Example sentences of "i [verb] [verb] on a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | erm I want to ride on a bike |
| 2 | ‘ I want to ride on a horse . ’ |
| 3 | My back , my great white back was scored with thirty or forty sharp red welts , regularly patterned , as if I 'd slept on a bed of nails . |
| 4 | Oh I said , yes she said , I like going on a boat , she said not that I 've been on one she said she 's never been on a boat across |
| 5 | In the spring of 1976 I decided to act on a need I had felt for a very long time . |
| 6 | And I used to get in when I was a young boy and see them when I started working on a farm I always to see them . |
| 7 | I managed to get on a bus at sort of five-ish . |
| 8 | I did try on a couple of occasions to wind the engine up past the 5000rpm mark , where the torque curve begins to fall away rapidly , but it produced no more performance than was available by driving the car sensibly for economy . |
| 9 | Afterwards , I had to lie on a bed in a dark room . |
| 10 | But data stores , I had stumbled on a case of data suppression . |
| 11 | ‘ For me , I was in the place which I had seen on a globe as a girl — where the pin went through it ! |
| 12 | In the morning I explained to Diana and Mary that I had to go on a journey , and would be away for several days . |
| 13 | It was during the filming of the opening titles for the last ‘ Marti ’ series for the B.B.C. Dressed in a red chiffon evening gown , high heels and lead-weighted knickers , I had to sit on a rock at the bottom of a tank full of sharks , smiling and brushing my hair , while Duncan swam past with a plywood plaice bearing the immortal words ‘ End of Part One ’ ( it could have been the end of several parts ! ) . |
| 14 | The only problem with the job was that I had to work on a lot of Saturdays , which naturally interfered with my athletics , though the company were quite generous in giving me time off . |
| 15 | He handed me the seventeenth-century pamphlet , which I had left on a table on the landing . |
| 16 | I had put on a show of contrition all day , and behind it had been incomprehension and fright . |
| 17 | 1 was attracted by another that I had discussed on a visit to Europe : certain branded drugs would not be prescribed at all when entirely adequate substitute generic drugs existed . |
| 18 | ‘ I 'm afraid I 've gone on a bit , My Lord Chairman , ’ he said apologetically . |
| 19 | I 've gone on a bit but |
| 20 | The best boxing game I 've played on a home computer is 4D Sports Boxing , again from Mindscape , which uses 3D vector graphics . |
| 21 | I 've trodden on a thistle . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ I 've worked on a lot of great albums and this is right up there with them . |
| 23 | Do n't want to ever come back ; can you phone Chambers and tell them I 've perished on a mountain , and then I can change my identity , and disguise myself as one of the locals and no-one will be any the wiser . |
| 24 | I remember a little boy , I 've got on a picture with me he was a very very poor child and he made the best gloves in the class and it was a real sort of accolade for him . |
| 25 | I wish to rely on a model , both elegant and simple , expounded by a philosopher , Alan Tormey ( 1971 ) , which seems to be not entirely incompatible with most aesthetic and performance theories . |
| 26 | He said : ‘ I look at myself and what I have achieved on a time-scale of every two years . |
| 27 | ‘ I 'll think of something , even if I have to put on a show myself . ‘ |
| 28 | They could not keep it going in the quarter-final , though they gave Richard and Jonathon Lavelle , of The Berkshire , five shots and beat them 3 & 2 after blue skies gave way to one of the most vicious snow squalls I have seen on a golf course . |
| 29 | Wolfenstein 3D has the best graphics I have seen on a P.C. and should you have a soundblaster the voices and sounds are amazing . |
| 30 | I have worked on a drama project in which Year Seven children were the Argonauts ( without Jason ! ) and Year Three children developed a Greek island community . |