Example sentences of "on [pers pn] [prep] the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | This is another of Nic Picot 's tricks which he tried on me in the pub outside the Magic Circle . |
| 3 | There , next to Miss Temple , stood the same black column which had frowned on me in the breakfast-room at Gateshead . |
| 4 | She had the edge on me from the point of view of rank , but I felt secure in the knowledge that ‘ J ’ ( my Corporal ) did n't want to take her out anyway . |
| 5 | ‘ Gloves , cane and collar astonish these artists in shirt-sleeves — they have always looked on them as the insignia of feeble-mindedness … still , it 's great to be in the thick of the dog-fights of great art . ’ |
| 6 | One might say that the ‘ candid camera ’ technique used for some television programmes , where people have tricks played on them for the benefit of the viewers , is rather in this mode of observation , though it is to be hoped that social researchers would not encourage people to make fools of themselves in the way television producers do . |
| 7 | The more frequently graded tests are used , the better will be the understanding of those who are to rely on them for the selection of candidates . |
| 8 | Regional planning authorities are also informed of proposals for revocation , modification and discontinuance of Use Orders , and can make representations or objections on them to the secretary of state . |
| 9 | The following proposed amendments to the Constitution are for your careful consideration so that you can comment and vote on them at the A.G.M. on Friday , 19th March 1982 . |
| 10 | ’ 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 . |
| 11 | By the early 1830s the very ‘ glut ’ of petitions so held up the normal business of the day that , although an exceptional petition like that of the ladies could make an impression , the House of Commons acted to refer petitions to a committee and deny immediate speech on them on the floor of the House . |
| 12 | Unable to get to our treasure , they were decimated by the rain of bolts our forebears showered down on them from the tower of this church . |
| 13 | If Stagecoach has sold it , why should the contemptible consumers of bus services not just be left to suffer from market forces imposed on them by the Government through privatisation ? |
| 14 | Mr John Buxton , director of property services , said yesterday the new panel had been forced on them by the rarity of the brick used in the building . |
| 15 | The rules were introduced in a memorandum from the Institute explaining to banks the duties imposed on them by the law on drug trafficking passed by parliament in July 1989 . |
| 16 | The earliest examples are pictures of 1907 or 1908 , such as the wonderful ‘ Bathers with a turtle ’ , where he lays three isolated figures and this absurd tortoise in the picture and persuades them to cohere simply by the pressure exerted on them by the colour of the ground . |
| 17 | I mean , we do n't stand still at this because what will seem a very good service this year will look like a lousy service in five years ' time so let's not pretend the fact that we have n't achieved everything we 've achieved this year in some previous years means that we have n't made any improvements because I think one of the key areas where in fact er improvements have been made in previous years , and to a certain extent , one could say reading this I was worried by an apparent admission of very much reference or very much expenditure on them in the provision of day centres , because I think that a key element in care in the community and the fact that today so successfully this year has been the fact that a major number of th and I do n't think there 's any disagreement over this , a number of day centres , very efficient and very effective day centres , were developed , funded , provided mainly in the conurbation areas and I think Mr is right to highlight the fact that , as so often happens in these instances , it 's people who live in conurbations who get the best deal because it 's , it 's more economical , it 's easier to provide a centre for a large number of people than it is for a small number of people . |
| 18 | Finally , courts have shown considerable reluctance to allow judicial review of decisions of social workers designed to protect children from abuse , for fear of putting undue pressure on them in the performance of difficult tasks . |
| 19 | Given too free a hand during years when he , like David II earlier , had fallen into English captivity , they resented the disciplines which their returning king was determined to impose on them in the cause of national unification . |
| 20 | ‘ Great strapping brutes they were , with backs on them like the deck of a ship , ’ William 's grandad said , who 'd been thrown off both and knew . |
| 21 | Marsco 's cold gaze was fixed on Jinneth as she leaned forward to speak to him , her hand on his amid the clutter of the table . |
| 22 | I 'm going to keep a short rope on you for the rest of our lives . ’ |
| 23 | They did not pick on you for the hell of it . |
| 24 | Trellis is a useful compromise and you can always pretend it was forced on you by the speed of growth of your climbing rose . |
| 25 | The fact that Anne now relied on her to the extent of being somewhat lost without her , gave Joan a curious but none the less pleasurable sense of power . |
| 26 | ‘ Is this how princes use their power and privilege ? ’ she raged , and his hands loosened their grip on her at the fury in her face . |
| 27 | In other words , according to this view , Germany along with all the other nations stumbled into war in nineteen fourteen , was then declared , simply because she was the defeated party , declared to be the guilty party , erm had punitive terms imposed on her at the Treaty of Versailles , and as a result of this moved towards extremism in internal politics , with the erm consequence that the Democratic Republic of Weimar collapsed , erm Hitler came to power , and Hitler was some kind of evil person , a Satanic messenger from Hell , who first of all visited his atrocities on , on the Germans before doing the same to Europe as a whole . |
| 28 | That 's right on her on the copy of that . |
| 29 | ’ Monika claims 38-year-old Father Christopher O'Neill ran out on her before the birth of their daughter Jennifer . |
| 30 | She felt reassured from the article that other people suffered the same symptoms as she did , and could already identify her own propensity to jump to the conclusion that people looked down on her in the absence of any hard evidence . |