Example sentences of "i [vb past] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I asked on a hunch . |
| 2 | Oh mind , it was quite light , it was n't and I saddled on the path and I did n't , I do n't take chances . |
| 3 | Near a tombstone-memorial by the wayside , I gazed on a crowd of boys . |
| 4 | And now I look back on the years I wasted on the building sites and I should 've become a policeman ea a lot earlier cos it 's great fun . |
| 5 | I had become interested in the Sudan itself after reading Samuel Baker 's books , but at first my interest was largely in the wild life and the big-game hunting in the Southern Sudan ; then at Eton I chanced on The River War , Winston Churchill 's vivid account of Kitchener 's campaign to reconquer the Sudan from the Khalifa . |
| 6 | Could you please tell me : a ) how much I made on the deal ; b ) year of manufacture and finally ; c ) why is the thing so rare ? |
| 7 | I made on the deal , but when I switched it on my first thought was : uh-oh . |
| 8 | The woman from Ty Fach has found the pictures that I made on the rock , and the little woman with her has looked at them . |
| 9 | Apart from the few noises I made on the path , all I could hear was the very occasional and distant roar of heavy trucks on the road through town . |
| 10 | Er , he did after a while because there just are n't that many people who run round the N E C who look me in July , but erm , there were conventions earlier in the year , but it , it , you know , I got , actually a very reasonable size of contract out of this man , from that thirty second note I made on the calendar . |
| 11 | The revenue settlement is matched by the substantial local government capital settlement for ninety four five which I announced on the thirtieth of November . |
| 12 | I pounced on the quotation because she had no right , no right at all to burden me with her doubts , after a year , and after everything . |
| 13 | Let me try I was wondering why he was doing it then I realized on the tape she done that in n it . |
| 14 | I think probably that was probably London but in the north I lived on the north east coast in a very small town and some of I mean my memories are quite different in a way . |
| 15 | I lived on the plain . |
| 16 | Now when er when I was coming down er , coming from , I lived on the Green then , to go to work , we used to met er a person and we used to call her Rosie . |
| 17 | At that time I lived on the flat and rather featureless coast of East Anglia , and spent most of my spare time sailing its lonely creeks and estuaries . |
| 18 | I wonder if the friendly gent from Gloucester I met on the bank at Bo'ness some days back has noted that steam is heading his way on Saturday ? |
| 19 | I had already made one friend who I met on the induction day . |
| 20 | At the last , slightly shorter if I remember , it had been a 3- or a 4-iron for the second shot and I thought back to 1958 and the fourth at Lytham , But this rime the boss and I agreed on the 3-iron . |
| 21 | Toshack was out of work at the time , so I passed on the offer . |
| 22 | I passed on the information which came my way . |
| 23 | I checked on the school , and found that the man who had owned it went away with his wife when the school closed . |
| 24 | Like Claudia , I have an interest in the NEC show , and it 's time I checked on the progress of my entries . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ I became homeless in London so I got on a train and ended up here ; that 's all there is to it , really . ’ |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | ‘ 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 . |
| 28 | I got on a bus and grudgingly paid my fare to the King 's Road . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | And when I t when I got on a Friday and and paid me wages over to me Mum , which was natural for you to do , I always got th thre three pennies back . |