Example sentences of "[vb -s] [pron] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | You are the only woman I know — apart from Lucy — who wears skirts and dresses and make-up and turns me on more powerful than a monsoon with all the steam and heat … |
| 2 | That turns me on that does . |
| 3 | When I 'm fighting my sister he kicks me on the wotsit . ’ |
| 4 | Pa sits me on the wooden bench he has built facing the altar , and himself sits down next to me . |
| 5 | For example , the snake uses its forked tongue to gather scent particles from the air and tastes them on a special membrane , called Jacobson 's organ , at the back of its mouth . |
| 6 | The terms of the contracts in this category are rarely negotiated ; instead , they are prepared by or for one party who effectively imposes them on the other party to the contract , saying " If you want to do business with me , you must use my terms " . |
| 7 | The computer accepts wrongly-spelled words , nonsense words and rude words and displays them on screen in the story to the amusement of the class . |
| 8 | Ali pats me on the hand . |
| 9 | TIM PEACOCK joins them on the road and discovers that they 're dab hands at snooker , Ian T Tilton gets them in the frame . |
| 10 | TIM PEACOCK joins them on the road and discovers that they 're dab hands at snooker , Ian T Tilton gets them in the frame . |
| 11 | She joins me on the carpet , and we all sit blowing on our coffees and warming our hands on the mugs . |
| 12 | First , cases of ‘ excessive defence ’ have a grounding in legal justification , in that the occasion was one which justified the use of some force , and this places them on a higher social plateau than killings with no element of justification at all . |
| 13 | In this connection McClellan has written that the librarian does not reject books , but places them on a ‘ scale of accessibility ’ . |
| 14 | So massive a change of emphasis must be of fundamental significance , not only to the anthropologist and the social historian , but to the child psychologists , psychiatrists and psychotherapists whose very existence as a group depends upon the climate of opinion which regards their professional skills as valuable and necessary , and which places them on an equal footing in social esteem with the more anciently respected callings of the paediatrician and the pedagogue . |
| 15 | ‘ To the well-deserving Gaius Seius I leave and wish to be granted in addition that neither from him nor from his heirs should be claimed whatever he owes me on the basis of documents or accounts or has borrowed from me or I have guaranteed for him . ’ |
| 16 | Maria ties up the contents in parcels , and ( I believe ) exposes them on the hillside like unwanted infants . |
| 17 | ( Hartman has shown that the average person has one or less nightmares a year ; and only one person in 500 has them on a weekly basis . ) |
| 18 | That 's what has them on the run although , in the end , they 'll be forced to give birth . |
| 19 | It focusses them on some of the visual clues they might otherwise miss . |
| 20 | By Christ , Dan , how you 've lasted as long as you have amazes me on its own ! ’ |
| 21 | Perhaps I 'm too hard on her , but the whole thing has me on edge . |
| 22 | ‘ Wogan wants me on Friday . |
| 23 | he finishes them on Monday and if he 's no better by then , cos nobody |
| 24 | Roald Dahl has nothing on Lewis Carroll when it comes to the grotesque . |
| 25 | WHEN it comes to press manipulation , the Ministry of Defence has nothing on Apple Corporation , maker of the famous Apple microcomputer . |
| 26 | The Hampton Court maze has nothing on this lot . |
| 27 | Dick Whittington has nothing on him . |
| 28 | Even if a Black girl has nothing on her , it frightens her to death . |
| 29 | ‘ Because he has nothing on his conscience , ’ Daalny snapped triumphantly , ‘ just as I said . ’ |
| 30 | The squirrel has nothing on this : |