Example sentences of "i [verb] [pers pn] on " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
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| 1 | That was a nice picture — Marie liked it I think , cos she did n't mind me sticking it on the wall . |
| 2 | ‘ Let me congratulate you on your powers of recovery . |
| 3 | ‘ My dear friend , if you will allow me to call you that , ’ he cried , shaking both my hands , ‘ let me congratulate you on your fortune ! |
| 4 | Let me update you on my social security saga . |
| 5 | ‘ I waylaid him on his arrival . |
| 6 | I flung it on the open ledger on the table . |
| 7 | The process in this case did not reach its logical conclusion because Mr. Thorpe — I commend him on his ingenuity , a quality with which the nation knows he is amply endowed — found a way to secure the necessary care . |
| 8 | As I wiped them on my pinafore Mr Vulcan asked what was wrong with me . |
| 9 | Mind , when I read their story on erm I read them on Thursday afternoon and I said , right we better practise for nursery |
| 10 | I laid her on the conc you know , like the , the step out |
| 11 | I laid it on them over there in Washington — I mean , but hard . |
| 12 | The situation called for some drastic action and so I laid it on the line ; either they won this game or I would resign . |
| 13 | Folding the poem , I laid it on the table . |
| 14 | I laid it on soil ; the shoulders managed |
| 15 | I laid it on the floor and I was hit in the back . |
| 16 | ‘ I speak with Michael Odell inside ten minutes , or I raise him on the open line , ’ said Quinn carefully . |
| 17 | At the end of the day I thought it looked very attractive , but whether it will catch the eye of a customer when I display it on the craft stall is another matter . |
| 18 | I met her on a colectivo here in the capital , standing face to face in the rush-hour crowds . |
| 19 | I met her on my way to Weatherbury , but I did n't know then who she was . ’ |
| 20 | I 've got a potential describing Inverness I met her on the train the other day , a friend of my , he says |
| 21 | I met him on my last visit to Glasgow recently : a jolly , likeable man today . |
| 22 | He 's here all right — I met him on the shore two nights ago . |
| 23 | As Brian Clough told me when I met him on the top of the Little Elm bus earlier this season — we were both going to check out Little Elm Intaflora 's young Dutch forward , Kylie Van Der Graaf — ‘ Sadly , young man , football is like a football . ’ |
| 24 | Then I nearly fell over when Hywel walked in because I met him on the mountain and he gave me the eye . ’ |
| 25 | I MET HIM ON HOLIDAY |
| 26 | I met him on my first day at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art in 1965 . |
| 27 | I met him on holiday . |
| 28 | I met him on his way back here to report … ’ |
| 29 | So I met him on Wednesday evening Tottenham Court Road tube station and er chat , chat , chat . |
| 30 | One of these papers was a recent statement by the county education committee that no change in the status of the grammar school was contemplated : on that basis , I was able to reassure my anxious colleagues , when I met them on the first day of term , that abrupt change was not imminent . |