Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb base] [adv prt] on [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I pick up on one idea at a time , and we try each of these as a group . |
| 2 | Material body , organism , behaviour , vibes , expression , self : I pick up on all of it . |
| 3 | Erm however erm a company er a car is needed to do this job so I I home in on that . |
| 4 | Each meeting ends with the moneymen all saying things like I 'm in or I want in on this or You got it or Let's do it . |
| 5 | I like it because I know that every time I walk out on that stage my fingers are getting stronger and I have that much more playing behind me . ’ |
| 6 | She said : ‘ When I look back on 1992 I know I did n't give 100 per cent . |
| 7 | ‘ When I look back on 1992 I know that I did n't give 100 per cent , ’ Capriati confessed . |
| 8 | Now when I look back on that part of my life , I want to make a film and call it The Loneliness of the Long Distance Latent Lesbian . |
| 9 | If I look back on that [ first year ] , that was one thing that really hurt me . |
| 10 | And I look back on that and you know , nineteen |
| 11 | I look back on those emotions with wry amusement but also with a certain amount of self-respect . |
| 12 | When I look back on those days now , I think how perfectly harmless it all was by comparison with today 's pornography . |
| 13 | I look back on 1975 as a year of the most painful self-scrutiny . |
| 14 | I look down on clear rivers . |
| 15 | I move them and instead of having a good scuttle across the floor , I stand up on these legs in quite the wrong attitude . |
| 16 | As I set out on that Christmas afternoon , I planned to learn as I went along . |
| 17 | I have gone much further than I intended when I set out on this report and am already beginning to regret the substantial breach in normal departmental procedures which this has involved . |
| 18 | He 's into fun and games in bed , all the horny things that I get off on like spankings and Polaroid pictures . |
| 19 | I walk up to the spot where a rabbit is entangled , I get down on one knee and lift the top line of the net over the back of my head . |
| 20 | When it 's available I get by on half a gram a day . |
| 21 | I am no different , by the way : I stock up on duty-free and await orders like the rest of them . |
| 22 | ‘ It 's fairly flexible , I go in on odd days . |
| 23 | On the subject of my aunts , I must share with you something which still makes me smile when I think back on those days of yore , which were for us children — halcyon days . |
| 24 | To loose them off together , scatter-gun fashion : Stavrogin says ‘ I am making this statement , incidentally , to prove I am in full possession of my mental faculties and understand my position ’ ; ‘ I want to forgive myself , this is my chief aim , my whole aim ’ ; ‘ I want everyone to look at me ’ ; ‘ I fall back on this as my last resource ’ ; ‘ The thing about me then was I felt bored with life , sick and tired of it ’ ; ‘ I am seeking boundless suffering ’ ; ‘ I took it into my head to mutilate my life somehow ’ ( not necessarily the same thing as seeking suffering , any more than seeking suffering need entail accepting it ) . |
| 25 | I suppose it comes from being lifelong buddies — you rub off on each other , reflect each other 's personality . |
| 26 | If you walk in on any game you assess the relative positions of all the pieces — regardless of how they got there . |
| 27 | ‘ If you 're tired , Miss Lea , I suggest you catch up on some sleep when you go back to the hotel . |
| 28 | Now I think if you look back on this report famous report that did n't through . |
| 29 | Take breakfast at the Hotel Concordia and you look out on unrivalled views of Venice . |
| 30 | Got the old watering can and then you get down on this plant , and then when they get a gist of that first time that they go whooo , you wake up in the morning , you 've got co , conifers like Jack and The Beanstalk coming |