Example sentences of "i [vb past] [pers pn] on [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 No I tried it on smaller needles
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 And I arranged it on that day at the time .
6 I had a clear view of them from a branch of a tree that overhung the water , and I watched them on several occasions .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 I took her on six years ago and she finished up managing our design workshop .
10 I took it on full time , ’ she said .
11 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 ’ .
12 I had mine on this morning and er but she was out anyway .
13 I 've got fire on , I left it on all dinner while I were outside .
14 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 .
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