Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] [verb] on [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I better walk on tip-toes to right well , you know now let's just give , you know , I mean you ca n't see Zane 's bum . |
| 2 | Sometimes when I 'm in a mood I do untold things , I just pick on people . |
| 3 | I did n't go in June with being full of cold , I just knocked on door and that got him out . |
| 4 | So , ’ he added with a slightly twisted smile , ‘ I just concentrated on business , and became even more of a workaholic than ever ! ’ |
| 5 | Right , so , if I just start on isomers across the board . |
| 6 | you know I , I think , I think usually what I say about questionnaires is towards the business of , you know , kind of writing them in people 's own words that , that sort of fit in with ordinary language okay putting them in a sensible order advising people to do scale type things with five or seven points or something which you 've got a lot of already so a lot of the comments that I normally make on people 's questionnaires er you can take as read as it were erm so I think erm you know just really one or two minor things about layout like , you know , you know sort of space and , and moving things around a wee bit , it might make them easier to read but again as I say that 's a you know relatively minor erm problem . |
| 7 | ‘ I can explain what resources I 've got and what I can do with those resources — which includes looking after the bands I already have on board . ’ |
| 8 | I finally focused on Ben Slack who was 15 — a year younger than me . |
| 9 | Ooh they sometimes used to get books or er they used to get some nice prizes you know , and books and er and that and er and when I was little I once went on stage for a in a skipping competition . |
| 10 | and er , I think that er , er I I I 'm quite interested an and really quite amused , if I once gone on proceedings of this council , because every time a a new initiative has been proposed , you have said , oh yes , we were going to do that . |
| 11 | ‘ My dear fellow , did I ever tell you about the way two men and two ladies I once met on Mykonos made love ? ’ |
| 12 | I always slept on board . |
| 13 | I always shop on Sunday and I just thought that it was nice to see in the paper today it looks like we will have legalized Sunday trading everywhere for all of us fairly soon . |
| 14 | I always put on hanger , every time I put it away . |
| 15 | I always worked on Saturday morning . |
| 16 | But I still rely on intuition and feeling . |
| 17 | I usually shop on Wednesdays . |
| 18 | I also speak on behalf of the group New Consensus , of which I am chairman and which is both all-party and none . |
| 19 | May I also say on behalf of my party that the personal code of conduct of the Secretary of State is an example to us all ? |
| 20 | And I really felt on edge walking back |
| 21 | I even flirt on stage . |
| 22 | ‘ I then went on holiday by myself . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ Am I there to speak on behalf of the council ? |
| 24 | Am I there to speak on behalf of me ? |
| 25 | But Merry crawled and got into the pigsty ; and I almost fell on top of him and slammed the door . |
| 26 | Sometimes I almost feel on fire with the immensity of this : each of us is a person , alive , growing and relating . |
| 27 | I said at the time that reports are ALWAYS one sided when the score is 3–0 or 4–0 , this coupled with what I actually heard on radio 5 and what Ive seen of the goals is that Leeds had plenty of the ball , just found it hard to break a 6,7,8 man defence , and norwich looked dangerous on the counter attack . |
| 28 | I therefore walked on air as I went to Westminster Evening Institute to sign on for the next Sociology year . |
| 29 | ’ You would n't believe the sufferings of scarlet women , Mr. K. George and I never went on holiday together . |
| 30 | ‘ Then you 'd have had another reason for me not to stay on board . ’ |