Example sentences of "on [pers pn] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His head turned on me with a snake-like swiftness , accusingly , but he said nothing . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | He beamed on me like an indulgent father promising a marvellous present off the Christmas tree . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Rome looking on them as a devoted couple . |
| 14 | I had to work on them for a long time . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The English cathedrals also paid heavily for their association with Arminianism , as image-breakers inflicted considerable damage on them during the civil war . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Indeed there are strong resemblances between them , especially when one looks back on them from the present day and across all that has happened in theology since Ritschl . |
| 21 | It is possible that local managers were looking over their shoulders in planning ahead ; there was little pressure on them from the informed public to achieve rundown and disperse asylum services . |
| 22 | A square of amber light shone down on them from the open hatch . |
| 23 | The hope seems to be that nurses will be better prepared and better enthused to address the nursing needs of society without the shackles placed on them by an outmoded system of training . |
| 24 | Openness , urged on them by the hegemonic power , the United States , and the international organisations it dominated , and implicitly accepted by their own decisions to borrow heavily from foreign banks , multiplied their vulnerability . |
| 25 | ENGLAND and Holland have declined to enter the sixth European Women 's Indoor Cup early next month because it has been sprung on them by the European federation . |
| 26 | It repeals a duty conferred on them by the existing regime to monitor the wholesomeness of water in their areas . |
| 27 | The family who had owned and operated the mill continued to live in the imposing nearby mill house , but were unable to fund a restoration of the redundant mill , so that when a Repairs Notice was served on them by the local authority , they were obliged to sell the building . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | It has been suggested that the special fear of the cat jumping up on them in an unexpected way is the result of cat phobics ' general dislike of spontaneity and fear of the suddenly surprising . |
| 30 | ( Grimmitt 1973 ) , which advocated the dimensional alongside the existential approach to RE , advised intermingling the experiential , mythological and ritual dimensions and focusing on them in the primary school , adding the social and ethical together for lower Secondary , and finally bringing in the doctrinal with the upper forms of Secondary schools , as this dimension is the most difficult to cope with ( pp. 50 , 92f ) . |