Example sentences of "[verb] on [pers pn] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That conflict of views has its fierce advocates on both sides , and I am neither well informed nor dispassionate enough to comment on it From the presumed perspective of John Howard , the Ellis-Beto administrations overall emerge with credit , because they did insist on the publication of official rules , and that was a big breakthrough . |
| 2 | And then he was passing beneath the huge , towering Gates , and he saw how they stretched above him into infinity , and he felt the timelessness of the great Prison descend on him like a huge , unseen weight . |
| 3 | Martha shook her head , feeling tiredness descend on her like the low cloud on the mountains , muffling all her emotions . |
| 4 | This weighed on him like an inactive dreadnought suit of combat armour , imprisoning him ; and he sought his enhanced clarity , as it were , to restore power to that suit . |
| 5 | The reflections flickered on her like a distant storm . |
| 6 | These ledgers can be easily subdivided , enabling several clerks to work on them at the same time and it is also easier to withdraw old accounts and insert new ones in their place . |
| 7 | I had to work on them for a long time . |
| 8 | Despite its boulevards in the north , the city was never as monotonous as the centre of Paris after Baron Haussmann had really got down to work on it in the 1860s . |
| 9 | Marcus had shattered that soft innocence when he had turned on her like a rabid dog , snapping , destroying , infecting … |
| 10 | Moreover , ‘ They were all madly highly-sexed like the Starkadders ’ , she told an interviewer earlier in the decade , ‘ and I think a lot of the laughing at that kind of thing in Cold Comfort Farm comes from a ‘ distaste ’ … if you have it thrust on you from an early age , with divorces left , right and centre and people chasing each other round tables … well . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ This has gone too far , ’ she stormed , rounding on him like a vengeful fury . |
| 12 | They all run the recently-released version 6 of the company 's Unix SVR4-based DRS/NX operating system , though Unix Systems Labs ' Destiny will appear on them during the first quarter of next year . |
| 13 | Rome looking on them as a devoted couple . |
| 14 | By the early eighteenth century , the Jacobite supporters of the deposed king had become closely associated with popery , and the English church and state had assumed the role of a full and active member of the international Protestant alliance , a role which radical Protestants at home had been unsuccessfully urging on them throughout the previous century and a half . |
| 15 | The boy was holding a magnifying glass over a postcard and writing on it in the tiniest hand . |
| 16 | Shamji , who was also ordered to pay £28,960 costs , had asked the Appeal Court to reduce the sentence imposed on him at the Old Bailey on October 30 . |
| 17 | Perhaps some forgiving souls might protest that former East German athletes had faced a particular difficulty in giving up the bad habits imposed on them by the success-seeking machine of the old Communist regime , and that it would be unfair virtually to close off their future just because they had n't yet properly learned another way of doing things . |
| 18 | Even more than in the 1930s , the TUC were imprisoned within constraints imposed on it by a capitalist wage-structure : the TUC argued strongly for adequate pensions ( denying , for example , that an old person needed less to eat ) ; but if this was to be implemented without encouraging further wage-cuts to elderly workers , then it appeared to them inevitable that a retirement condition must be introduced . |
| 19 | I have already described the tremendous impression that Hydén 's experiments — in which he measured increases in RNA and protein synthesis in tiny cellular regions from the brains of rats trained to balance on wires to reach for food — made on me as a young post-doc . |
| 20 | The best trainees and established dealers had little beyond brief academic demands made on them in the early days . |
| 21 | Obviously many look on it as a significant occasion which is very , very flattering ’ . |
| 22 | Look on it as an extra bit of security for all that money you 've invested in the station . |
| 23 | Although this involves the use of rather advanced techniques compared with the running of simple transfers and dubs , many enthusiasts believe that this type of editing is essential to the making of ‘ real ’ movies , and look on it as the key creative element in their video activities . |
| 24 | Look on it from a medical angle if you like , as a cure for an ailment . ’ |
| 25 | Look on it in the same way as the treads on your bike or car tyres . |
| 26 | He stood in the hallway puffing on it for a few seconds to make sure it was fully alight . |
| 27 | His head turned on me with a snake-like swiftness , accusingly , but he said nothing . |
| 28 | Because of DM/SVR4 's Transport Library Interface ( TLI ) , it will not need OSF 's DCE to run , though it will apparently run on it in a later release as it will also be DME-compatible . |
| 29 | Honey magazine recognized this and acted on it in an extraordinary way with the launch of the ‘ Honey boutiques ’ in the major conurbations , so that the groovy styles portrayed in the magazine could be had by hitherto deprived readers in whatever part of the sticks they had the misfortune to live , with no more trouble than a Saturday day return fare . |
| 30 | That Cheetah has the name ‘ Bert ’ engraved on it as a permanent memorial to Bert Mason who has worked unstintingly on bringing the Cheetahs back to life and had worked at 42 AS during the war years . |