Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb base] on a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you get the limited edition of Let's Knife , you too can Singalongaknife with the free karaoke CD : I am a sweet little cat/ and I dance on a flying saucer … |
| 2 | I sit on a flat stone in one — the straw thatched roof would just have cleared my head — imagining what was kept in the neat stone alcoves . |
| 3 | I sit on a smooth stone and watch yellow-breasted finches in their dipping flights across the still-warm air . |
| 4 | ‘ I depend on a manual wheelchair for all movement away from my car . |
| 5 | I travel on an Irish passport and in going through Immigration was looked up in a register of , I presume , suspects . |
| 6 | For this purpose I draw on a wide-ranging survey by John Lyons , which carries on naturally from the analysis by James Harris that I have just quoted . |
| 7 | Er I do a plug the alb of the album Midnight Postcards we call it , I 'm plugging that now until Christmas , promoting that er on television and radio , and I er in between I go on a short holiday to Africa and then January I start Alfie until May , and then I think I 'm gon na do a T V movie or a movie in June July , and then in end of July I go to America for four four till the end of November with Alfie . |
| 8 | Er er I think on a bigger job i it it 's perhaps a different story . |
| 9 | I like to understand the meanings of words and always refer to a dictionary when I come on a new word . |
| 10 | I settle on a simple cotton dress , black , and a pair of dangling earrings . |
| 11 | This , in turn , gives your reader a sense of what sort of debate or discussion you see yourself as being engaged in ; and it is this , alongside whatever concrete arguments you make on a given topic , which shapes a reader 's or examiner 's general response to what you write . |
| 12 | If you insist on a public debate then I suggest you give us your views in a more suitable manner . " |
| 13 | if you land on a certain square you can keep it ! |
| 14 | Both were winter occupations and helped keep you warm on a cold day . |
| 15 | Here are some easy rules to remember before you embark on a major scheme : |
| 16 | I 've sometimes made some rather awful mistakes when I have thought first about what I would like to give rather than what my friends would like to receive , so do try to find out before you embark on a special garment . |
| 17 | The money you save on a hyped discount today will probably have to be passed on to the car 's next buyer as well , although discounts you negotiate privately may not be . |
| 18 | But there were some people you know on a smallish farm , they did n't have an oil engine , then they would have to turn the scrapper by hand . |
| 19 | The final point to consider is that if you decide on a joint endowment , your girlfriend may decide to cash in her present endowment . |
| 20 | You operate on a living body . ’ |
| 21 | Most network applications are n't that different from those you use on a standard PC . |
| 22 | The headmistress had tried to insist that she go on a racial awareness course , she who had taught children of different races for over twenty years . |
| 23 | For example if you go on an overland trip trekking in erm South America , you 're clearly looking for something totally different than the person who goes on the sort of typical Club Eighteen to Thirty type holiday . |
| 24 | They are good for your career , if you write on a specialised topic , ie in your case , related to home economics . |
| 25 | Barratt Developments takes £500 off every £25,000 you spend on a new home . |
| 26 | If you work on a seven point five figure , then you get up to twenty seven thousand four hundred and twenty seven hours , erm , before next year , erm , That would leave us with a difficulty I think , because if I were , if we went ahead with the idea of recruiting two people now er we would need to get rid of four of them by , oh four people all together , erm , by er the next financial year , which clearly is not terribly sensible . |
| 27 | Here , we concentrate on a partial equilibrium story and explore how economic agents tackle a rather difficult dynamic decision problem ; in later work we shall embed this story in a market context , but this first step will enable us to isolate certain elements in the market story . |
| 28 | In our response to the English language , both as readers and writers , we depend on an intimate feeling for words and rhythms and innuendoes and images and ironies which can only be achieved by exposure to great English literature . |
| 29 | We embark on a second burn . |
| 30 | I go inside and Chris goes on the top deck and we meet on a quiet corner near the end of the Landing Stage , ’ Maureen said . |