Example sentences of "i [verb] [adv prt] on [art] " in BNC.

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1 In the supermarket recently , I crept up on the man in my life who was examining the label on a frozen gateau .
2 When we 're in the flat she says she 'll make some coffee , and I sit down on a chair with my carrier by my side .
3 Well you see I sit down on a I sit down on a fairly regular basis with now and try to give her direction and er point out , and I do make the point , about every time and , right ?
4 Well you see I sit down on a I sit down on a fairly regular basis with now and try to give her direction and er point out , and I do make the point , about every time and , right ?
5 I sit down on the floor next to Marie and look round .
6 I sit down on the bench and look up at the sky .
7 I sit down on the edge of the chair and put my arm around her .
8 She laughs and throws the duvet at me , and I sit back on the sofa-bed as she slips out into the hall .
9 Now that the troops are gone , I sit back on the chaise-longue , that Japanese fish-tailed thing , and close the fan beside me , blocking the street and the living-room .
10 They are pulled away impatiently by Bill , so I sit back on the side lines .
11 My only culinary memories of Huntingdon are of seeing a pea-canning factory ( now demolished ) as I passed by on the train .
12 Yes I pick up on the comment from the , Notts are n't as in control as they were , after first Tony and then Paul got their names on the score sheet in each case for the first time this season , both with bristling finishing efforts and you 'd be a harsh critic indeed who did n't agree that Pisa deserved to pull one back because they played some fine attacking football , and it was the player who 's caused most danger , who 's wearing the number eleven that moved across to the right hand side , got clear of the defence , pulled back an absolutely brilliant clot cross and in the middle who 'd missed an earlier header on fifteen minutes to make it one one , did n't miss on this occasion .
13 I got up on a bench in the middle of the market and we were soon surrounded .
14 I had my camera with me and I saw there was a ladder up on the top deck and when I got up on the top deck it was quite a giddy height , not to be bit I looked at the mast then I climbed up the mast up three quarters of the way up the mast and er the view from up there looked right down on the causeway .
15 And I got up on the wall right ?
16 I got off on the wrong foot , and I 'm never going to get it right now .
17 ‘ Even when I got by on a fast straight , where the extra power of my machine was beneficial , I thought it might be part of his plan to let me go in front and force me into making a mistake . ’
18 ‘ I 'm happy ’ , ‘ I 'm settled ’ , ‘ Now I know what it feels like ’ , ‘ I got out on the right side ’ .
19 When I got out on the street , I would just keep going .
20 And then when the sc , we had a look at the script and we changed it a little bit , and then we all went , they were cutting out words , so we were doing , the first few all three ways , and we 'd look and say , okay , so it was a scrambled mess as we all looked through for three words and ended up with , and I got down on the floor , so we knew where we were .
21 Devlin said , ‘ In forty-one , I got back on a neutral boat , a Brazilian cargo ship from Ireland that put in at Lisbon , but that 's a tricky one .
22 Oh no you know she 's gon na sort of , sort of suus , so erm , I said oh it 's alright it 's only Eve 's house keeper , and I got back on the phone I said no I 'm every sorry to leave you hanging on I said no I do n't know where she is , I have n't seen her all morning , I have n't seen her at all , and er I said bye then , she said what 's the matter with you she said , I said what do you mean what 's the matter with me , she said oh , why you talking funny ?
23 So he said I got back on the phone to him and I said as far as I 'm concerned you can get in your car and come down here and fetch back what 's left .
24 One morning I hopped up on the fence to have a good look around and there , sunning herself in the patio window of the empty house , was the most gorgeous long-hair I 'd ever seen .
25 I sank back on the bed and started worrying about money .
26 The bike 's many gears , light frame and thinnish tyres also make it highly suitable for cycle touring , as I found out on a weekend 's cycling trip in Normandy .
27 Klondyke Trading Co are responsible for providing a variety of straps for both the home market and the world , but as I found out on a recent visit there 's more to making one guitar strap than meets the eye , let alone producing thousands .
28 The tent is extremely stable especially in very high winds as I found out on a few wet and wild nights .
29 At four and a half thousand pound of sales we start to pay extra fift in fact at four thousand pound we start but it 's only a small bonus so I home in on the bigger one .
30 I falled over on the living room .
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