Example sentences of "[pers pn] [modal v] [verb] on a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Attempts to improve occupational mobility for them may concentrate on a few professional openings where their colour is defined as an occupational advantage ( e.g. race relations advisers ) or on employers ( e.g. local authorities ) with positive action policies , or self-employment ( small businesses ) . |
| 2 | I may object on a point of fact ( ‘ There are no gibbons there now ’ ) or by appealing to some other end or principle ( ‘ You ought not to put that problem off any longer ’ ) . |
| 3 | So many girls at school say , ‘ Bloody hell , I must go on a diet ’ , but mostly they 're not serious about it . |
| 4 | Twelve thou , you see , I 'm just wondering whether I should quote on a C I F basis which I can do you see , on the basis of , this if I add it up . |
| 5 | ‘ I do n't see why I should put on a show for the whole of Crane Beach . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I might stop on a day or two . ’ |
| 7 | I have been trekking in Nepal several times , and so I am acquainted with the conditions that I might encounter on a winter trip . |
| 8 | ‘ But if it 's for the good of the club , then I 'll pull on a shirt and get stuck in . ’ |
| 9 | I think I 'll stop on a stool , I 'd sooner stop on a stool . |
| 10 | You hang around here and I 'll go on a head ! |
| 11 | You hang around here and I 'll go on a head ! |
| 12 | You hang around here and I 'll go on a head ! |
| 13 | I 'll sit on a rock I know and write a poem . |
| 14 | I have a theory that one day I 'll just be sitting there moving the pencil around and I 'll hit on a brand new character for a strip . |
| 15 | Let's go in there and I 'll put on a cassette . ’ |
| 16 | I think I 'll put on a jumper today , or a pullover it 'll be cold coming out of John 's tonight . |
| 17 | I mean I could say well I could go on a diet , but , er and keep on this sort of thing like Margaret does you know |
| 18 | I 'd be alright as long as I could go on a route where all I had to do was turn left but as soon as I turn right |
| 19 | Not exactly the first person I 'd send on a Feile stage to confront a horde of lunatics crazed by a thunderstorm but Nanci Griffith 's gifts are more private and homely . |
| 20 | It was a bit of a squash but he did n't seem to mind and I 'd put on a tape of golden oldies ( stuff from around 1985 ) for them to sing along to . |
| 21 | As I had to go to Beskett this young woman had not long been married and she always used to ask me to call at her house in Palfrey , cos I used to go on a bike not in a van , on a carrier bike , she used to ask me to call at her house in Palfrey to see if there were any mail from her husband and he was , there sometimes was sometimes there was n't nothing you know that he 'd written and er one day I 'd got back and er she was all in tears and er he , he had been killed in France and I was glad I did n't have to be the harbinger of the times you know she still lives in Palfrey now Mrs yeah . |
| 22 | I ca n't remember any of it now , but I used to sit on a crate and listen to her , and think about freedom , stupid things you think when you 're a kid , you know . |
| 23 | I used to take them every day and I was like that right , and then what I used to do on a Sunday I would n't take one cos I used to think right I like my Sunday dinner and I will never give up my Sunday dinner when I 'm dieting right |
| 24 | I used to work on a service counter in the 5Os , and here I am back at JS still working on a service counter in the 9Os ’ |
| 25 | He would make comments about them ‘ in the same way you or I would comment on a pretty girl and a wonderful pair of knockers ’ . |
| 26 | I loved it so much I promised myself I would go on a course one day when I was old enough . |
| 27 | I would go on a course which is gon na give you the qualifications that are gon na pay you a good sa salary . |
| 28 | I also told them about the financial statement we had issued and afterwards received a letter asking if I would send on a financial statement , which I did " . |
| 29 | I 'm so pleased just to be here , I would sleep on a tent on the beach . |
| 30 | I would put on a tape of Tudor madrigals — a new interest — and lie back in the contoured leather seats , letting myself melt into the crevices of Morley 's sinuous six-part harmony and observing the surrounding misery with mounting satisfaction . |