Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] on [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | It is at the level of explanation that the sexism of sociolinguistics is most blatantly on display , and I want to concentrate on it in the remainder of this section . |
2 | And I tried to get on it at the beginning of the week but he told me it was fully booked . |
3 | Others may need to rely on it pending the grant of legal aid . |
4 | Its bluish-black eyes seemed to focus on her for the first time . |
5 | She wanted to make Dan sound as good as possible and after some of the stunts he 'd played on her in the past that was difficult . |
6 | I 'd worked on it as the slide projectionist One of the reasons we were all so keen on going to the party was that Faustus was a joint production with the local girls school . |
7 | Mattox 's campaign presented her silence on this subject as an expression of guilt , although the drugs issue backfired on him in the final days of the campaign when witnesses claimed to have seen him smoking marijuana in the early 1970s , a claim which he vehemently denied . |
8 | They do n't have superhuman powers to help them deal with the superstar image and pressures that they have had to put on them by the media and their fans . |
9 | Sometimes Henry wondered whether the junk food industry was going to be able to take the kind of demands Maisie was going to make on it in the years ahead . |
10 | Cowards — preferring to spy on him from the shadows and whisper lies . |
11 | You are not helping the players , because if you try to do that they will come to rely on you in the actual performance . |
12 | Given too free a hand during years when he , like David II earlier , had fallen into English captivity , they resented the disciplines which their returning king was determined to impose on them in the cause of national unification . |
13 | We had indeed , and Denis was in a filthy mood because his motorbike had died on him on the way into Cambridge and he had had to push it five miles back — and he had been taking his temper out on me ever since lunchtime . |
14 | ‘ I really am sorry , ’ he repeated and wondered why it was that these lunches , designed as an escape from responsibility , had begun to weigh on him with the weariness of marriage itself . |
15 | Edward Pitt had called on them in the evening . |
16 | There , next to Miss Temple , stood the same black column which had frowned on me in the breakfast-room at Gateshead . |
17 | She could not believe she had rounded on him in the way she had . |
18 | At that lunch in the Oxford and Cambridge he was in the sombre mood that had descended on him with the signing of the Munich Agreement . |
19 | He was honest enough to admit that he had to rely on me for the practical side of the business , and gave me a good rise in pay . |
20 | The wind surged around the little car , streaking past across the expanse of long brown grass still flattened from the snow that had lain on it over the winter . |