Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] on [pers pn] with [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two liquid brown eyes gazed on them with mild curiosity , rising and falling with the pull of the waves . |
| 2 | Lucifer turned on them with such ferocity that some actually fell backwards off their benches . |
| 3 | Charity was very aware of two things : that Matthew made no attempt to define his relationship with her , and that Sandra Bamfield 's golden , cat-like eyes narrowed on her with vague suspicion . |
| 4 | When the eggs are cool , paint faces on them with felt-tip pens . |
| 5 | The Yugoslav media ( which claimed only four fatalities from these incidents ) said that police had acted in self defence after demonstrators fired on them with automatic weapons . |
| 6 | RIGHT It is essential that excavated finds are washed clean and their context number marked on them with waterproof ink . |
| 7 | For this reason , the seventeenth century looked on it with varying degrees of embarrassed caution and suspicion . |
| 8 | The Shah now showed himself incapable of decisive action , Dispatches form Both the British and the American embassies at the time commented on him with patronizing contempt . |