Example sentences of "on [pron] [prep] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Oh , you were always a fool , Neil , always — a fool to think that I would be content to live on nothing with a younger son and a fool to reject me now that I can give you the life which you ought to be living . ’ |
| 2 | His head turned on me with a snake-like swiftness , accusingly , but he said nothing . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I 'll tell you what happened today — a man I barely know forced himself on me in a snowy field , that 's what happened today . ’ |
| 5 | Some time later I was informed that I had been awarded the Verdienstkreuz or West German Order of Merit , First Class , which their ambassador pinned on me in a charming family ceremony at the Embassy in Grosvenor Square . |
| 6 | Oppression lay on me like a dead beast , not gaunt and stiff-legged like the animals which lay where they had dropped along the desert road , but soft and smothering like something from which the breath had only just gone . |
| 7 | Eileen O'Brien , IDC 's director of terminal services , says the surge in PC X server sales was n't forecast to happen until 1994 , attributing the rise to people who use X technology buying PCs and running X server software on them as a cheap alternative to X terminals and the improving quality of the software . |
| 8 | Also , in Germany firms such as Siemens originally joined employers ' associations yet never fully relied on them as a collective means of defending managerial prerogatives and curtailing union activities in the workplace . |
| 9 | Many advice workers are unaware that they have had a democratic part in the policy decisions that have adopted these training requirements and some even see these demands on them as a personal affront . |
| 10 | Rome looking on them as a devoted couple . |
| 11 | I had to work on them for a long time . |
| 12 | After the Turkish conquest of most of Hungary in the 1520s and 1530s the Hungarian nobles who had then fled westwards often still maintained claims to their former lands and even asserted their right to live tax-free on them for a limited period and to levy feudal dues in them . |
| 13 | Perhaps someone could lure some , sportsmen , in tweeds into its tenebrous depths , where we could leap down on them from a great height to tweak their noses and fill their plus fours with cornflakes . |
| 14 | While in Ceylon we visited Allied Headquarters in Kandy , where I was taken one afternoon by Colonel Christian into the ‘ War Room ’ to hear the reports received during the last twenty-four hours , and a commentary on them by a senior staff officer . |
| 15 | Judge William Crowford told Riley : ‘ It 's a matter of great regret that I must pass a prison sentence on someone with a good record like yourself . ’ |
| 16 | curled on himself like a wild creature , |
| 17 | An isolationist king means that the land of Ulthuan can turn in on itself for a thousand years or more . |
| 18 | Then she remembered his horror when he 'd said , ‘ Do n't tell me you 're a virgin ! ’ and her heart closed in on itself like a wounded animal . |
| 19 | ( He resumes pacing , then , spinning on his heels to avoid the wall , he veers round , stares you straight in the face , hands flared , fingers spread frozen in time and space , chin tucked in on itself like a gossiping neighbour , takes another deep breath through the nose , opens his mouth , swivels his eyes to left and right and walks clean out of the room . |
| 20 | The number of tau neutrinos created in the big bang can be worked out ; if they did not decay into other particles , and weighed 17 keV , then the universe would be more than 200 times heavier than it appears — so heavy that it would have collapsed in on itself in a big crunch eons ago . |
| 21 | From that moment onwards the " I " or Self focussed attention on itself by a powerful fascination . |
| 22 | ‘ Though we 'll need to keep an eye on you for a good while afterwards and replenish your fluids thoroughly . |
| 23 | ‘ Well , he can atone for his sins by waiting on you for a few days , ’ Jack said laughingly . |
| 24 | The second reason why God does not give up on you as a hopeless case is because he can see the future . |
| 25 | Mildly , he said , ‘ If you insist on facing things , why not think about how the way you 've behaved hardly leads me to think on you as a sensitive soul . |
| 26 | What Dilys Powell missed when she described The Wicked Lady as a concatenation of ‘ the hoary , the tedious , the disagreeable , ’ as did other critics who saw Gainsborough 's films as a reassertion of an old escapist tendency in British cinema , was how much of an advance such films offered on everything of a similar sort that had gone before , and how they touched the sentiments of audiences who could no longer respond to stories of gallant endeavour quite as they could when it seemed that defeat was an imminent possibility . |
| 27 | The years covered by this present chapter were broadly sad ones , so it is , for this author , a pleasure to be able to end on something of a light-hearted note . |
| 28 | The trick appears to have been performed once more by George Grayson , this space 's resident dog expert , who is on something of a canine roll at present . |
| 29 | More Mozart appears on something of a rag-bag disc ( ) , whose only common thread is the conductor Geoffrey Simon . |
| 30 | We could put you on something on a regular basis to help to damp them down . |