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 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 .
10 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 .
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 ‘ As noon approached , I put on a raincoat and hat .
13 I put on a bit of make-up — not like before , not like a freak , just enough to make me feel respectable .
14 ‘ Once I put on a tie , I tend not to change it every day .
15 I always cleanse , tone and moisturise and I put on a face masque every week .
16 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 .
17 I put on a stone after a recent holiday and I have n't got round to getting it off .
18 As I put on a plaster in here an hour ago , I wondered if I 'd left it on that shelf above the sink .
19 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 .
20 I put on a spacesuit , went outside and moved to the big round door .
21 Often I put on a record .
22 I put on a look of concern , but he shrugged .
23 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 .
24 So I put on a coat .
25 I 'm telling you , I put on a coat .
26 I put on a flamenco record and roll a joint .
27 Yeah cos I went in that shop and I put on a size ten skirt and it was hanging .
28 Oh I put on a pound too .
29 I depend on a manual wheelchair for all movement away from my car .
30 ‘ I look forward to seeing you again soon , though I hope on a social rather than a professional basis . ’
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