Example sentences of "i [vb past] [to-vb] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the age of 42 I applied to go on a two-year business and finance course and finally , after a lot of readjustment , I have just had the results — pass with a few distinctions and merits thrown in . |
| 2 | Yeah , I jus I skidded to stop on the back end of it . |
| 3 | I failed to turn on the light when the sky grew dark and heavy . |
| 4 | My binoculars I wore round my neck at the ready for all those puffins , razor bills and guillemots I expected to see on the way over . |
| 5 | I tried to play on the drums , I 'm not too good at that . |
| 6 | My peg was on a gravel point , it looked perfect for the stick float but as I was fishing for a good weight I opted to start on the feeder . |
| 7 | The wood-cuts were on display at the Rick Institute in Kilmanock , and I happened to visit on the day of the General Election . |
| 8 | One time when I turned to check on the arrow on the tree , I could n't see it . |
| 9 | A little calmer , I began to write on the ground with the stick , ‘ Howard is a nut ’ , but was distracted by a tiny blue van in the south and was determined not to let it go by . |
| 10 | I began to work on the dog with all I had . |
| 11 | I guessed I had no more than four minutes before he got back to base , so I began to count on the old one-and-one , two-and-two , and so on principle in order to concentrate on the job in hand without looking at my watch . |
| 12 | That 's when I decided to gamble on the chance that you 'd soon be returning to the hotel to freshen up before the start of the evening . |
| 13 | The headmaster was getting a little too close to the bone for my liking , so I decided to go on the defensive . |
| 14 | But then I started to think , well at this rate I am going to get pregnant , so I decided to go on the Pill , and that was the month I fell for Lucy . |
| 15 | After a fruitless hour I decided to go on the stick . |
| 16 | In the spring of 1976 I decided to act on a need I had felt for a very long time . |
| 17 | I decided to focus on the Matter . |
| 18 | I decided to focus on the Matter again ; the cooking facilities ; it looked like it would have to be a barby of some sort , with paper logs made out of Bible pages twisted up and tied into knots — not the lovely picture pages , they remind me too much of Ma and Pa 's bedroom — perhaps a few letters to the Corinthians ; nice and dry . |
| 19 | I decided to work on the problem at home . |
| 20 | In fact , I decided to concentrate on the end of the overture , the ‘ allegro vivace ’ . |
| 21 | And when I started to write on the piano I found that when I translated it back to the guitar it was better . |
| 22 | I chose to write on the Holy Spirit myself for a very definite reason . |
| 23 | I managed to get on a bus at sort of five-ish . |
| 24 | It was funny though , when I went to get on the scales everybody went phew |
| 25 | Afterwards , I had to lie on a bed in a dark room . |
| 26 | One of these blows actually ricked my neck and I had to lie on the floor beneath the table until it was okay to come up again . |
| 27 | I had to kneel on the floor to reach it and her fingers fastened in my hair . |
| 28 | When I went home in the school holidays I had to sleep on the bed-settee in the ‘ front room ’ . |
| 29 | I had to put on a brave face and try to show him that I was not worried , but when he appeared I was shocked at how much he had changed even in such a short time . |
| 30 | I woke again , I had to put on the light . |