Example sentences of "i [vb past] [vb pp] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I got caned on the palms of my hands . |
| 2 | I ended up having a fight with him , he broke my arm and I got hit on the head . |
| 3 | Erm , may I make a comment on neighbourhood watch , I went to er a job the other day , it was a theatre , I was off duty and er I got tapped on the shoulder by my local neighbourhood watch co-ordinator who said , nine months ago I resigned , I wrote a letter to headquarters , I wrote a letter to the divisional commander , and I wrote a letter to the local constable , and nobody 's replied to me and they still keep sending me papers are you gon na get your act together , now I I have brought this up before , we never ever have let a neighbourhood watch scheme lapse , it 's nothing to do with you , this is all before you came |
| 4 | You know if I 'd gone on the I said hello look here 's a mad man |
| 5 | Cutting that over the numbers had me down and stopped well before the first intersection , a distance of around 400 metres , and I could have done much better if I 'd heaved on the brakes , which are single Goodyear discs with excellent stopping power . |
| 6 | I 'd heard on the grapevine it was nearly settled . ’ |
| 7 | He was in a filthy mood , first because I 'd suggested he sleep on my floor instead of at Sorrel 's so we could get an early start , then because I 'd made him wear a suit and tie to go with our Yuppie cover ( and because I 'd insisted on the shirt as well ) . |
| 8 | I got there first , ordered a Scotch , and opened the evening paper that I 'd bought on the way . |
| 9 | Although I 'd rung on the Thursday and they said his kidneys were failing , it still came as a shock when they rang on the Saturday at 9.30 in the morning to say he 'd died . |
| 10 | My back , my great white back was scored with thirty or forty sharp red welts , regularly patterned , as if I 'd slept on a bed of nails . |
| 11 | It was then that I saw that the folder I 'd left on the coffee table was gone . |
| 12 | She 'd looked at me a bit strange , the woman in charge of the Bed-and-Breakfast , but I 'd paid on the nail and ordered in my refined accent , ‘ And a cooked breakfast , please ’ — so no hassle . |
| 13 | Cos I 'd parked on the top of this multi-storey car park at the offices , is it called ? |
| 14 | I did my best to produce an attractive synopsis , embellishing it with some of the sketches I had made on the spot . |
| 15 | I ran two personal bests , 10.33 seconds for the 100 metres and 20.79 seconds for the 200 , which was further encouragement for me and compensation for the traumas I had suffered on the West London track throughout the long , cold , seemingly never-ending winter . |
| 16 | But data stores , I had stumbled on a case of data suppression . |
| 17 | I felt I had stumbled on the city 's ghetto quarter . |
| 18 | Indeed , my father 's face had gone a dull reddish colour , like no colour I had seen on a living being . |
| 19 | ‘ For me , I was in the place which I had seen on a globe as a girl — where the pin went through it ! |
| 20 | According to a picture I had seen on the wall of the Royal Hotel , this Priory had been founded by King Felin O'Connor of Connaught , whose burial place it became . |
| 21 | Before I go any further , I should tell you that the briefing I had received on the field was as follows : 1000 metres grass , obstructions at both ends , wind sock on the northerly edge . |
| 22 | If I had landed on the ski-track , which was hard-packed and icy , I 'd have probably broken my neck , but I seemed to swerve off centre and thus landed in a soft snow-bank and lay panting , stunned and breathless , for a few minutes . |
| 23 | I had noticed on the way in that Jefferson 's office was alongside the boardroom and , as the last visitor went through into the factory , I turned sharp left and entered his office . |
| 24 | And the two things that I had noticed on the first day were still left hanging there … |
| 25 | If I had stayed on the pitch who knows what might have happened . |
| 26 | Supposing I had said on the stairs , do what you like with me , but do n't send me away ? |
| 27 | I was also misled by work I had done on a simple model of the universe in which the collapsing phase looked like the time reverse of the expanding phase . |
| 28 | On the return journey from Fairbanks to Edmonton I enjoyed a two-day stopover in Whitehorse where the manager of the new cinema , whom I had met on the way north , looked me up . |
| 29 | If she had n't approached me first I doubt I should have recognised her , she was so different from the plump , fresh-faced girl whom I had met on the train that January morning more than three years ago . |
| 30 | He did not recognize me but I knew he was the gentleman I had met on the stairs when visiting Miss Havisham . |