Example sentences of "i [vb past] on [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like this conversation I overheard on Uros . |
| 2 | And still I surfed on Manhattan static . |
| 3 | David has done some transcription this week , erm and I 've done a bit , erm and that 's basically , well we 've got one side of , you 've got one side of those lectures to do erm and I 've got some of the recording that I made on Thursday to do and that and that . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Yeah well at least you lot eat up more healthy foods , I live on cr I lived on crisps and chocolate and chips over the holidays . |
| 8 | The women I met on holiday were unanimous . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | And when I daydream of its beauty I think , too , of the people I met on Koraloona , of Doc Reid , the eccentric , wayward medic who first taught me about the island ; Bill Robins , the captain of the Mantela when our ship was attacked , and who before that was to become my first real friend ; Jason Purvis , the starving beachcomber and would-be great novelist who at last did achieve a kind of fame ; Paula Reece , the beautiful American with cold , appraising eyes who so loved the island — and several of its free and happy inhabitants . |
| 12 | I did it once with a Kraut I met on Piccadilly Underground . |
| 13 | Mind you , that was n't Washbrook 's best opening stand — and I passed on greetings on Wednesday from Surrey , where Sir Leonard Hutton lives . |
| 14 | Back to Dan again , ‘ I checked on Charlie on the way home and his bleeding had stopped due to the extreme cold at high altitude . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | I do n't know , you can look at the old Telegraph and see if it 's , the Telegraph I got on Thursday night or Friday night |
| 17 | I got on bus here and he charged me thirty five P ! |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | All the electric I got on slot . |
| 20 | Becaus I mean , the the one I 've got here , the one I 've got , erm , er that I taped on Saturday night , there 's seven people on it , and they all keep cutting across each other on it , it would just be impossible . |
| 21 | I tried on buttersoft leather jackets and tried out ‘ designer ’ bags . |
| 22 | Know what I caught on Wednesday night do you ? ! |
| 23 | I concentrated on Ziegler and Ion Manescu . |
| 24 | I concentrated on smell and sound and taste . |
| 25 | ‘ I concentrated on toys for pre-school children because I thought I knew about them . |
| 26 | I mused on Toby 's story as I walked towards the clubhouse and so intent was I on my thoughts that I nearly knocked over Sally Drayton as I passed the PGA hut . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | That 's what I used on Rocket 's tummy , when he done , got that had a G two cortezone bathed him with Savlon |
| 30 | I gave him my least friendly look , he returned it and I sauntered on set looking serenely confident , chic-ly gowned etc … |