Example sentences of "i [vb past] [pers pn] [verb] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I realized she relied on the extra money . |
| 2 | I found him sitting on the bench to the side of the house gazing out over Backyards . |
| 3 | I noted him working on the machinery while we were waiting to ascend . |
| 4 | ‘ Well , I imagined him standing on a wee planet about the size of a football — ’ |
| 5 | I heard him talking on the radio , in which he said he 'd tried several methods of winning on the football pools and in the end decided that the easiest thing to do was to put in the same numbers each week and so he was not exercising any skill in deciding whether one pair of teams were likely to enter into a score draw than another pair , but he just trusted that , say , number thirty seven would turn up as a score draw this week . |
| 6 | Again as if she read my thoughts , she said : " After I heard you talking on the phone , I nipped out and bought this — you can pay me back , if you like , Mother 's ruin . |
| 7 | I watched them decide on the wrong place and paint the first mark carefully round a sapling 's trunk . |
| 8 | I watched it rise on the air currents , becoming a marker for the height I was at ; the space I looked across . |
| 9 | As soon as I rounded the line of fitted units screening off the kitchen I saw her slumped on the floor in the corner , huddled up as though against the cold . |
| 10 | I saw him focus on a boat which lay almost stationary beneath its single sail , fairly close to shore . |
| 11 | I saw him like on the right , on the path and I goes I goes what you do I goes gon na be sick . |
| 12 | ‘ I saw them spooning on the beach , ’ she added , rather wistfully . |
| 13 | I saw it done on the hospital programme Jimmy 's . ’ |
| 14 | When my mother and a friend came to visit me at Wolverton I brought them to Cambridge and , with the confidence of inexperience , I took them punting on the river . |
| 15 | ‘ I said it depended on the circumstances , ’ Nicholson repeated irritably . |
| 16 | Well I had it done on the insurance you know |
| 17 | I had it pinned on the curtain , I thought well anybody will be able to er record into that will they ? |
| 18 | So I suggested she stay on the Pill until we knew the result . |
| 19 | That was why I wanted her to go on the stage … to help get them out . ’ |