Example sentences of "i [be] [vb pp] [adv] on the " in BNC.

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1 I feel as if I am poised somewhere on the edge of a slope , and about to slide down when I am supposed to be climbing up .
2 ‘ Listen lawman , I wuz brought up on the streets .
3 I were knocked back on the bloody floor .
4 Well I was brought up on the story .
5 I was put back on the diet designed to ‘ build me up ’ .
6 I was stationed right on the Pilgrims Way
7 I was carried away on the wave of enthusiasm which , one could almost feel this physically , bore the speaker along from sentence to sentence .
8 I got out of Bullwood Hall on a Tuesday and I was picked up on the Thursday , two days later , for robbery .
9 I was left outside on the grass verge while my mother went to the bedside .
10 He ran , and I was left there on the step with this huge bunch of flowers .
11 I was shoved down on the bed , the soldier left and the slattern bustled in with a small manchet loaf and a goblet of wine .
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