Example sentences of "on [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | you came up on me without warning |
| 2 | He was the young player who had made such an impression on me during my year on the amateur tour . |
| 3 | I did only one series of interviews with him and I do n't think it rubbed off on me to that extent . |
| 4 | What happens if there 's an assault on me to be taken into the reckoning ? |
| 5 | As he said , ‘ My position and my name impose obligations on me of whose importance I am well aware . ’ |
| 6 | There 's a young woman of 17 who lives just down the road from me and has taken to calling on me of late . |
| 7 | The picture I am trying to convey , and it is one which is borne on me with passionate intensity almost every time I enter a primary school class , is of rigid and often unsuitable instruments ( the centralised curriculum plan , textbooks , methods of assessment ) imposed in situations where they do not apply or where they apply only to a small number of individuals within a group . |
| 8 | He turned on me with one of his nastiest looks . |
| 9 | Jeff Ritcher , my choreographer , has spent most of the thirteen years he 's worked on me with his head in his hands crying with laughter or frustration . |
| 10 | His blue eyes rested on me with , apparently , genuine concern . |
| 11 | But even Ataturk is described as resembling ‘ an Aryan Dracula … in a black dinner-jacket , peering down on me with heavy eyebrows , a widow 's peak of blond hair indicating a mixed Macedonian birth ’ . |
| 12 | I have lived there for fifteen years , but the moment I leave I feel it closing the doors on me with indifference . |
| 13 | She sat quite still and her eyes were fixed on me with a curious , dark look of sympathy mixed with something else . |
| 14 | Gav — who probably epitomised thick-skulledness , though admittedly would not be amongst one 's first fifteen when it came to offering proof of heavy traffic within the central nervous system — opened one bleary eye and focused on me with the same accuracy one has grown to expect from security forces aiming baton rounds at protesters ' legs . |
| 15 | His head turned on me with a snake-like swiftness , accusingly , but he said nothing . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Erm yes erm well at the ti at first I could only move my head , but when I went on that holiday , St Giles had been working on me with nerve machines and muscle machines |
| 18 | Skipper stopped dead and looked down on me with a definite ‘ What on earth are you doing there ? ’ look on his face . |
| 19 | He was honest enough to admit that he had to rely on me for the practical side of the business , and gave me a good rise in pay . |
| 20 | Have you come to revenge yourself on me for failing you ? ’ |
| 21 | Shame on me for this is the first issue of SR I 've ever read ( Nov ) , but I hope it will not be the last , for may I say , I think I may have at last found a space where I can be heard — most women 's magazines shun the type of letter I submit — not cosy enough for their letters pages , I suspect . |
| 22 | Maybe I 'd set him at ease by saying ‘ g'day ’ , but he looked like he 'd known me all his eight years , and leant quite steadily on me for the drive to Robert 's parents ' cottage , where we arranged photos . |
| 23 | when I can feel that the sole responsibility rests on me for everything , whether it be a small crisis like this [ the Munshi rising ] , with the necessary action taken to preserve life , and to re-establish prestige or whether it be , as my day 's task has been , to confirm the hanging of criminals or the penal servitude , or the petty punishments of others , watching jealously that the executive officer does not inflict punishments which are unfair , or that the legal adviser does not hamper true justice by technical objections . |
| 24 | She came to rely on me for help and support and I am very , very upset . |
| 25 | ‘ God has not bestowed talent on me for me to dance attendance on a woman , and thereby waste my youth … . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ I was so happy when he kinda stopped chewing on me for a second . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ It means , mother , that Craig is trying to put the blame on me for the thieving he 's done . ’ |
| 28 | The key to such a system is that everyone asks : Who in this organization depends on me for what information ? |
| 29 | He may have been dependent on me for the time being for his physical well-being , but at the deepest level he was dependent on Montaine . |
| 30 | I rely on everybody else , but she has to rely on me for her food and comfort . |