me congratulate you on your powers of recovery .
3 ‘ My dear friend , if you will allow me to call you that , ’ he cried , shaking both my hands , ‘ let me congratulate you on your fortune !
4 Keith Lascelles took my hand , squeezing it reassuringly as he led me across the stage , up the wide stairway dividing the orchestra , and left me to arrange myself on the rostrum .
5 Let me update you on my social security saga .
6 When I caught up , Ann was still obviously very distressed and I asked what on earth was wrong .
7 I waylaid him on his arrival .
8 I flung it on the open ledger on the table .
9 The process in this case did not reach its logical conclusion because Mr. Thorpe — I commend him on his ingenuity , a quality with which the nation knows he is amply endowed — found a way to secure the necessary care .
10 As I wiped them on my pinafore Mr Vulcan asked what was wrong with me .
11 Mind , when I read their story on erm I read them on Thursday afternoon and I said , right we better practise for nursery
12 I laid her on the conc you know , like the , the step out
13 I laid it on them over there in Washington — I mean , but hard .
14 The situation called for some drastic action and so I laid it on the line ; either they won this game or I would resign .
15 Folding the poem , I laid it on the table .
16 I laid it on soil ; the shoulders managed
17 I laid it on the floor and I was hit in the back .
18 ‘ I speak with Michael Odell inside ten minutes , or I raise him on the open line , ’ said Quinn carefully .
19 At the end of the day I thought it looked very attractive , but whether it will catch the eye of a customer when I display it on the craft stall is another matter .
20 I met her on a colectivo here in the capital , standing face to face in the rush-hour crowds .
21 I met her on my way to Weatherbury , but I did n't know then who she was . ’
22 I 've got a potential describing Inverness I met her on the train the other day , a friend of my , he says
23 I met him on my last visit to Glasgow recently : a jolly , likeable man today .
24 He 's here all right — I met him on the shore two nights ago .
25 As Brian Clough told me when I met him on the top of the Little Elm bus earlier this season — we were both going to check out Little Elm Intaflora 's young Dutch forward , Kylie Van Der Graaf — ‘ Sadly , young man , football is like a football . ’
26 Then I nearly fell over when Hywel walked in because I met him on the mountain and he gave me the eye . ’
27 I MET HIM ON HOLIDAY
28 I met him on my first day at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art in 1965 .
29 I met him on holiday .
30 I met him on his way back here to report … ’
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