Example sentences of "i [verb] [adv prt] on [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I pick up on one idea at a time , and we try each of these as a group . |
| 2 | Material body , organism , behaviour , vibes , expression , self : I pick up on all of it . |
| 3 | 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 ? |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Erm however erm a company er a car is needed to do this job so I I home in on that . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I dined out on that one for quite a while , but have not had occasion to be offered cream coronets of late . |
| 8 | Each meeting ends with the moneymen all saying things like I 'm in or I want in on this or You got it or Let's do it . |
| 9 | I like it because I know that every time I walk out on that stage my fingers are getting stronger and I have that much more playing behind me . ’ |
| 10 | 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 ! |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 ? |
| 13 | She said : ‘ When I look back on 1992 I know I did n't give 100 per cent . |
| 14 | ‘ When I look back on 1992 I know that I did n't give 100 per cent , ’ Capriati confessed . |
| 15 | Now when I look back on that part of my life , I want to make a film and call it The Loneliness of the Long Distance Latent Lesbian . |
| 16 | If I look back on that [ first year ] , that was one thing that really hurt me . |
| 17 | And I look back on that and you know , nineteen |
| 18 | I look back on those emotions with wry amusement but also with a certain amount of self-respect . |
| 19 | When I look back on those days now , I think how perfectly harmless it all was by comparison with today 's pornography . |
| 20 | I look back on 1975 as a year of the most painful self-scrutiny . |
| 21 | I look down on clear rivers . |
| 22 | I move them and instead of having a good scuttle across the floor , I stand up on these legs in quite the wrong attitude . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | As I set out on that Christmas afternoon , I planned to learn as I went along . |
| 25 | I have gone much further than I intended when I set out on this report and am already beginning to regret the substantial breach in normal departmental procedures which this has involved . |
| 26 | He 's into fun and games in bed , all the horny things that I get off on like spankings and Polaroid pictures . |
| 27 | I walk up to the spot where a rabbit is entangled , I get down on one knee and lift the top line of the net over the back of my head . |
| 28 | When it 's available I get by on half a gram a day . |
| 29 | I flew over on 6 May . |
| 30 | I had n't been in a very good mood when I started out on this journey . |