Example sentences of "[verb] on [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | As Silvia continued to inflict on her that look of pained horror , Ronni folded her arms and assumed a school-teacherish expression . |
| 32 | The coffin had to have an extra lining and the lid was screwed down earlier than it might have been , so that nobody could look on them dead , except the undertaker who came to the house and wore a mask and Liam who insisted on being with them all the time . |
| 33 | Get on you dirty thing . |
| 34 | ‘ I really came to see Sophie , but I could n't resist calling on you first . ’ |
| 35 | ‘ Shine On You Crazy Diamond ’ from ‘ Wish You Were Here ’ is a particularly beautiful final tribute to Barrett from the band he once used to lead , even though it confuses you into thinking he has passed on . |
| 36 | At the orphanage I was complimented on me English composition , but I 've always been a bit shy about speakin' up for meself . ’ |
| 37 | A false sense of injustice has been fuelled in Wright by the dirty tricks played on him this season by opponents and fans . |
| 38 | He knew exactly what he wanted and so I relied on him one hundred per cent . |
| 39 | Getting on me nervous |
| 40 | Gradually it began to dawn on me that while in the celluloid world all things were possible , in the other world it was quite a different story . |
| 41 | It dawned on me last season , as we took a first-minute lead over Carlton Town West Saxons , that perhaps it was Fate that plucked pink , 544 , from the hat . |
| 42 | It then dawned on him disagreeable that not only was he in for a Dickensian banquet ( although he had taken care of that problem , he remembered cheeringly ) but for Dickensian readings . |
| 43 | The chances of playing for England are remote … yet for Eire in goal is good , so he 'll get some international/world experience ( maybe in the World Cup … give us another reason to cheer on you Irish ; - ) |
| 44 | They did not often visit us , for Dad called on them several times every week , being a good and generous brother . |
| 45 | After her small bedroom at home , where beloved old ornaments belonging once to her mother jostled for space with a basket of ironing she had n't yet had time for , and nursing textbooks that would n't fit on her one small bookshelf , or her room at the nurses ' home , where exotic travel posters — gleaned from a travel agent next to her father 's hardware shop — could n't disguise the institutional plainness of the furnishings , this room seemed palatial . |
| 46 | Neither man liked the other , but they had strewn eggs in their own pathways towards each other and they walked on them all afternoon . |
| 47 | Does your spider feed on the prey at once or does it wrap it in sticky threads and feed on it later ? |
| 48 | By one of the Tudors , he thought , a finger could be laid on him any day of the year , I 'll swear . |
| 49 | ‘ It needs money spending on it all the time to keep it going and in a fair state of maintenance . |
| 50 | On the M40 in Buckinghamshire , London-bound traffic is very heavy and slow approaching the M25 interchange , due to the weight of traffic travelling on it this evening . |
| 51 | I knew that some of his friends were into drugs , but I did n't know Ryan was until he collapsed on me one day . |
| 52 | The House of Lords held that the plaintiff 's relationship with the committee conferred on him private law rights to remuneration in accordance with his statutory terms of service : that a litigant possessed of a private law right could seek to enforce that right by ordinary action notwithstanding that the proceedings would involve a challenge to a public law decision ; and that accordingly the action brought by the plaintiff in the Queen 's Bench Division did not constitute an abuse of process . |
| 53 | Prof. Graham Street of Kirkdale had the title Richard Lines Professor of Biochemical Engineering conferred on him last week . |
| 54 | In committing the count 's rights to written record , Henry 's clerks had conferred on them new authority . |
| 55 | What sort of effect did it have on you that kind of directness ? |
| 56 | would be unwise for us in analysing our 1983 data to treat the unemployed in the same way as in 1972 without at least considering whether this might not seriously distort our results ; more specifically , it would seem important to examine what effect it would have on he 1983 mobility [ results ] if unemployment , or at all events long-term unemployment , were itself regarded as a mobility ‘ status ’ or outcome . |
| 57 | She 'd call on them one day , he was confident of that . |
| 58 | The limelight cast on NT-on-Alpha and the number of adjectives spent on it this week is expected to have a negative , if not fatal impact on the rickety ACE Initiative , whose founders , including Compaq and SCO , are perceived to be abandoning it for greener pastures , despite claims to the contrary . |
| 59 | I called on you earlier but there was no reply and I could see the place was in darkness . |
| 60 | What would happen if I loved him more than he loved me , and if he were to cheat on me one day ? |