Example sentences of "on [pron] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | But , perhaps most importantly , there was an end in sight and soon my mother — who nursed him heroically for most of the year , and on whom by far the heaviest load had fallen and would fall — once again took over from me . |
| 2 | This latter feature is , however , radiantly bestowed on everyone by the charismatic Norton . |
| 3 | This last phrase , used in my diary , is a revealing one : cold was n't something imposed on me by anything as trivial as the outside temperature ; it was something which could be controlled from within and by myself alone . |
| 4 | It took time to translate the political terms and conditions being imposed on me by my colonialist sisters , heavily disguised as they were under a veneer of , ‘ Of course we know the issues are different for Irish women ’ . |
| 5 | I was also on the receiving end of some pranks played on me by the cameramen . |
| 6 | ‘ He was dumped on me by your friend when he vanished , promising , of course , to be back in a day or two . ’ |
| 7 | laid on me by those men who specialise |
| 8 | They 'll have the black spot on me by then . |
| 9 | He took vulgar public revenge on me by mocking in the pages of Madame Bovary a seal I had once given him as a token of love . |
| 10 | ‘ Perhaps I do n't respond to challenges that are imposed on me by others ! ’ |
| 11 | I got 162 not out but Norman Doggart did the dirty on me by getting 173 . |
| 12 | Oh he and coming up that passage , run and jump right up on me by getting up my shirt . |
| 13 | It is likely that a good many protestant loyalists oscillate between the two and still have to come to their moment of decision , one that is likely to be forced on them by future events . |
| 14 | But the Foss men were famously militant , they had been ever since a young minister with lordly tastes and little scholarship had been foisted on them by the laird twelve years before and they had first boycotted him , then run him down the road on a cart . |
| 15 | In June 1977 the Strike Committee had finally had enough of these bureaucratic manipulations forced on them by APEX . |
| 16 | The family who had owned and operated the mill continued to live in the imposing nearby mill house , but were unable to fund a restoration of the redundant mill , so that when a Repairs Notice was served on them by the local authority , they were obliged to sell the building . |
| 17 | Robin Williams , Dead Poets Society : see Critic 's choice Virginia Mayo and James Cagney in Raoul Walsh 's classic 1949 production of White Heat … even movies as good as this ca n't live up to the praise lavished on them by some film reference books : see Critic 's choice Hear no equal , see no equal … |
| 18 | One problem is whether companies will be able to bear the debt burdens heaped on them by leveraged buy-outs , particularly in the United States . |
| 19 | ENGLAND and Holland have declined to enter the sixth European Women 's Indoor Cup early next month because it has been sprung on them by the European federation . |
| 20 | Labour showed some chagrin that the Tories had stolen a march on them by ending conscription , but even Aneurin Bevan , the shadow Foreign Secretary and a unilateralist at heart , accepted the need for the British nuclear deterrent , making his famous remark that to abandon it would ‘ send a British Foreign Secretary , whoever he may be , naked to the conference table ’ . |
| 21 | Some of the thirty thousand workers employed at the Midlands plants , incensed by the idleness forced on them by the Merseysiders and alarmed at the bleak prospect ahead , stormed through the streets to Clem Bunker 's regional office demanding action to get the Merseyside plants back to work . |
| 22 | Early Christian popular ascetic literature abounds with stories of women who reject the fiancés imposed on them by their families , and even reject their husbands . |
| 23 | So too was the rhetorical advantage conferred on them by their command of microphones . |
| 24 | Thousands of ostraka have been dug up , the most famous being a batch of 191 with Themistocles 's name inscribed on them by only four separate hands — either fraud or an anti-Themistocles hit squad ensuring that the illiterate did not miss the chance to vote . |
| 25 | Perhaps some forgiving souls might protest that former East German athletes had faced a particular difficulty in giving up the bad habits imposed on them by the success-seeking machine of the old Communist regime , and that it would be unfair virtually to close off their future just because they had n't yet properly learned another way of doing things . |
| 26 | ‘ I 've had to make amazing demands on them by asking them to take time off work . |
| 27 | It repeals a duty conferred on them by the existing regime to monitor the wholesomeness of water in their areas . |
| 28 | The parents were delighted that the decision was theirs and was not imposed on them by others . |
| 29 | As money lenders , they enjoyed comparative political freedom and were directly subject to the Royal Chamber without any restriction imposed on them by the guilds . |
| 30 | No-one can have shown Americans round cities such as London , Brighton or Bristol and not been subjected to gasps of horror when they see the depredation wrought on them by ill-sited high buildings and demolished streets . |