Example sentences of "i [verb] [pers pn] on [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No I tried it on smaller needles |
| 2 | I send them on regular trips abroad to keep up to date with new technology … ’ |
| 3 | I believed her on both counts , especially when she visited me for a weekend and gave me a bottle of ‘ Denim ’ aftershave which she had shoplifted from a Chemist in mid Wales . |
| 4 | but I put him on some medicine I got from the chemist and it seems to have calmed it down but his nose is more er hot and cold |
| 5 | ‘ Yes , I put them on one side for you . |
| 6 | Yes , I did , I put it on that way |
| 7 | The tent-pole bag was torn , so I put it on one side with the sewing kit . |
| 8 | He said I know I put it on full power . |
| 9 | I put it on this morning he did n't like it . |
| 10 | Shall I do it on that piece of paper so I do n't get mixed up on |
| 11 | wonderful do n't like those , do n't really wan na give you those there are right have I got it on bloody hell mum ! |
| 12 | Although the ministers were too polite to commit themselves , even when I pressed them on this point , it was clear to me that they felt they , and their church , had been used . |
| 13 | I must have bloody done so , because they both produced contracts and five or six witnesses who swore that , although I was completely paralytic , I signed them on last Monday night at the Duck and Forceps . |
| 14 | And I arranged it on that day at the time . |
| 15 | No , oh no , did I try it on smaller needles ? |
| 16 | I had a clear view of them from a branch of a tree that overhung the water , and I watched them on several occasions . |
| 17 | A few months after the aggravation I started her on Kali carb. 0/1 , progressing through 0/6. with steady amelioration , increasing energy and emotional well-being . |
| 18 | Yet , when I saw him on this occasion , he seemed more than usually calm and quiet , which , given that the most painful of interrupters might arrive at any hour , showed that when , in the very essay I was delivering to him , he had talked about the necessity for the ‘ discipline and training of the emotions ’ , he meant what he said and practised it . |
| 19 | I was just reaching out to get the bottle — I keep them on that sideboard just behind me chair — when I heard this noise … . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ I took her on six years ago and she finished up managing our design workshop . |
| 21 | I took it on full time , ’ she said . |
| 22 | I bought an answering machine — I leave it on all day when I 'm working because it 's quite a foil ! |
| 23 | Chairman Michael started off on a nice tripartisan note which er I think we on this side er did appreciate and it 's true that this panel er has agreed a great deal , covered a lot of ground and er I think er avoided the sort of er , er controversy etc. , etc. , was which we 're now caring now we are arranging in practical groups does mean the Labour groups has introduced a sound note er Brian started off by saying that the Conservatives er were not interested in an economic development strategy , er I must point out that and this activity derives from the local government managing act nineteen eighty nine , and by the present Government . |
| 24 | Last girl to leave turns it off at night , then I puts it on next morning . |
| 25 | ‘ I had them on one night at the South Bank Poly and I just thought to myself , ‘ I ca n't be bothered with this , I really ca n't ’ . |
| 26 | I had mine on this morning and er but she was out anyway . |
| 27 | ‘ I prefer it on this side of the sea , ’ I say at last , and I mean it , though I ca n't quite remember which sea I 'm talking about . |
| 28 | I 've got fire on , I left it on all dinner while I were outside . |
| 29 | Although I take her on short trips to the shops , she ca n't cope with going too far from the house . |
| 30 | I wrote it on orange paper in blue ink and it all went horribly wrong when I photocopied it so I 've put an agenda on there right . |