Example sentences of "i [verb] on [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | May I expound on my answer ? |
| 2 | And er we 'll have given it him I mean on his on his total cost he 'll be down . |
| 3 | I mean on our , on our plan we have before us we have no there erm indeed of er , of er of |
| 4 | As a kid I dwelled on his every move ’ . |
| 5 | Irina is right to say that when I lived on my own I was a lonely man . |
| 6 | At first , I lived on my wits . |
| 7 | And I insist on their recognition . |
| 8 | When she returned she said , ‘ Did I tread on your foot on the way out ? ’ |
| 9 | Shall I tread on his toes for you ? ’ |
| 10 | One of the men he approached was Spurgeon who gave him this characteristic response : ‘ I sit on my own gate , and whistle my own tunes , and am quite content . ’ |
| 11 | After that , I sit on our front step and wait for the ambulance . |
| 12 | I concentrate on your face and say something back to you . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | I passed on your news . |
| 15 | ‘ By the way , I checked on their story for the night Sir Ralph died ; both Sir Fulke and Rastani were absent from the Tower and there are people who can guarantee their whereabouts . ’ |
| 16 | Next , I checked on his movements on Fridays . |
| 17 | Before our friend had finished telling us his news I got on my bicycle and rode to the cemetery as fast as I could . |
| 18 | I got on my bike and went back to the house a bit recklessly , shooting through puddles on the path and taking the Jump — a bit on the path where there 's a long downhill on a dune and then a short uphill where it 's easy to leave the ground — at a good forty kilometres per hour , landing with a muddy thump that nearly had me in the whin bushes and left me with a very sore bum , making me want to keep opening my mouth with the feeling of it . |
| 19 | It 's erm — and another thing , I was delighted when John Dreyfus in the Type ninety lecture used these terms of Charles Peignot called typo lecture and typo visuel , which I mis-spelt on my closing slide ! |
| 20 | Natalie was almost as excited as me when I tried on my Brownie uniform . |
| 21 | I was drunk as a pig and insisted on stamping on every bloody spider I found on my way back to our chamber . |
| 22 | I found on my desk a little sticker which states ’ Vote for the Arts ’ , issued by the National Campaign for the Arts . |
| 23 | ‘ Only from the business card I found on my desk , ’ the other replied , his English excellent . |
| 24 | We were originally going to do weekly measurements , but I found on my own monitoring that you wo n't get much variation . |
| 25 | I surreptitiously read certain books I found on his shelves . |
| 26 | I sleep on my own in a big double bed in a big room with a view of the sea . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ So , since work yielded neither stimulation nor serious reward , I concentrated on my hobby . |
| 28 | I report on its progress ( or lack of it ) , that is all . |
| 29 | I sucked on her love like a leech . |
| 30 | I sucked on my hollow reed for a while , staring up at the sky . |