Example sentences of "i [verb] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As he wrote years later in his long unpublished memoirs , ‘ hazard or Providence made me knock on the door of the Hôtel Terminus of the Gare du Nord . ’ |
| 2 | He adds sadly : ‘ It 's impossible for me to go on a quiet date as I get recognised everywhere and asked for autographs . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ They want me to go on a course , the company runs it , so 's I can demonstrate the new machine . |
| 4 | No I 've made , it 's made an awful lot of difference to me the New Town I mean we 've got and the Council are very , very good to us , I mean we ca n't say they 're not , they 've had a , I 've had the gas central heating put in , I 've had a shower put in since I 've been here and I mean they do they look after us well , the only thing I 'm upset about that I 've put off the ambulance to go to Leah Manning on a Wednesday because they want me to go on a Tuesday and I can not go on a Tuesday because I have my friend come down which does all odd jobs for me you know , on a Tuesday dear and I just can not so I had to see Mr is it ? |
| 5 | When did you ever know me to go on a diet ? |
| 6 | They 're telling me to go on the stage and act , but I ca n't do it , it 's the one thing Mum and Dad are dead set against . ’ |
| 7 | Nobody told me to become a stand-up comedian and nobody told me to go on the fucking telly . ’ |
| 8 | The idea was for me to go on the high-wire sixty feet above ground — on the shoulders of a Czechoslovakian circus performer . |
| 9 | It 's why Uncle Vernon wanted me to go on the stage . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Permit me to rap on the table and murmur ‘ Pass ! ’ |
| 15 | Do you want me to come on the nineteenth as well ? |
| 16 | Th they told me to default on the mortgage that I 'm paying for the property that my wife lives in , because the assessment does n't take into account that I |
| 17 | I asked on a hunch . |
| 18 | Oh mind , it was quite light , it was n't and I saddled on the path and I did n't , I do n't take chances . |
| 19 | DNase I footprints on the VZV gene 62 promoter . |
| 20 | Near a tombstone-memorial by the wayside , I gazed on a crowd of boys . |
| 21 | And now I look back on the years I wasted on the building sites and I should 've become a policeman ea a lot earlier cos it 's great fun . |
| 22 | I had become interested in the Sudan itself after reading Samuel Baker 's books , but at first my interest was largely in the wild life and the big-game hunting in the Southern Sudan ; then at Eton I chanced on The River War , Winston Churchill 's vivid account of Kitchener 's campaign to reconquer the Sudan from the Khalifa . |
| 23 | Could you please tell me : a ) how much I made on the deal ; b ) year of manufacture and finally ; c ) why is the thing so rare ? |
| 24 | I made on the deal , but when I switched it on my first thought was : uh-oh . |
| 25 | The woman from Ty Fach has found the pictures that I made on the rock , and the little woman with her has looked at them . |
| 26 | Apart from the few noises I made on the path , all I could hear was the very occasional and distant roar of heavy trucks on the road through town . |
| 27 | Er , he did after a while because there just are n't that many people who run round the N E C who look me in July , but erm , there were conventions earlier in the year , but it , it , you know , I got , actually a very reasonable size of contract out of this man , from that thirty second note I made on the calendar . |
| 28 | I flash on the special branch : sleepless interrogations in windowless cells . |
| 29 | The revenue settlement is matched by the substantial local government capital settlement for ninety four five which I announced on the thirtieth of November . |
| 30 | I pounced on the quotation because she had no right , no right at all to burden me with her doubts , after a year , and after everything . |