Example sentences of "when i [verb] [adv prt] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everyone was supportive when I dried up on my one and only line and we had to do it again . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | When I got out on the street , I would just keep going . |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 5 | What they had said really ‘ took seed ’ a few months later , when I set off on a world trip for seven months , and during that time the friend I was with , Ella , decided a few times , in different parts of the world , to lose some weight and tone up . |
| 6 | But the dream , ‘ When I come up on the Pools ’ became the Fifties equivalent of breaking the bank at Monte Carlo for the Edwardians . |
| 7 | When I go down on the table-cloths , the water runs over my hand . |
| 8 | ‘ As long as it sounds good when I go out on stage then it works for me . |
| 9 | ‘ I always wear a helmet when I go out on a bike , but I think we might have to make helmets a fashion accessory to get more children to wear them . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Cheryl , ’ she said carefully , ‘ when I walked in on you and Paula Engado , I was — surprised . |
| 11 | When I came out on top I immediately looked to starboard for the Pole Star and was rather shocked to find that it was oil the portside and we were obviously heading east , but by careful use of the engines was able to turn through 180° and the navigator gave me a heading after taking a sight from the astro compass . |
| 12 | Well , I suppose the Old Harry Rocks do bear a slight resemblance to the Needles , but I forgave him when I went up on deck and saw that Vigilant 's motor boat was following the yacht into Poole and had confirmed our proper position with Southampton . |
| 13 | that 's the one Mike 's mad on , and when I went in on , er |
| 14 | When I went back on the Wednesday , Miss Hale , the Headmistress of the Infants ' School asked why I had been absent . |
| 15 | When I checked up on his progress I was startled to find that he had not only planted up the four pots but his red wellington boots as well , liberally watering both them and himself and then garnishing with sprigs of a semi-dormant fuchsia as a finishing touch . |
| 16 | Yet when I looked back on the last hour or so I could come to only one conclusion . |
| 17 | Like our poor parliamentary candidate , I would have no chance of being elected , but it would be a beginning , though perhaps one I would have despised several years earlier when I looked down on parish-pump politics and intended to be the first woman prime minister . |
| 18 | Sleep is impossible yet the Commando in the next trench when I looked in on him was sleeping soundly , his face and arms uncovered and the mosquitoes completely ignoring him . |
| 19 | I 've always been a bit of an organiser , so when I looked in on ffeatherstonehaugh 's , started to go regularly and saw that things seemed to be in a bit of a mess , it seemed to me I might usefully give it some of my time . ’ |
| 20 | Asked about his first day , Terry said : ‘ I was stunned when I turned up on the Monday only to be confronted with the aftermath of the weekend fire . |
| 21 | I had n't been in a very good mood when I started out on this journey . |
| 22 | ‘ When I check up on him in the morning he asks for you . |
| 23 | Just now , when I pushed down on you , you knew straight away what was happening — there was a force of some kind . |
| 24 | Books on Buddhism line the walls and , when I lie down on my futon , I am covered with an ethnic rug of indeterminate origins . |
| 25 | On the subject of my aunts , I must share with you something which still makes me smile when I think back on those days of yore , which were for us children — halcyon days . |
| 26 | When I look back on those days now , I think how perfectly harmless it all was by comparison with today 's pornography . |
| 27 | I 'm 28 now and reasonably content with life but , when I look back on my childhood , I ca n't remember ever being happy . |
| 28 | She said : ‘ When I look back on 1992 I know I did n't give 100 per cent . |
| 29 | ‘ When I look back on 1992 I know that I did n't give 100 per cent , ’ Capriati confessed . |
| 30 | Now when I look back on that part of my life , I want to make a film and call it The Loneliness of the Long Distance Latent Lesbian . |