Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] on a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is overladen with tear-jerking moments , most of them centred on a big eyed calf that Crystal , roped in as mid- wife , delivers onscreen in the film 's only spot of blood and gore . |
| 2 | No disrespect to my conveyancing brethren but I would n't let them loose on a guilty plea of going the wrong way round a keep left sign . |
| 3 | While this may mean working only one day less per week , that one day may provide a vital breathing space for women like Alice Perkins , working in demanding , pressurised jobs , and it may just allow them to remain on a career path that will take them into positions of power . |
| 4 | He took their cloaks and told them to sit on a bench which he pushed towards the heat of the fire . |
| 5 | He adds sadly : ‘ It 's impossible for me to go on a quiet date as I get recognised everywhere and asked for autographs . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ They want me to go on a course , the company runs it , so 's I can demonstrate the new machine . |
| 7 | No I 've made , it 's made an awful lot of difference to me the New Town I mean we 've got and the Council are very , very good to us , I mean we ca n't say they 're not , they 've had a , I 've had the gas central heating put in , I 've had a shower put in since I 've been here and I mean they do they look after us well , the only thing I 'm upset about that I 've put off the ambulance to go to Leah Manning on a Wednesday because they want me to go on a Tuesday and I can not go on a Tuesday because I have my friend come down which does all odd jobs for me you know , on a Tuesday dear and I just can not so I had to see Mr is it ? |
| 8 | When did you ever know me to go on a diet ? |
| 9 | One longs to give a copy each to ten assorted bus company managers ( leavened with the occasional politician and academic ) and make them wait on a cold dark wet night in a vandalised bus shelter for an unpredictable R registered banger . |
| 10 | They have every right to be different — it 's very presumptuous of us to invent personalities for them simply because we 've seen them act on a cinema screen , but it can still be a shock when they 're not as you 'd hoped . |
| 11 | These are ancient divisions of the territory , recognized for centuries past as distinct pays , but you are unlikely to find them entered on a modern map , so I should apologize for introducing what will seem like obsolete names . |
| 12 | There are a few places in the States , but there 's no federal policy to get them organised on a big-money basis and all the little local pressure groups keep them harassed and staying small . |
| 13 | Those things do n't sound fearsome — till you see them used on a man 's body . ’ |
| 14 | The band formed a friendship with NME journalist Neil Taylor , and he asked them to appear on a label he was starting called City Slang . |
| 15 | I asked on a hunch . |
| 16 | Near a tombstone-memorial by the wayside , I gazed on a crowd of boys . |
| 17 | But I mean on a sort of wider thing erm |
| 18 | If you get the limited edition of Let's Knife , you too can Singalongaknife with the free karaoke CD : I am a sweet little cat/ and I dance on a flying saucer … |
| 19 | I sit on a flat stone in one — the straw thatched roof would just have cleared my head — imagining what was kept in the neat stone alcoves . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | I sit on a smooth stone and watch yellow-breasted finches in their dipping flights across the still-warm air . |
| 22 | ‘ Sometimes I 'm so frustrated that I sit on a rock and shout my head off . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | I sit on a bench and re-read the morning paper , and try to do the crossword in my head . |
| 25 | ‘ I became homeless in London so I got on a train and ended up here ; that 's all there is to it , really . ’ |
| 26 | There I got on a bus that took me to Le Hospitalet près l'Andorre , and through the frontier post at Pas de la Casa , over the Envalira pass and down into a land whose mountainous beauty at once put me under a spell I shall never forget . |
| 27 | ‘ I 've been brushing up on my Italian , ’ Molly 's father went on , ‘ with the aid of an extremely sexy-sounding signorina I got on a tape from the Fulham Public Library . |
| 28 | I got on a bus and grudgingly paid my fare to the King 's Road . |
| 29 | At last I got on a bus , which trundled quite briskly to the far end of the King 's Road , but after World 's End , where the streets were darker , the fog seemed to close in and the bus was forced to nose its way cautiously along in first gear . |
| 30 | 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 . |