Example sentences of "i [vb base] [adv prt] on [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 When we 're in the flat she says she 'll make some coffee , and I sit down on a chair with my carrier by my side .
2 I sit down on the floor next to Marie and look round .
3 I sit down on the edge of the chair and put my arm around her .
4 I sit down on the bench and look up at the sky .
5 Now that the troops are gone , I sit back on the chaise-longue , that Japanese fish-tailed thing , and close the fan beside me , blocking the street and the living-room .
6 She laughs and throws the duvet at me , and I sit back on the sofa-bed as she slips out into the hall .
7 They are pulled away impatiently by Bill , so I sit back on the side lines .
8 Yes I pick up on the comment from the , Notts are n't as in control as they were , after first Tony and then Paul got their names on the score sheet in each case for the first time this season , both with bristling finishing efforts and you 'd be a harsh critic indeed who did n't agree that Pisa deserved to pull one back because they played some fine attacking football , and it was the player who 's caused most danger , who 's wearing the number eleven that moved across to the right hand side , got clear of the defence , pulled back an absolutely brilliant clot cross and in the middle who 'd missed an earlier header on fifteen minutes to make it one one , did n't miss on this occasion .
9 And it is , I put up on the screen there where the depots are so they know what they 're looking for , and I say , now what I want you to is tell me where the depots are .
10 I lie down on the bench and try and make myself comfy .
11 What they had said really ‘ took seed ’ a few months later , when I set off on a world trip for seven months , and during that time the friend I was with , Ella , decided a few times , in different parts of the world , to lose some weight and tone up .
12 Then , at 7pm , I set off on the drive south to San Francisco .
13 I turn up on the set with twenty pages of notes .
14 ‘ I always wear a helmet when I go out on a bike , but I think we might have to make helmets a fashion accessory to get more children to wear them . ’
15 I know how busy they are when I come off the road off a night , and I know busy because they are before I go out on a morning , and erm , it seems like they 're never likely to get stuck from time to time though .
16 On a dinner time when I go out on a dinner time I leave it on .
17 I go out on a blitz and then tend to spend nothing for months .
18 For me it 's just feel and the longer I stay out on the range , the more damage I do !
19 Well she l she lived I think up on the hill above here .
20 When , sometimes , I think back on the beauty of life on a South Seas island , I start to wonder how fate could possibly have propelled me from the rain and bedraggled leafless winter trees of England to such distant enchantment .
21 I move in on a twenty-kilogram monster , all bark and paws .
22 Apparently , the tow given to old whalers by a harpooned whale was known as the ‘ Nantucket Sleighride ’ ; I haul back on the line , release the snow hook and take a similar ride .
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