Example sentences of "[verb] on [pers pn] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Erin pronounced on me the Draoicht Tinneas Siorai . |
| 2 | Jones had then worked closely with the docks employer , Lord Aldington , in getting a new wages agreement for the docks including a settlement for the problem of casual labour which drew on him the fire of many militant shop stewards amongst the stevedores . |
| 3 | The principal effect of referring to rules of private international law to extend the scope of a Convention would seem to be to displace a possible presumption that the parties , in choosing the law of a Contracting State , intended only its domestic law to apply ( that is , without the Convention ) and to impose on them the onus of displacing the Convention . |
| 4 | Always hovering like a vulture around the vulnerable , pressing on them the drinks and fattening foods to make all his dreams come true . |
| 5 | It was only when the Finance Minister , Navarro Rubio , confronted Franco personally , impressed on him the absolute and urgent necessity of devaluing the peseta , and asked him how he would feel if ration cards had to be reintroduced , that Franco reluctantly gave in . |
| 6 | Will he ask his right hon. Friends the Home Secretary and the Secretary of State for the Environment to bring that home to the support services and the district decision-takers in South Yorkshire and to urge on them the prior claim of South Yorkshire police at this time ? |
| 7 | When I walk on it the whole thing starts to move and I am soon covered in the grey dust I am stirring up ; it fills my nostrils and triggers a memory that links the smell with rock climbing . |
| 8 | The rub is the general conviction , based on the man 's record , that the same pragmatism , unencumbered by ideology or ethics , that leads him to sign an agreement one day will lead him to renege or cheat on it the next . |
| 9 | It was to drive another nail into the coffin , into the public service 's coffin , to go alongside compulsory competitive tendering , erosion of working conditions and compulsory redundancies just to satisfy their own political dogma not caring about the citizens of this country , whose quality of life depends on them the services provided by the public sector . |
| 10 | Adrift and in debt , Rolfe was taken in by the Duchess of Sforza-Cesarini , who conferred on him the title of Baron Corvo before he returned to England later in the year . |
| 11 | I do not arrogate to myself a knowledge superior to that of the professionals , but I have had imposed on me the obligation to exercise a quasi-judicial function in assessing applications . |
| 12 | So I make no apologies for beginning this book in the way that a conjurer might , by giving you an apparently free choice from the pack while in fact forcing on you the particular card that I want you to take . |
| 13 | Certainly I always tried to remember the shocking effect which the sight of so many old prisoners , some of them bearded , all of them strangely dressed , had had on me the first time I arrived in a main camp . |
| 14 | He could also make an error of judgement in his choice of sailors , at least one of whom turned on him the moment they were inside the door and threatened to beat him up if he did not hand over money . |
| 15 | General Booth of the Salvation Army , had recognition by the City of London conferring on him the Freedom of the City , in 1905 , which was also the year when Dr. T.J. Barnard ( the founder of the Children 's Homes that bear his name ) , died on 19th , September . |
| 16 | Moreover there were functions which only the lord himself could carry out , particularly in matters of justice , for as a baron of Scotland , Ramsay had the power of pit and gallows , conferring on him the right and duty to adjudicate in most issues not reserved to the crown , a grave responsibility for a man who took his obligations seriously , and one in which his brother could not replace him . |
| 17 | However , people 's capacity for perceiving themselves in this way is not innate ; it is acquired within a framework of established social practices which impose on them the role ( forme ) of a subject . |
| 18 | Bill thought I 'd died on him the other night cos I was , you know , me breathing and everything , and then all of a sudden I must 've relaxed for a bit and not needed to breathe and he give me a shock he says God I thought you were dead . |
| 19 | They pressed on him the anomalies between loyalist and republican sentences . |
| 20 | ‘ If we do n't step on it the inn will have closed for the afternoon , and we wo n't get a glass of the urine of Culex pipiens . |
| 21 | You must not touch this curtain with your hand , but must lay on it the milk-white feather which the hen will give you , and the curtain will be opened silently , by unseen hands , and the doors beyond it will lie open , and you may come into the hall where you shall find what you shall find . ’ |
| 22 | You must also note on it the NI contributions and tax details each time an employee gets paid . |
| 23 | Gallaudet College conferred on him the Honorary Degree of B.D. in recognition of his work for the deaf , and he was appointed an Officer of the French Academy . |
| 24 | In the 1880s there had begun to run on them the transcontinental luxury expresses which were to dominate long-distance land travel until the second world war . |
| 25 | the more I worked on it the more it began to evolve into another kind of idea and the more removed it became from my initial study which had so much freedom and energy , so I stopped . |
| 26 | Training is now provided for the BVetMed degree , entitling graduates to be registered as members of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons , which confers on them the title of veterinary surgeon and the sole right to practise as such . |
| 27 | The fact that it is transcendent confers on it the boon that its enduring is not dependent on appearances but on mental factors . |
| 28 | When the Home Secretary meets the car manufacturers in March , will he impress on them the seriousness of the situation and consider compelling them to fit such devices as standard , bearing in mind that , last weekend alone , £100,000 worth of damage was caused by car theft in my constituency ? |
| 29 | He urged on me the need to embark on a full-sized book , and to send him a synopsis as soon as possible . |
| 30 | To join them send an SAE — indicating on it the number of stickers required — to Lock It ! |