Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] on [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A couple of anachronisms fighting it out here while real life moved in on them from the east almost unnoticed . |
| 2 | Indeed there are strong resemblances between them , especially when one looks back on them from the present day and across all that has happened in theology since Ritschl . |
| 3 | By contrast , he did inherit a destructive family situation which weighed heavily on him for the rest of his life . |
| 4 | A square of amber light shone down on them from the open hatch . |
| 5 | The sun shone down on her through the glass , and added to the headache that was gathering behind her eyes . |
| 6 | The great , distinguished people of the world do not know that these beggars can in the pride of their souls , look down on them as the unfortunate ones , who are left on the shore for their worldly uses , but whose life ever misses the touch of the lover 's arms . ’ |
| 7 | look down on you in the middle class ! |
| 8 | Singly and in groups , these aristocratic figures look down on us from the walls of the Crousel-Robelin-Bama gallery , proud survivors of a vanishing world . |
| 9 | International art , culture and politics , as immortalised by Pino Settanni , look down on us from the walls of the Hadrian Thomas gallery until 28 June . |
| 10 | The snipers , who fired directly on us despite the presence of an army officer , appeared determined to drive out a team which had come to investigate rumours of a massacre of Muslim women and children by Serbs . |
| 11 | His admirable Swiss detectives had checked up on her with the central police register of foreigners , and then elicited the information from the police in Jersey . |
| 12 | I explained , as gently as possible , that my mother was very old-fashioned and always checked up on me in the morning . |
| 13 | Later , when the Northern Ireland Office was established , it relied heavily on it for the information on which it based security and political activities . |
| 14 | The sun seared down on us through the thin air , and when we slowed and turned our own cloud of dust enveloped us . |
| 15 | Is it perhaps an identity taken from the white bearskin rug on his study floor ( which he first mentions in a letter to Louise Colet of August 1846 , telling her that he likes to stretch out on it during the day . |
| 16 | I know that whether it was trying to dig him up for some doubles at Kyalami or just dropping in on him aboard the Queen Mary , I always called up first to make sure he was not otherwise engaged , and I can recall many times when James appeared at the track looking benign but far from fresh . |
| 17 | Above , Ruth 's white face looked down on her from the window . |
| 18 | She felt reassured from the article that other people suffered the same symptoms as she did , and could already identify her own propensity to jump to the conclusion that people looked down on her in the absence of any hard evidence . |
| 19 | Small boys spat down on him from the safety of high windows and their mothers clenched their buttocks and turned away their glowing cheeks . |
| 20 | Swales might , at last , have made a wise decision — if he does not go back on it at the first sign of failure . |
| 21 | Unidentified creatures paced about near their camp , and green eyes looked out on them from the bushes . |
| 22 | Unidentified creatures paced about near their camp , and green eyes looked out on them from the bushes . |
| 23 | ‘ I was so afraid you would be hurt , then I found myself wondering if I could trust David or whether he would walk out on me at the first sign of trouble . ’ |
| 24 | And I hope you have n't gone to any trouble cooking for me because I can barely keep owt down these days , not after t'hospital , me appetite quite sickened away on me wi' the things they serve up — greasy bits o' beef skirt and nasty little salads wi' half a two-week old egg and a few outside leaves o' lettuce and a bit o' wet beetroot , no , it was an effort getting it down , let alone keeping it down — I can tell you , there was many as could n't , eggs from t'infernal regions we got for us breakfast as often as not , right stink bombs , but could you get any o' them nurses to have a sniff or give us another i'stead ? |
| 25 | ‘ I gave up on you in the end and bought some myself . ’ |
| 26 | If the centre parties were seen to be self-interested in blocking the formation of a government through their insistence on a deal to introduce electoral reform then this could reflect badly on them in the election so cutting back their seats — and the prospect for proportional representation . |
| 27 | Easily distinguishable in his bird-lime-encrusted shirt and shorts , he often had a look in his eye that spoke of clouds and freedom , rather than the shin-splitting hordes bearing down on him in the shape of the Corton Heath Corinthians . |
| 28 | Oh , hello … ’ the Doctor replied , not able to tell who was bearing down on him in the fog . |
| 29 | ‘ Then we come up on me in the studio . |
| 30 | ’ Monika claims 38-year-old Father Christopher O'Neill ran out on her before the birth of their daughter Jennifer . |