Example sentences of "[conj] i [verb] [verb] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although I 'd rung on the Thursday and they said his kidneys were failing , it still came as a shock when they rang on the Saturday at 9.30 in the morning to say he 'd died . |
| 2 | I switched increasingly to erm political history , then I moved from economic and political history to social history , to some extent linking the two , and increasingly over the last ten years , partly through the work that I 've done on the history of broadcasting , and on twentieth century history , I think I would say that I would now be a cultural historian . |
| 3 | Just on a point of er clarification , the villages or settlements I should say , that I 've indicated on the er plan which is included within my statement , er is actually derived from the Selby rural areas local plan , which defines settlements and I believe the County Council have used a similar erm listing of erm settlements within that those two sectors for their own exercise when they looked at this particular subject er criteria . |
| 4 | I got there first , ordered a Scotch , and opened the evening paper that I 'd bought on the way . |
| 5 | And the two things that I had noticed on the first day were still left hanging there … |
| 6 | Yes the point that I wanted to raise on the table we have resolved . |
| 7 | The chapters that follow seek to outline the ways in which I have pursued and developed my own management skills , and the lessons that I have learnt on the way . |
| 8 | Such discussions with the Home Office that I have had on the question have made it clear that when their guidelines to the police are finally formulated the limited use of investigative hypnosis will be exclusively in the hands of trained and independent professionals such as clinical psychologists . |
| 9 | Is the Leader of the House aware that , in the past four days , since we returned from the Christmas recess , I have heard more from Conservative Members about Labour party policy than I have heard on the national executive committee in 12 months ? |
| 10 | I guessed I had no more than four minutes before he got back to base , so I began to count on the old one-and-one , two-and-two , and so on principle in order to concentrate on the job in hand without looking at my watch . |
| 11 | The headmaster was getting a little too close to the bone for my liking , so I decided to go on the defensive . |
| 12 | But then I started to think , well at this rate I am going to get pregnant , so I decided to go on the Pill , and that was the month I fell for Lucy . |
| 13 | Ca n't decide whether I 've imagined the eels or not , so I decide to sleep on the matter . |
| 14 | Once I 've settled on the right composition , I invite the sitter back and start serious drawings . |
| 15 | I ended up having a fight with him , he broke my arm and I got hit on the head . |
| 16 | That second night in the porch was enough and I resolved to move on the following day , whatever happened . |
| 17 | You 've been very kind , and I 'm good and dry now , and I 've slept on the boat many 's the time before , and in worse nights than this . |
| 18 | One of these blows actually ricked my neck and I had to lie on the floor beneath the table until it was okay to come up again . |
| 19 | Faith , her boyfriend and I waited to ride on the same flight as the box . |
| 20 | My scope here is necessarily limited , and I propose to concentrate on the relationships between the political parties and the social collectivities which have furnished their support blocs . |
| 21 | The wood-cuts were on display at the Rick Institute in Kilmanock , and I happened to visit on the day of the General Election . |
| 22 | A separate analysis that Marie-Louise Newell and I have done on the employment histories of women born in 1946 looked for evidence of occupational downgrading associated with childbearing ( Newell and Joshi , 1986 ; Joshi and Newell , 1987 ) . |
| 23 | I 'm just back from the railway station , where I have deposited in Left Luggage a small brown parcel containing one Smith & Wesson and two dozen rounds , and I have detoured on the way back to buy three more shirts , some underpants and some socks . |
| 24 | Cutting that over the numbers had me down and stopped well before the first intersection , a distance of around 400 metres , and I could have done much better if I 'd heaved on the brakes , which are single Goodyear discs with excellent stopping power . |
| 25 | You know if I 'd gone on the I said hello look here 's a mad man |
| 26 | If I had landed on the ski-track , which was hard-packed and icy , I 'd have probably broken my neck , but I seemed to swerve off centre and thus landed in a soft snow-bank and lay panting , stunned and breathless , for a few minutes . |
| 27 | If I had stayed on the pitch who knows what might have happened . |
| 28 | The interest of the BBC 's Heart of the Matter was triggered by Newsnight and that , in turn , caught the attention of a researcher on Wogan , Mandy Nixon , who asked if I wanted to appear on the programme . |
| 29 | When I was due to arrive in Tasmania to stay with a geologist colleague , Penny Green , you can imagine that I was n't too displeased when I was asked if I minded going on the odd fishing trip as the whole family was ’ into ’ it ! |
| 30 | Supposing I had said on the stairs , do what you like with me , but do n't send me away ? |