Example sentences of "i [vb base] on a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 … |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | I sit on a smooth stone and watch yellow-breasted finches in their dipping flights across the still-warm air . |
| 4 | ‘ I depend on a manual wheelchair for all movement away from my car . |
| 5 | ‘ I look forward to seeing you again soon , though I hope on a social rather than a professional basis . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | And then in the air it stiffens very slightly as it cools down , but I think on a nice warm day like this is might be . |
| 9 | I know I live on a fierce and magical planet , which sheds or surrenders rain or even flings it off in whipstroke after whipstroke , which fires out bolts of electric gold into the firmament at 186,000 miles per second , which with a single shrug of its tectonic plates can erect a city in half an hour . |
| 10 | I like to understand the meanings of words and always refer to a dictionary when I come on a new word . |
| 11 | I settle on a simple cotton dress , black , and a pair of dangling earrings . |