Example sentences of "i [vb base] [verb] on [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At dusk the H.50 's captain , Lieutenant-Commander Mervyn Wingfield , signalled the Worcester 's captain , Lieutenant-Commander Ian Maitland-Magill-Crichton , ‘ In the event of enemy attack I intend to remain on surface . ’ |
| 2 | I intend to concentrate on provision for the 18 per cent unstatemented pupils who remain in mainstream schools but who , as Warnock reminded us , have special needs . |
| 3 | ‘ There 's something I want to see on television , ’ I lied . |
| 4 | ‘ Afterwards I want to go on haj , to visit Mecca . |
| 5 | ‘ Sylvia and I want to go on record as protesting this outrageous incident in the ssstrongest possible articulation . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I want to stay on top and win the order of merit as well , ’ said Lane , a former Scottish Open champion who has his wife , Melanie , to thank for spotting the reason behind his recent poor putting . |
| 7 | At this point , someone might rightly argue : ‘ I happen to live on earth , and it is here that I want to have a happy marriage ! ’ |
| 8 | I like to go on holiday but I always like to come back . ’ |
| 9 | Although David Thorpe was in essence a still-life photographer , I remember going on location in Germany to do a car campaign , and we also used to do many portraits — there was a tremendous variety in what we were doing . ’ |
| 10 | I remember going on tour with an all-male cast and every time we got to any town we used to run and get the paper to see if some show with a chorus was on , because we knew all the guys were gay and all the girls were free . |
| 11 | I do insist on silence and things like that , when I 'm talking . |
| 12 | Erm I think based on table nine erm the increase er by thirty four workers per hectare would cause Craven some problems . |
| 13 | ‘ I think going on holiday is a very bourgeois sort of thing to do . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I aim to concentrate on youth , with one or two old heads . |
| 15 | I spoke with the MM who had never heard of me , never read anything I had written and never heard anything I 've said on radio , e.g. to callers on advice line phone-ins . |
| 16 | No he is n't Jane , but you ca n't really blame him , I 've gone on record , er it 's a case of repeating yourself , it 's not his fault ; the players when they 're out there on the pitch , they ca n't do it . |
| 17 | I 've gone on duty with clothes drenched — you 'd have night uniform on , and a cape . |
| 18 | You start to think , well of course , had I done so-and-so yesterday , had I done , and I 've missed on so- and-so , so you sort of , review the day for a couple of hours , and then it gets to about four o'clock and now you 're thinking , Oh my God , I 'm at the accountants the next day , I 'll be so tired , I 'll be you know , and it 's too late to do anything about it now , so now you 're having a bad day the next day as well because you 've got yourself all stewed up about that . |
| 19 | I 've lived on Skomer for six years now and before that I looked after a smaller seabird reserve on St Margaret 's Island . |
| 20 | As I 've touched ON meter boxes … |
| 21 | Which is funny , because all the Manson girls that I 've seen on film and stuff , when they talk about Charlie 's music they always say , he was great , he was as good as Tom Jones ! |
| 22 | Yeah that that used to be I 've seen on film I 've seen that you know like in Stornoway and places like that they carried the coffins |
| 23 | It 's the best performance I 've seen on screen all year , ’ says one member of the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences , who give the awards . |
| 24 | Tell me about the pedal board I 've seen on stage … |
| 25 | Asked where he 's been since he and Stephen Luscombe went their separate ways , the man who once lived on the ceiling claims : ‘ Apart from trying to find the best dog in the world , I 've worked on film scores , including one for an animated film , several pieces for Channel 4 documentaries as well as the incidental music for a Radio 4 play . |
| 26 | but that 's no problem for me , it used to be a problem but it is n't now because I 've worked on building up my confidence in other things so I 'm good at quite a lot of things and I always keep re-enforcing that that I 'm good at doing these things . |
| 27 | And erm you know , I I 've had on occasion , when there have been a couple of people in our flat , we had n't either done or said anything . |
| 28 | And the last three weeks I 've put on road safety because I know there 's a lot of road safety stuff |
| 29 | I 'm a practical sort of person and perhaps I can refer to my area of work as the President said since nineteen eighty four I 've concentrated on health and safety and workplace legislation . |
| 30 | One track I 've omitted on purpose the Barcarolle from Tales of Hoffman , in which Dame ‘ Bella ’ is joined by Nellie Walker , and does not attempt to sing it with herself as Elisabeth Schumann did . |