Example sentences of "[noun] i [verb] [verb] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a fruitless hour I decided to go on the stick . |
| 2 | And of course I had to go on the carpet about that , for laughing . |
| 3 | I did my best to produce an attractive synopsis , embellishing it with some of the sketches I had made on the spot . |
| 4 | Before I go any further , I should tell you that the briefing I had received on the field was as follows : 1000 metres grass , obstructions at both ends , wind sock on the northerly edge . |
| 5 | My peg was on a gravel point , it looked perfect for the stick float but as I was fishing for a good weight I opted to start on the feeder . |
| 6 | In this chapter I want to concentrate on the response of community educators , particularly their reaction to the problems and issues facing the working class . |
| 7 | In this chapter I have concentrated on the image of the inner city as a battle-ground — a battleground on which opposing forces , ideas , and values can be identified . |
| 8 | But the effect I 've had on the straight world , the fact that they come to me and they feel comfortable , half knowing that maybe I 've been involved in … what to them is alternative sexuality , is a positive thing . ’ |
| 9 | Do you remember that Saturday I remember sitting on the stairs , Mark , look what I 've seen in your paper ! |
| 10 | oh tell mummy I want to play on the bikes |
| 11 | I had the Count send him my plans for the work I wanted to do on the buildings . |
| 12 | See the arrow I 've painted on the ground ? |
| 13 | No , but I have been stoically quoting your figures to defend Leeds against the baiting I 've had on the basis of the MOTD footage that everyone seems to have seen . |
| 14 | It was then that I saw that the folder I 'd left on the coffee table was gone . |
| 15 | The correspondence I have received on the subject shows that members of the pension scheme are appreciative of what they consider to be a good scheme which is advantageous to their interests . |
| 16 | So was Malta 's Harmony I while working on the Kharg-Sirri shuttle , a run on which Iraqi aircraft particularly concentrated . |
| 17 | It would n't be a case of oh Si Helen I 've heard on the grapevine would it ? |
| 18 | If the filly did go off her legs I should have to start cutting into her windpipe , but I put the thought away from me , For the moment I had to depend on the adrenalin . |
| 19 | The clerk whose job I took went on the district as a relief clerk and later relief Stationmaster . |
| 20 | Up to this point I have concentrated on the way in which non-verbal behaviour helps us , as Austin would say , ‘ to do things with words ’ . |
| 21 | Continuing with the photo-copies that our Chairman , Richard Newcombe and I secured on our visit to the National Railway Museum at York , in this issue of the Journal I wish to concentrate on the correspondence between S. H. Pearce-Higgins and W. Roberts , who was the Receiver/Manager of the Bishop 's Castle Railway . |
| 22 | I took out the piece of parchment I had found on the corpse . |
| 23 | For the last few years I have sat on the sidelines watching bolt-protected climbing mushrooming throughout the USA , Europe and , not least , Britain : in quarries , but also , let's be completely truthful , on natural crags . |
| 24 | ‘ In the 22 years I have sat on the North Eastern Co-op 's board I can not recall a year in which so many negative factors have combined . |
| 25 | According to a picture I had seen on the wall of the Royal Hotel , this Priory had been founded by King Felin O'Connor of Connaught , whose burial place it became . |
| 26 | This little erm Sanyo I 've got on the bench in here , I think we 'll just keep that for spares then . |
| 27 | He did not recognize me but I knew he was the gentleman I had met on the stairs when visiting Miss Havisham . |
| 28 | The name I 've got on the manifest is for a Mr George Nixon . |
| 29 | But to the best of my knowledge , the figures I have quoted on the inner northern are without links . |
| 30 | This is the most useful facility I have known on the system . |