Example sentences of "[verb] on [pers pn] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | In an extreme case , someone may act on them for the reason that , or on the principle that , ‘ a little bit of what you fancy does you good ’ . |
| 2 | Gandhi indeed could count on the British conscience for his personal safety , but he could never count on it for political concessions — and it is clear that at some level he understood this . |
| 3 | Both the New Criticism and Scrutiny were products of the modernist literary revolution , and drew on it for their methods and their assumptions . |
| 4 | That has brought a great deal of success , because the French Government are now taking the tough measures that we have been pressing on them for 10 years . |
| 5 | Typical of the kind of pain Dustin would put himself through , in order to get ‘ inside ’ a character , was the way in which he developed Ratso 's limp by placing stones in one shoe and then walking on them for a day . |
| 6 | I had to work on them for a long time . |
| 7 | The tabloids turned on them for selling the idea of drugs to schoolchildren and having too much sex . |
| 8 | I shall refer briefly to one of the matters touched on by the hon. Gentleman , although I shall not speak on it for as long as I had intended , because the hon. Gentleman made wide-ranging reference to it himself , I congratulate him on that . |
| 9 | George made a long thinking , grumbling noise , then said , mostly to himself : ‘ The paperwork must have been good … if they were living on it for eighteen months … they were n't escaped prisoners of war trying to reach Switzerland on a hand-copied Fremdenpass … |
| 10 | ‘ He 'll stop people from picking on him for being different . ’ |
| 11 | The key to such a system is that everyone asks : Who in this organization depends on me for what information ? |
| 12 | Magazines are very seldom reviewed but we depend on them for up to date information . |
| 13 | We are now facing the most serious challenge in our history and depend on you for support . |
| 14 | Tourism does bring economic benefits to rural areas , but it is usually considered to be a mixed blessing , even by those who depend on it for their living . |
| 15 | He says in Mexico for instance there are communities who depend on it for their livelihood and who benefit from the sale of the wood . |
| 16 | The motor industry is a key measure of our economic performance , and hundreds of thousands depend on it for their livliehoods . |
| 17 | Last November he appealed against the sentence , imposed on him for breaking a ban on keeping livestock . |
| 18 | Aquino 's economic cutbacks , imposed on her for all the right reasons , have caused considerable suffering . |
| 19 | He fears the demands that will be made on him for reparation and ‘ the punishment and revenge that may fall on him . |
| 20 | He stood in the hallway puffing on it for a few seconds to make sure it was fully alight . |
| 21 | It might have been the man that he 'd seen before or it might not ; his face was no more than a characterless oval with a few spare lines drawn on it for features . |
| 22 | The result was that yesterday they turned on us for information as to the number of men to be dropped , the weight of stores and the mileage and so on , all of which was essential for them to know if they were to fit out the aircraft properly . |
| 23 | Traditionally a signet ring , with a family crest engraved on it for marking wax seals , was the only jewellery worn by a man . |
| 24 | Its bluish-black eyes seemed to focus on her for the first time . |
| 25 | ‘ Well , he can atone for his sins by waiting on you for a few days , ’ Jack said laughingly . |
| 26 | So , she 's not one to play on it for not going to school though , so |
| 27 | Len , as he was known to his legion of friends , was elected to Selkirk Town Council in 1956 and served on it for 18 years , as well as on the then county council for 14 years . |
| 28 | Mrs Burke leaves a remarkable house which deserves to be looked after with the same care that she has lavished on it for almost 20 years . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | If she relied on him for anything , it never happened . |