Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb base] on a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I mean on a sort of wider thing erm |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ Sometimes I 'm so frustrated that I sit on a rock and shout my head off . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I sit on a bench and re-read the morning paper , and try to do the crossword in my head . |
| 6 | Yeah cos I went in that shop and I put on a size ten skirt and it was hanging . |
| 7 | ‘ As noon approached , I put on a raincoat and hat . |
| 8 | ‘ Once I put on a tie , I tend not to change it every day . |
| 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 | As I put on a plaster in here an hour ago , I wondered if I 'd left it on that shelf above the sink . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | I put on a stone after a recent holiday and I have n't got round to getting it off . |
| 13 | I put on a look of concern , but he shrugged . |
| 14 | I put on a bit of make-up — not like before , not like a freak , just enough to make me feel respectable . |
| 15 | Often I put on a record . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Oh I put on a pound too . |
| 18 | I put on a flamenco record and roll a joint . |
| 19 | I put on a spacesuit , went outside and moved to the big round door . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | So I put on a coat . |
| 23 | I 'm telling you , I put on a coat . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | I always cleanse , tone and moisturise and I put on a face masque every week . |
| 26 | I pass on an interesting snippet that I read on a computer news net . |
| 27 | Fixing the window leather to the broom , I stand on a bar stool on top of Kenneth 's desk , and proceed with caution . |
| 28 | By all means snoop into my answer machine and sit through 20 messages suggesting I travel on a coach to Grimsby to review a Jive Bunny concert . |
| 29 | And as I I recall on a Saturday morning I used to have to take the er one and sixpence each Saturday back to this House , and they used to issue us a little receipt and I remember my father keeping all those receipts until it was paid off . |
| 30 | Actually , I chew on a piece of mozzarella and merely wish that I 'd thought of bringing a silver pistol , because , let's face it , Dudley Moore played Patch the Elf in the 40-million-dollar Santa Claus — The Movie which unlike say Ishtar or Hudson Hawk , is consistently unbearable for every single one of its sad seconds . |