Example sentences of "[verb] on [pron] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In an extreme case , someone may act on them for the reason that , or on the principle that , ‘ a little bit of what you fancy does you good ’ . |
| 2 | ‘ You did n't jump on us like a friend , ’ Allen objected . |
| 3 | She was always surprised that things did n't fall on her from the sky more often , considering how much was up there these days . |
| 4 | Furthermore , the duty to uphold and support just institutions is , in some respects , wider than the duty which devolves on one as a result of the fact that someone has legitimate authority over one , in three different ways . |
| 5 | Similarly , as the hand wanders in a doodle , the mind is free to concentrate on something at the back of it : in this case , the ideas just put before the children . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ I believe , ’ said the commissioner who reported on it to the Health of Towns Commission in 1845 , |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He had often , in their earlier correspondence , spoken of a test or ideal that he wished to impose on himself as a rein on his passionate temperament and his over-eager response to physical beauty and joy . |
| 10 | O nine of four six four one six four one if you 'd like to comment on something in the news at the moment something on er Judy 's just said or er on this business of of life imprisonment , No longer to be the automatic penalty for murder judges to be given the freedom to impose whatever penalty they see fit . |
| 11 | And Melanie had spied on them through a keyhole , and would never get closer to them than the keyhole in the door behind which they lived . |
| 12 | ‘ Gloves , cane and collar astonish these artists in shirt-sleeves — they have always looked on them as the insignia of feeble-mindedness … still , it 's great to be in the thick of the dog-fights of great art . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ She 's only seven years older than me and so I 've never looked on her as a mother figure . |
| 14 | How long do they think the countryside will remain clean after they descend on it like a swarm of locusts with their cars , motorbikes and stereos ? |
| 15 | Off went the man into the woods only to return screaming for help with a huge grizzly gaining on him with every stride . |
| 16 | Typical of the kind of pain Dustin would put himself through , in order to get ‘ inside ’ a character , was the way in which he developed Ratso 's limp by placing stones in one shoe and then walking on them for a day . |
| 17 | This is another of Nic Picot 's tricks which he tried on me in the pub outside the Magic Circle . |
| 18 | The boy came over to Tallis and began to work on her with a knife . |
| 19 | So if four of us were to work on it as a group , |
| 20 | However , the scattered radiation does carry to Earth signatures impressed on it by the atmosphere above the clouds , and by the 1960s it had been established that this part of the atmosphere alone contained about 1000 times as much CO 2 as the whole atmosphere of the Earth . |
| 21 | Burton arrived at the first rehearsal word-perfect and with the part already sewn on him like a skin . |
| 22 | I sought guidance earlier , Mr. Deputy Speaker , and was advised that one could speak on anything in the Queen 's Speech , but if that is incorrect I shall confine my remarks to the council tax . |
| 23 | I got , do n't know if they stop doing it altogether now , I really do n't know what erm , you see , I 've got an old one , but it says on it on the voucher it 's not trans none transferable . |
| 24 | ( a ) Meetings and their conduct Whatever may have been agreed as to the taking of decisions by unanimous or majority vote , as much a matter of good management as of good faith is the need to ensure that all relevant information is given to all the partners before a vote is taken : the requisite majority of partners should not purport to take decisions and act on them behind the backs of the minority unless such has been expressly authorised or the need for immediate action precludes the convening of a partners ' meeting ; and even then there should be no delay before all partners are acquainted with the circumstances and invited to ratify any decision taken in their name . |
| 25 | Does your Windows 3.1 sometimes freeze on you without an error message of any kind ? |
| 26 | No that 's what they put on your on the top of your tombstone . |
| 27 | I 'd feel guilty if I started looking on myself as a victim . ’ |
| 28 | Keep your exercises plain and simple , and you have a better chance of enjoying them , rather than looking on them as a burden . |
| 29 | In the short term shells may be marked with blobs of paint or even by writing on them with a pencil , but a more permanent mark may be made by cutting a groove into the shell lip with a hacksaw . |
| 30 | As I prowled about outside the garden wall , it came on me with a start that a young , man was regarding me over the barrel of a pistol . |