Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb base] on a " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I mean on a sort of wider thing erm |
| 2 | 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 … |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I sit on a smooth stone and watch yellow-breasted finches in their dipping flights across the still-warm air . |
| 6 | ‘ Sometimes I 'm so frustrated that I sit on a rock and shout my head off . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I sit on a bench and re-read the morning paper , and try to do the crossword in my head . |
| 9 | I sit on an authority they are very tiresome at times they make mistakes at times rather like Governments My Lords but at the end of the day that surely is what democracy is all about is n't it ? |
| 10 | When I took it off afterwards , my hair was a mess , so I put on a turban or tied in back with a band , which is what I do every day . |
| 11 | When I was at school in the seventies , one afternoon every week throughout the winter term , I put on a pair of ill-fitting plimsolls and plodded miserably , and for no apparent reason , around the wet pavements of a Sussex market town . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ As noon approached , I put on a raincoat and hat . |
| 14 | I put on a bit of make-up — not like before , not like a freak , just enough to make me feel respectable . |
| 15 | ‘ Once I put on a tie , I tend not to change it every day . |
| 16 | I always cleanse , tone and moisturise and I put on a face masque every week . |
| 17 | It certainly contributed in a more direct manner in that most of the food we ate had a high carbohydrate content and , although I was unaware of it at the time , I put on a lot of weight . |
| 18 | I put on a stone after a recent holiday and I have n't got round to getting it off . |
| 19 | As I put on a plaster in here an hour ago , I wondered if I 'd left it on that shelf above the sink . |
| 20 | If I put on a vacuum cleaner and lie beside it , I go into a complete trance because the one note ringing inside the machine seems to relax me and hypnotise me . |
| 21 | I put on a spacesuit , went outside and moved to the big round door . |
| 22 | Often I put on a record . |
| 23 | I put on a look of concern , but he shrugged . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | So I put on a coat . |
| 26 | I 'm telling you , I put on a coat . |
| 27 | I put on a flamenco record and roll a joint . |
| 28 | Yeah cos I went in that shop and I put on a size ten skirt and it was hanging . |
| 29 | Oh I put on a pound too . |
| 30 | I put on an accent I slip into something more comfortable I turn |