Example sentences of "i [verb] on a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I asked on a hunch . |
| 2 | Near a tombstone-memorial by the wayside , I gazed on a crowd of boys . |
| 3 | But I mean on a sort of wider thing erm |
| 4 | I sit on a rock and listen to the water lap and the boys whistle as they pull their tin boats across the long sweep of the stony bay . |
| 5 | ‘ Sometimes I 'm so frustrated that I sit on a rock and shout my head off . |
| 6 | There are times when I go down to the beach at The Pit and I 'm the only surfer down there and I 'm so frustrated with it all that I sit on a rock and shout my head off . |
| 7 | I sit on a bench and re-read the morning paper , and try to do the crossword in my head . |
| 8 | ‘ I 've been brushing up on my Italian , ’ Molly 's father went on , ‘ with the aid of an extremely sexy-sounding signorina I got on a tape from the Fulham Public Library . |
| 9 | ‘ I became homeless in London so I got on a train and ended up here ; that 's all there is to it , really . ’ |
| 10 | There I got on a bus that took me to Le Hospitalet près l'Andorre , and through the frontier post at Pas de la Casa , over the Envalira pass and down into a land whose mountainous beauty at once put me under a spell I shall never forget . |
| 11 | I got on a bus and grudgingly paid my fare to the King 's Road . |
| 12 | At last I got on a bus , which trundled quite briskly to the far end of the King 's Road , but after World 's End , where the streets were darker , the fog seemed to close in and the bus was forced to nose its way cautiously along in first gear . |
| 13 | I hopped on a bus to King 's Cross and then took a tube round to Leicester Square , missing out Covent Garden station as the lifts were out of action again . |
| 14 | Very often I dined on a banana split , which was enormous : it consisted of a whole banana , three scoops of ice cream , syrup and whipped cream and only cost 25 cents ; we also lived on delicatessen sandwiches and salads and were so excited with the automats where we put our money in and out popped coffee . |
| 15 | I wandered on a yard or two , pretending to look elsewhere . |
| 16 | My attempts to look like a normal human being again were evidently not too successful — at one point in my journey , I came on a man crouching over a small brook from which he was trying to drink . |
| 17 | I came on a train here today from London in South Africa if you are black and you got on a train it would n't be as comfortable and there would be crowds in it but you would n't know whether you reached the other end because at some station a group of people would get on and shoot you indiscriminately , and get off again leaving that scene of massacre . |
| 18 | Yeah cos I went in that shop and I put on a size ten skirt and it was hanging . |
| 19 | ‘ As noon approached , I put on a raincoat and hat . |
| 20 | ‘ Once I put on a tie , I tend not to change it every day . |
| 21 | When I took it off afterwards , my hair was a mess , so I put on a turban or tied in back with a band , which is what I do every day . |
| 22 | As I put on a plaster in here an hour ago , I wondered if I 'd left it on that shelf above the sink . |
| 23 | I put on a stone after a recent holiday and I have n't got round to getting it off . |
| 24 | I put on a look of concern , but he shrugged . |
| 25 | I put on a bit of make-up — not like before , not like a freak , just enough to make me feel respectable . |
| 26 | Often I put on a record . |
| 27 | If I put on a vacuum cleaner and lie beside it , I go into a complete trance because the one note ringing inside the machine seems to relax me and hypnotise me . |
| 28 | Oh I put on a pound too . |
| 29 | I put on a flamenco record and roll a joint . |
| 30 | I put on a spacesuit , went outside and moved to the big round door . |