Example sentences of "[verb] on [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | you focussed on yourself enough to cry |
| 2 | At times she could imagine she was in an adjoining room at Jackdaw Cottage , eavesdropping on what they said . |
| 3 | Over the next few days , Syrian George taped an assortment of Arab cab-drivers in Tel Aviv broadcasting on taxi frequencies with r bits and pieces of low-level intelligence picked up from observations while driving around town and from eavesdropping on their fares ' back-seat conversations . |
| 4 | I passed to her the wisdom I picked up eavesdropping on our two eldest sisters , whose lives were then lived in romantic turmoil . |
| 5 | ‘ I could n't help eavesdropping on your conversation . ’ |
| 6 | He whined and shivered , and my young blood mixed on his slavering chops with gamey saliva and thick eye-mucus as he girned and looked shakily and pleadingly up at my father , who picked him up and strangled him . |
| 7 | Caterina twisted and beat on her sister 's back with her fists . |
| 8 | I mean , if I get any more songs submitted to me with a manky old Soul II Soul drum beat on them , I 'll be very angry indeed . |
| 9 | I 'll camp outside your cottage and beat on your door night and day till it finally gets into your stupid , dense head that I love you . ’ |
| 10 | Mariana beat on his shoulders , screaming at him to go back . |
| 11 | As the garrison watched him from the shelter of the verandah they could tell that the rain was having a bad effect on him ; he clearly did not like the way it beat on his head and shoulders raising a fine spray ; nor did he seem partial to the way it poured down the neck of his shirt and coursed down his trouser legs . |
| 12 | Zamora — he 's probably related to the guy Wayne beat on his Los Angeles debut five weeks ago ( who knows ? ) — hung in gallantly to weather the storm and was warmly embraced by McCullough at the finish . |
| 13 | Gabriel could see his own shadow , the shadow of his peacock wings , spreading out over them , and he felt the heat of the sun beat on his back . |
| 14 | A pulse of pressure from behind threw them against the factor , he turned and jumped for the door , beat on it , it opened abruptly , and he fell inside . |
| 15 | Three black youths with huge , multicoloured knitted caps pulled over their dreadlocks like tea-cosies lean against the plateglass window of the shopping-precinct cafe , drumming a reggae beat on it with their finger-tips until shooed away by the manageress . |
| 16 | ‘ Sleep on it , Jonadab . |
| 17 | There was a proviso though , the organs were 90 per cent likely to be a match , size , blood type , tissue type , compatibility , so sleep on it . |
| 18 | Sleep on it — and see for yourself . |
| 19 | Better , sleep on it |
| 20 | Maybe sleep on it . |
| 21 | ‘ Ah , well , sleep on it . |
| 22 | and then sleep on it ? |
| 23 | I sleep on my own in a big double bed in a big room with a view of the sea . ’ |
| 24 | He was in a filthy mood , first because I 'd suggested he sleep on my floor instead of at Sorrel 's so we could get an early start , then because I 'd made him wear a suit and tie to go with our Yuppie cover ( and because I 'd insisted on the shirt as well ) . |
| 25 | In the old days , the bride 's bouquet would be displayed in the entrance of her house for a day or so , and then a sprig of myrtle would be removed and planted to grow into a nice little bush , a sentimental memento to flourish on her estate and murmur ‘ constancy ’ into her subconscious . |
| 26 | I can call on no congressman to worry on my behalf . |
| 27 | He was no admirer of the casual Chief Inspector Jardine who had been wished on them . |
| 28 | It was a journey I would n't have wished on him . |
| 29 | he 's not given his committee it 's wished on him . |
| 30 | When I read Mary Gordon 's Final Payments a few years ago I shuddered with relief at having broken the spell of what had been wished on me . |