Example sentences of "i [verb] on a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How can I think on an empty stomach ? ’ |
| 2 | If you get the limited edition of Let's Knife , you too can Singalongaknife with the free karaoke CD : I am a sweet little cat/ and I dance on a flying saucer … |
| 3 | I sit on a flat stone in one — the straw thatched roof would just have cleared my head — imagining what was kept in the neat stone alcoves . |
| 4 | I sit on a smooth stone and watch yellow-breasted finches in their dipping flights across the still-warm air . |
| 5 | This broad sketch helped me to explore the crayon 's versatility without using the final painting as a trial piece , it also helped keep the whole composition in mind as I concentrated on a specific detail in the finished painting . |
| 6 | ‘ I depend on a manual wheelchair for all movement away from my car . |
| 7 | ‘ I look forward to seeing you again soon , though I hope on a social rather than a professional basis . ’ |
| 8 | I caddied on a temporary basis for Nick in Los Angeles and in Kapalua . |
| 9 | So I reckoned on a quick Sunday journey out to Oxfordshire . |
| 10 | I travel on an Irish passport and in going through Immigration was looked up in a register of , I presume , suspects . |
| 11 | But as I discovered on a one-day introductory course , enjoyment is also a priority . |
| 12 | For this purpose I draw on a wide-ranging survey by John Lyons , which carries on naturally from the analysis by James Harris that I have just quoted . |
| 13 | I pulled on a white coat and went in . |
| 14 | First , I worked on a rapid landscape sketch , using a technique that was not dissimilar from the one used previously . |
| 15 | She says : ‘ I worked on a local footballer and I was able to detect all his old injuries . |
| 16 | For a long time I have had a desire to understand better the behaviour and movements of wild birds and animals , and in the absence of the time ( and probably the dedication ) to undertake a proper study , I decided on a simple ploy which , I hoped , would get some results in the fullness of time . |
| 17 | Then , before it grew dark , I decided on a quick sprint up to the Narrow Neck , the area most vulnerable in times of storm . |
| 18 | I decided on a different approach , and I will explain that approach and why I adopted it . |
| 19 | I decided on a 30-day plan . |
| 20 | So I settled on a fine bouclé in a tan colour and an equally fine yarn with a slight ‘ whisker ’ in cream . |
| 21 | Steven suggested Spenser and Shakespeare , with perhaps Scott and Hardy , and if I insisted on an up-to-date author , William Goulding . |
| 22 | I lay on a thyme-covered slope above the bay , having come quietly through the trees , and watched the cottages below for any sign of unusual life . |
| 23 | Er I do a plug the alb of the album Midnight Postcards we call it , I 'm plugging that now until Christmas , promoting that er on television and radio , and I er in between I go on a short holiday to Africa and then January I start Alfie until May , and then I think I 'm gon na do a T V movie or a movie in June July , and then in end of July I go to America for four four till the end of November with Alfie . |
| 24 | From August 18–28th I went on a fabulous vacation in Maine , a canoe trip on the Allagash Wilderness Waterway . |
| 25 | On the 26th June 1989 I went on a primary school trip to the Isle of Wight . |
| 26 | ‘ I went on a nationwide tour of radio stations and did the same on Merseyside during Radio City 's Pete Price show . |
| 27 | But you see , you get a lot of these courses and , I went in for reflexology , I went on a lovely |
| 28 | WITH Martin Randall Travel I went on a thrilling journey in July called Country Houses of the Hapsburg Empire . |
| 29 | I went on an introductory course with ParAvion in Wiltshire to find out if I liked paragliding any better . |
| 30 | Never did I embark on a foreign visit with more keenness ; for I felt that time was short , and that such an opportunity might never recur . |