Example sentences of "i [verb] on a [noun] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | I sit on a rock and listen to the water lap and the boys whistle as they pull their tin boats across the long sweep of the stony bay . |
| 2 | ‘ Sometimes I 'm so frustrated that I sit on a rock and shout my head off . |
| 3 | There are times when I go down to the beach at The Pit and I 'm the only surfer down there and I 'm so frustrated with it all that I sit on a rock and shout my head off . |
| 4 | I sit on a bench and re-read the morning paper , and try to do the crossword in my head . |
| 5 | ‘ I became homeless in London so I got on a train and ended up here ; that 's all there is to it , really . ’ |
| 6 | And when I t when I got on a Friday and and paid me wages over to me Mum , which was natural for you to do , I always got th thre three pennies back . |
| 7 | I got on a bus and grudgingly paid my fare to the King 's Road . |
| 8 | I did n't want to wear glasses , and I was thinking how I could get out of it but finally they brought in a bunch of pairs of glasses and I was trying them on in the mirror , and I tried on a pair and I thought , ‘ Gee , these do n't look too bad ’ . |
| 9 | ‘ As noon approached , I put on a raincoat and hat . |
| 10 | I put on a spacesuit and went into the cargo area were I found that while the main part of the sculpture was now solidified again , the fibres on the floor were disintegrating and useless . |
| 11 | I put on a jersey and jacket and lay with head and shoulders propped against a locker , eating sardines and mopping the oil from the can with fresh bread . |
| 12 | I pulled on a sweater and trousers and crept down the stairs in bare feet . |
| 13 | But then I thought on a while and raised my finger . |
| 14 | And you know this time when I went on a plane and I looked down , I was n't saying it to Ben |
| 15 | For a time I leaned on a rail and watched the rushing waters where the rivers Boyne and Blackwater combine . |