Example sentences of "on [pers pn] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | I fancy moreover that this feeling of unreality , which obtruded itself on me at intervals , exists permanently among the majority of the new Imperial household , and is not altogether absent from the minds of the Emperor and the Empress themselves though they play their roles with consummate skill and ease , particularly the Empress . |
| 2 | Two days on the trot carrying a big bag over thirty-six holes took its toll on me at only eighteen . |
| 3 | I 've got half a dozen billeted on me at the moment . |
| 4 | He 'll turn on me at any minute — tell me I do n't understand — it 's all my fault . |
| 5 | This one leapt on me at the exact moment that Junior unloosened his arms and thrust himself into his father 's crying : ‘ Daddy , Daddy , I like this nice man . |
| 6 | I shall tell my husband of your attack on me at Cherry Tree Farm , and how you have pestered me all the years of my marriage . ’ |
| 7 | Quinn said : ‘ Bobby Gould was prepared to take a gamble on me at Coventry , so I will be trying to pay him back for that by scoring even more goals . |
| 8 | He called on me at the apartment a few hours before I left for the airport . |
| 9 | ‘ You did not creep up on me at all . |
| 10 | There 's nothing new that women have n't tried on me at one time or another . |
| 11 | ‘ I was so afraid you would be hurt , then I found myself wondering if I could trust David or whether he would walk out on me at the first sign of trouble . ’ |
| 12 | Keep one eye on them at all times to avoid problems . |
| 13 | ’ One has to balance these things carefully : they 're capable of erupting if churches are inflicted on them at the rate of more than , say , one every other day . |
| 14 | But motorists on the M4 the other day who glanced in their mirrors would have seen him bearing down on them at great speed in his newly acquired 1968 Bentley T-series . |
| 15 | But motorists on the M4 the other day who glanced in their mirrors would have seen him bearing down on them at great speed in his newly acquired 1968 Bentley T-series . |
| 16 | They stopped shouting at each other , expecting the Headmaster to burst in on them at any moment . |
| 17 | To take a wild hypothetical instance , the police could torture a suspect into revealing the location of stolen goods and then use the fact that his fingerprints are on them at his trial . |
| 18 | Dad says we 've got to start on them at once . ’ |
| 19 | Fourteen people sat down to dinner at the house , a local man , Thomas Jones , being employed to wait on them at table . |
| 20 | Ministers have taken the decision despite warnings from some civil servants that their failure to fund research into nuclear safety could backfire on them at the Sizewell public inquiry now under way in Suffolk . |
| 21 | Standard disc drives can not duplicate the ‘ I can not read that ’ instruction because the unreadable sectors have data written on them at twice the normal speed . |
| 22 | The form allows applicants to state their choice between going to the local office of the department for interview , or having one of their officers call on them at home . |
| 23 | This is a problem which seems to affect a considerable number of men in their forties and fifties , at a time when there may be a good deal of pressure on them at work and at home . |
| 24 | Skipper Botha said : warned England last night that their hospitality may rebound on them at Twickenham today . |
| 25 | John 's wife Sheila told of her shock when she woke to find a gun trained on them at their home in Bromley , Kent . |
| 26 | Spring this on them at the worst possible time ; make sure they 're all in the corridor if possible , so you have the maximum number of potential victims . |
| 27 | The heads of governments asked the commission to come back with precise proposals for how this should be done , so that they could act on them at June 's summit in Copenhagen . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | She did n't like me wearing T-shirts with ‘ Death From Above ’ emblazoned on them at her friends ' parties in Wimbledon . |
| 30 | ‘ I 'll tell you quite frankly , I would n't know where to put my hands on them at the moment . |