Example sentences of "[vb past] on [pers pn] at " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 A SCHOOLBOY was killed when a wall collapsed on him at the weekend .
3 A man died when a wall collapsed on him at a farm in Gloucestershire .
4 He called on me at the apartment a few hours before I left for the airport .
5 One man has died and another was seriously injured when a fifteen tonne machine fell on them at a factory in Gloucestershire .
6 Coroner Ronald O'Doherty said the boy had died five hours after the insecure steel goal-posts fell on him at the Derry City Council ground .
7 Poindexter discoursed on it at the hearings , tamping his pipe , with the aid of the sort of brightly-coloured maps usually found in school atlases .
8 And this spirit continues with Jesus thereafter , it descended on him at baptism , it drove him out into the wilderness to be tempted and so on .
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