Example sentences of "i [verb] [vb pp] on the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Until now , I had looked on the legendary Frankenstein as a sort of piece-meal dabbler in cadavers , a small-time crank who haunted crypts and graves for mismatched eyes and hands . |
| 2 | I 've turned on the other tape there . |
| 3 | 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 . ’ |
| 4 | So for the past year , I 've sat on the Labour Party Trade Union Review Group , a working party set up in the heat of an election defeat , to defuse a potentially damaging row about the strange phenomenon in the party of Labour . |
| 5 | Once I 've settled on the right composition , I invite the sitter back and start serious drawings . |
| 6 | This month I 've concentrated on the standard gauge punchcard models , but there are also finegauge and chunky models . |
| 7 | 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 ? |
| 8 | I have reported on the illegal farming to the CO , and now it 's the turn of the Operations Information Officer . |
| 9 | I have sat on the opposite bank of a river to where a match was being fished and seen barbel breaking line time after time , and the reaction has always been the same : the tying on of a hook of the same size to the same line that barbel had already treated with the contempt it deserved . |
| 10 | I have dwelt on the potential capital market and other outside constraints on the plc in order to provide a standpoint from which to view the constraints operating in those cases which are more our concern . |
| 11 | But to the best of my knowledge , the figures I have quoted on the inner northern are without links . |