Example sentences of "i [vb past] on [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I lived on top of the sea , so the task of transporting the various fish home , and returning them if they were not suitable , posed few problems . |
| 2 | Erm but prior to coming to er live in the flats , I lived on Road in , erm next door to a mother and baby home . |
| 3 | I took her advice but , still not a skilled cook , and reluctant to waste time queuing for the use of the small gas-ring in the basement of the pavilion at the Cité Universitaire , I lived on bread and fruit , and on eggs , which could sometimes be bought , hard-boiled , from stalls in the streets . |
| 4 | The women I met on holiday were unanimous . |
| 5 | One man I met on holiday even suggested that sending aid to Africa was ‘ compounding the problem ’ because it allowed so many potential breeders to survive . |
| 6 | One man I met on holiday in Greece even suggested that sending aid to Africa was ‘ compounding the problem ’ because it allowed so many potential breeders to survive . |
| 7 | I got on top of her and as usual I did n't last very long , which annoyed me a bit because I did n't feel I was getting my money 's worth . |
| 8 | I got on bus here and he charged me thirty five P ! |
| 9 | Cos I nearly died I got on bus other day and they charged me eighty five pence I looked at me clock and it were twenty past nine . |
| 10 | All the electric I got on slot . |
| 11 | I tried on buttersoft leather jackets and tried out ‘ designer ’ bags . |
| 12 | I concentrated on smell and sound and taste . |
| 13 | At a period when I kept house in France and could lay hands on the Gruyère of the Comté I used on occasion to cook a similar version . |
| 14 | Commonly called yellow fumitory , it comes up like mustard and cress at the foot of every shady wall in the garden and I used to wrench it out with the ruthlessness I used on sycamore seedlings until I discovered it on sale in a nursery for well over £1 a plant . |
| 15 | That 's what I used on Rocket 's tummy , when he done , got that had a G two cortezone bathed him with Savlon |
| 16 | I gave him my least friendly look , he returned it and I sauntered on set looking serenely confident , chic-ly gowned etc … |
| 17 | When I came on deck to take my watch I found Viking swaying gently over a smooth swell , the cloud-wreathed Torridon mountains to port , and South Rona lighthouse fine on the starboard bow . |
| 18 | Soon after I came on board we finished loading . |
| 19 | There-has n't been a break since I came on board . |
| 20 | ‘ As soon as I came on board . |
| 21 | When I came on stage , the piano had been turned round the other way . |
| 22 | It 's not something I particularly thought an awful lot of until I came on crime prevention , because before that I was in police uniform with marked cars with the radio , although half the time in Harlow , the radios do n't work cos we 're getting . |
| 23 | P. H. One time I came on duty at Rose Hill and left my cape at the bottom of the stairs — on the banister . |
| 24 | Joyce Preston , who is also theatre manager of the Murrayfield Hospital in Thingwall , Wirral , said : ‘ Several weeks before Paula died I came on duty and Eddie was waiting at the theatre . |
| 25 | One question , and that is that I noticed on page three , er , you 've got your revised estimate with effect in ninety four , five , you 've got nothing . |
| 26 | Or perhaps , as I speculated on page 182 , all ‘ own ’ chromosomal genes should be regarded as mutually parasitic on one another . |
| 27 | I hid on bus seats , pressed myself into corners anything to evade the danger of being noticed and found wanting . |
| 28 | When I arrived on tie scene there appeared to be hundreds of people there , but a civilian — the works and bricks engineer seemed — to be the boss , and even the station commander was happily taking orders from him about filling sandbags and placing them on the Bund to strengthen it against the rising tide . |
| 29 | That was supposed to be battery back-up system , the one I threw on floor . |
| 30 | For the record , I stated on Radio Scotland , ‘ that amendment 27 if carried would not be a vote for the Social Chapter . ’ |