Example sentences of "[to-vb] on [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I can call on no congressman to worry on my behalf . |
| 3 | The wilful amateurism and naïveté started to grate on everybody 's nerves . |
| 4 | Julius followed her , not saying anything but just watching her , until his intense gaze began to grate on her nerves even more badly than the approaching storm . |
| 5 | I saw him move the mat so it should be on a slippery bit and then sort of pretend to slip on it , and then start to shout . ’ |
| 6 | Bernini was arguably the most important architect and sculptor in my period and Charles had effectively indicated that I was not competent to lecture on him . |
| 7 | If you want to jump on something you jump on the trampoline . |
| 8 | How can I forget the day when , playing at hunch-kuddy-hunch ( or some silly antics ) , when the object was to jump on someone 's back and get a free ride along the street , it would end in pain and great discomfort for me ? |
| 9 | I 'm not going to jump on you and seduce you the minute we 're behind closed doors . |
| 10 | In fact probably you 'd move more cos he says yo your instinct is take your feet off I think your instinct would be to jump on it all the harder . |
| 11 | The hedge was fast approaching , looking too big , far too big for Buttons to jump on his own . |
| 12 | He walked from the room and Kate felt an urge to jump on his back and tear his hair out . |
| 13 | On one occasion they got so swollen headed that they were charging the children a penny each to try on their hats . |
| 14 | That would be a good one for you to try on your own . |
| 15 | ‘ Mama , I want to try on my new dress , ’ Anna said . |
| 16 | I want to try on my costume . |
| 17 | it 's the sort of thing you want to try on someone else 's |
| 18 | I never needed the alarm clock or Mum or Bri to hammer on my door . |
| 19 | ‘ And take this also , for you will have charges to meet on your journey . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ They talked about the glory of the family and then taught children to inform on their parents . |
| 21 | ‘ And marriage itself might have been a useful bit of insurance for Gustav : her relatives or guardians would have been less likely to inform on her husband than on some passing stranger who could get his trousers open in Olympic time . ’ |
| 22 | The man 's a fleecer who sha n't get away with it , and you … ’ she pointed a yellow finger at James , ‘ have a duty to inform on him . ’ |
| 23 | Larry Parks is remembered for being one of the first to inform on his Communist friends before the committee , better remembered perhaps than he is for impersonating Al Jolson in two films which made him , at that time , a star . |
| 24 | It emerges that the head maltster has been asked to inform on his behaviour to the police . |
| 25 | It was in this atmosphere of craven piety that Lillian Hellman , the playwright who had carte blanche in Hollywood to write what pictures she liked , administered a cold douche to the nation 's conscience by stating unequivocally that she refused to inform on anybody else but herself . |
| 26 | You 're going to get a real whipping now , and the only time you speak is to tell us you 're ready to inform on your friends . |
| 27 | A cannon requires a full crew to work properly — to carry cannon balls , load gunpowder , push the machine round to bear on its target , and so on . |
| 28 | People should not steal , kill , wound gratuitously ; when they did , they should pay ; and pressure was brought to bear on them to make sure that they complied . |
| 29 | They are also very confident people with a secure sense of their own identity , and are able to resist the various pressures brought to bear on them by friends , relatives and society . |
| 30 | But we are not seen merely as passive recipients in these interaction processes ; we bring our own autonomous motives and meanings to bear on them — we are at least partially ‘ free ’ . |