Example sentences of "i [verb] on [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ My boss hinted this afternoon at asking me to work on another case . ’ |
| 2 | Right , if there 's , if there 's gon na be , if there 's gon na be looking a bit iffy , if you 'll let me know on any item , and then I 'll get , I 'll , and then I 'll box . |
| 3 | I asked on that occasion for considerably more information . |
| 4 | I lost it in 1963 on the A30 west of Salisbury when I skidded on some diesel oil and rolled over and over . |
| 5 | What did I build on this foundation ? |
| 6 | so he j , now he does make an effort in some of his books and , I mean they say write small , I mean on one page if he wrote any smaller I need a ma |
| 7 | Well they were , they were really dependent on , I mean on each other , they were a unit even though they were two families in a way |
| 8 | Later , when I consulted on another matter a British doctor who has been in Kampala some thirty years , he stated that he ‘ never advises patients to take mefloquine . |
| 9 | When I insist on that priority , as I can tell you I most certainly will — with the full support of the Prime Minister in doing so — then I 'm sure my colleagues will see the point of that . |
| 10 | I sit on that bench for quite a while — till it starts getting dark . |
| 11 | I sit on this platform fifteen minutes waiting for a train . |
| 12 | and this kind of thing it 's getting er I just think I 'm going to end up more confused by trying to do it all at once than if I concentrate on one thing at a time . |
| 13 | ‘ Many people tend to specialise in a certain topic such as sport or pop music but I concentrate on general knowledge . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Have I stumbled on some dark and desperate secret ? ’ |
| 15 | The only wheel I found on this trip is still very much in business , grinding corn on two pairs of stones . |
| 16 | Not as good as yesterday evening when I dined on roast chicken , not very well cooked , but certainly much better than this homely fare . |
| 17 | The R/T was bad and I thought he said ‘ below you ’ so I concentrated on that section of the sky almost exclusively , leaving it to Dick to watch above us . |
| 18 | Yet if I concentrated on each footstep , I should soon be safely home . |
| 19 | ‘ Right , Piper , we 'll forget the bloody left , right , left , right , routine , ’ snarls the Sergeant , ‘ When I knock on this door and you hear someone say ‘ come in' ’ , you go in , turn right , and salute . |
| 20 | Er yes , wh yes , I came on full rate then . |
| 21 | I put on one kilogram . |
| 22 | What I done on that night was no more than any other police officer does or would do in the same situation . |
| 23 | I cite as an example the urban areas of the city which I partially represent — I speak for all of Birmingham when I speak on this issue , and I am trying to raise an important matter in which there may be some common cause . |
| 24 | Can I touch on another thing , which I think , has n't been mentioned in the notes , but is very much in our minds . |
| 25 | Here is evidence , I read on one card , that the Pagan Mysteries were instituted pure . |
| 26 | And erm , the other aspect , the last aspect that gave us er anxiety was something I touched on this morning when I joined in at the end of the Selby discussion . |
| 27 | Yes , it 's just a plaque and erm but The thing that erm I enjoyed on that occasion was meeting the other conservationists who 'd been called up . |
| 28 | Soon after this I embarked on another essay , under what stimulus I do not now remember ; but I had formed the habit , not of revising or tinkering with an unsatisfactory piece , but of writing something else instead . |
| 29 | Electroluminescent backlighting , lasting 10 hours between charges , gives a clear display even in total darkness , as I discovered on one dive to 36 metres . |
| 30 | When I get on that plane , I 'll just sit myself in a corner and concentrate on what I have to do . |