Example sentences of "i [vb past] [adv prt] on [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | trying to get through the , he says oh them people have left here , now you 'll have to , and he gives us another two numbers and that , I got through on one of the numbers and then er , I asked I says oh I says I did n't get me photograph and me plastic wallet , he says well you do n't really need them you know when you retired , but I says how can you go on the train , you sure of that ? |
| 2 | It 's a testament to how captivating The Orb 's music is that I got off on this so much , completely alone and without recourse to anything stronger than the Institute 's lukewarm lager . |
| 3 | But when I bent down on some pretext and could see into his face it seemed possible that he was laughing at himself as well as flustered . |
| 4 | I dined out on that one for quite a while , but have not had occasion to be offered cream coronets of late . |
| 5 | How longingly I recalled that other bed , with Sophocles beside it and Mary in it , as I camped out on unsavoury sacks among the dregs of humanity who were my new companions ! |
| 6 | When I saw them again I dropped down on one knee , knowing that even though they were constantly looking back they would n't see me at that low level , in my nature-coloured clothes . |
| 7 | I dropped in on long sessions of talk , putting the world to rights — after all that was supposed to be one of the main aspects of college education was n't it ? |
| 8 | I touched down on that planet during my homing , and all that remains of that great civilization , dear friends , are mountains of empty drink cans and a carpet of potato-chip packets . |
| 9 | I flew over on 6 May . |
| 10 | I had n't been in a very good mood when I started out on this journey . |
| 11 | Like our poor parliamentary candidate , I would have no chance of being elected , but it would be a beginning , though perhaps one I would have despised several years earlier when I looked down on parish-pump politics and intended to be the first woman prime minister . |
| 12 | I looked down on those falls — ‘ the smoke that thunders ’ as the Africans used to call them , with the white plumes of spray towering above the bushes and trees ; and I thought of David Livingstone trudging , the first modern white man to find them . |
| 13 | Two months before the murder of Sir Danvers Carew I went out on one of my evil adventures . |
| 14 | ‘ I grew up on this train , eh ? |
| 15 | ‘ I grew up on these stories . |
| 16 | I slipped up on that chess one I got the black and white one |
| 17 | Just before lunch today a Macchi pilot whom I shot down on 9 January was wheeled in , and is now in the next bed to me . |
| 18 | " Watch that one , " they said as I sat down on one of the armchairs , " the seat falls through . " |
| 19 | I ended up on three years ' probation . |
| 20 | Well that 's it cos I 'd , I mean I had the accident , well I mean I , I did n't hurt myself and I was very lucky I did n't hit the cars but erm it was bad enough with er and I ended up on this big grass embankment at the end of the bypass . |