Example sentences of "[verb] on she [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | In other words , according to this view , Germany along with all the other nations stumbled into war in nineteen fourteen , was then declared , simply because she was the defeated party , declared to be the guilty party , erm had punitive terms imposed on her at the Treaty of Versailles , and as a result of this moved towards extremism in internal politics , with the erm consequence that the Democratic Republic of Weimar collapsed , erm Hitler came to power , and Hitler was some kind of evil person , a Satanic messenger from Hell , who first of all visited his atrocities on , on the Germans before doing the same to Europe as a whole . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Mr Butner — who developed a friendly , working relationship with Diana — eventually called on her at the palace . |
| 5 | Earlier she had played Juliet ; and there had been much adulation showered on her by the public and the newspapers . |
| 6 | The fact that Anne now relied on her to the extent of being somewhat lost without her , gave Joan a curious but none the less pleasurable sense of power . |
| 7 | She is pleasant enough but how reliable I can not say and I am not depending on her for the birth . |
| 8 | His golden shadow fell on her from the lamp . |
| 9 | A black depression descended on her at the thought . |
| 10 | It may be right to guess that Athens ' ambitious foreign policy of this period , which includes diplomacy with a non-Greek town far in the interior of Sicily ( ML 37 = Fornara 81 , an alliance with Segesta in 457 ) , was forced on her by the need to seek alternative supplies of corn , because her usual overseas sources had for some reason become precarious . |
| 11 | A head collar was eventually put on her in the chute , and when she threw her head up in anxiety a roustabout hit her on the face with a lump of wood ‘ for being so stupid ! ’ |