Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] to [noun sg] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | I want to gorge on life with you , I want to take your strength from you and give you my care . |
| 2 | When Karen and I used to feast on each other 's bodies , Dennis was the unseen guest at the table . |
| 3 | ‘ It did n't really sink in what I had done until I returned to school on the Monday morning and saw all the television cameras waiting for me at the gates , ’ says Dozzell . |
| 4 | Tomorrow when I go to work on it , I 'm going through er I 'm not gon na go through Bowgreen I do n't wan na go that way . |
| 5 | I go to court on the day that Crilly is released . |
| 6 | I remember feeling a bit disappointed as I went to school on the morning of my birthday — I 'd rather have stayed home and finished the aviary . |
| 7 | And before I went to school on the Monday , drove back down the marsh and went in this forest trying to find it . |
| 8 | I first became interested in the Cyclades in 1961 , after I went to work on the excavations at Nea Nikomedeia , the early Neolithic village in Macedonia . |
| 9 | Well I went to work on the Saturday morning at six and we were dredging until half past twelve , then we would , then do repairs till five o'clock at night and then five o'clock at night , when the other crew had gone home , when I start to stay there then from five o'clock Saturday night till Monday morning six o'clock all the time just to keep watch on the dredger , I used to sleep mind you during part of the time and erm used to have a big old tortoise stove down the cabin and make good fire . |
| 10 | When some boys at the school put excrement under the headmaster 's chair , he contrasted the culprits unfavourably with true school sportsmen : ‘ Last Friday I was feeling pretty low when I found out about this lot … but then I went to football on Saturday , there were several lads and teachers there , playing their hearts out or giving up their time just for the school , and then I thought , ‘ Perhaps , it 's not so bad after all . ’ |
| 11 | I return to work on the spot with insights into what I am looking at and a clearer sense of intention . |
| 12 | We tr I travelled to school on the railway one bit , when they gave us season tickets , because with a scholarship you got your fares paid . |
| 13 | and then er she ca n't be a member , but take her to bowls and then bring her here , she goes to bingo on a Tuesday and a Thursday , but the point is it 's night time , so if we can fill her days in a bit |
| 14 | She goes to hospital on Thursday . |
| 15 | this is like confession you know save you going to church on a Sunday |
| 16 | ‘ You going to work on the beaches ? ’ |
| 17 | but I want to ask you , are you going to work on this idea of a core curriculum ? |
| 18 | ‘ What time did you go to bed on Friday night ? ’ |
| 19 | ‘ What time did you go to bed on Friday night ? ’ |
| 20 | So that erm you then have the problem of whether you respond to pressure on land for housing erm through the private sector . |
| 21 | Touches like this emphasise how meagre the rest of the fare is , and remind you of the contrary sensation , years back , when , after much prompting , you listened to Darkness on the Edge of Town and were suddenly converted . |
| 22 | Well you go to town on them then . |
| 23 | She went to work on Friday morning having worked until midnight the night before , and giving serious consideration to finding another job . |
| 24 | She was elderly and although she went to church on a Sunday , I did n't feel that I could trouble her with my religious affairs . |
| 25 | So did you travel to school on the railways ? |
| 26 | In 1929 she shot to stardom on Broadway in a Noel Coward play . |
| 27 | She set to work on Emily 's shoes , pride insisted that she finish the job she had begun even if she was never paid for it . |
| 28 | ‘ As far as we are aware there were no fish in distress when we returned to work on the Thursday morning and the canal was refilled with two feet of water . ’ |
| 29 | We set to work on this with a will . |
| 30 | ‘ So we set to work on the pictures , enormous ones and little gems which would all go in the modern interior , and made them full of off-white and near-pink . ’ |