Example sentences of "i [vb past] [adv prt] on a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I got up on a bench in the middle of the market and we were soon surrounded . |
| 2 | The bike 's many gears , light frame and thinnish tyres also make it highly suitable for cycle touring , as I found out on a weekend 's cycling trip in Normandy . |
| 3 | It vanished as the wide sweep of grey-blue sea fell beneath the rising ground behind the town , and as the bus trundled westward I looked out on a landscape of untroubled peace . |
| 4 | I went out on a board George Downing had built for me . |
| 5 | I had been wept on by so many boyfriends that , had Home Sister known , she would have warned me of the dangers of pneumonia every time I went out on a date . |
| 6 | Doris cuddled me on the way to the door but she must have let go for an instant ( perhaps I goosed her too eagerly ) because I went off on a run that would have taken me all the way downtown — further , to the Village , to Martina Twain — if the dessert trolley had n't been there to check my sprint . |
| 7 | That being an impossible expectation , I went off on a tack and remarked that he 'd been lucky , as a politician , that he was also a natural entertainer . |
| 8 | I grew up on a farm . ’ |
| 9 | Paddy handed me a mug of tea and I sat down on a jerry-can . |
| 10 | So I sat down on a chair that stood by the counter and looked around the shop while waiting for Mary to emerge from behind the colourful painted screen where she was trying things on . |
| 11 | I sat down on a milking stool , rolled up my trouser leg and examined the roll of skin which hung like a diploma at the end ofa long graze where the sharp hoof had dragged along . |
| 12 | I sat down on a rock in the golden air and stared at the vast expanse of glassy blue and listened to the sucking and lapping . |
| 13 | I sat in on a board meeting the week before last and the Manager 's alleged report was nothing more than a series of orders closely followed by a succession of demands . |
| 14 | While in command of Venturous I missed out on a lot of the big drug operations through being in the north of Scotland , but I always enjoyed working as part of a team with the other cutters or any of the shore units . |