Example sentences of "[vb pp] on me [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You attacked me and tried to force yourself upon me , you wanted to blackmail me , you followed me around and spied on me in Helmsley — and you say I 've nothing to fear ! ’ |
| 2 | It took time to translate the political terms and conditions being imposed on me by my colonialist sisters , heavily disguised as they were under a veneer of , ‘ Of course we know the issues are different for Irish women ’ . |
| 3 | ‘ Perhaps I do n't respond to challenges that are imposed on me by others ! ’ |
| 4 | I have already described the tremendous impression that Hydén 's experiments — in which he measured increases in RNA and protein synthesis in tiny cellular regions from the brains of rats trained to balance on wires to reach for food — made on me as a young post-doc . |
| 5 | The picture I am trying to convey , and it is one which is borne on me with passionate intensity almost every time I enter a primary school class , is of rigid and often unsuitable instruments ( the centralised curriculum plan , textbooks , methods of assessment ) imposed in situations where they do not apply or where they apply only to a small number of individuals within a group . |
| 6 | I was also on the receiving end of some pranks played on me by the cameramen . |
| 7 | ‘ He was dumped on me by your friend when he vanished , promising , of course , to be back in a day or two . ’ |
| 8 | laid on me by those men who specialise |
| 9 | There , next to Miss Temple , stood the same black column which had frowned on me in the breakfast-room at Gateshead . |
| 10 | His blue eyes rested on me with , apparently , genuine concern . |
| 11 | She sat quite still and her eyes were fixed on me with a curious , dark look of sympathy mixed with something else . |
| 12 | With eyes fixed on me as if I was hypnotisin' him , he takes the papermate out of the tray and moves away as if I might bite . |
| 13 | Jeff Ritcher , my choreographer , has spent most of the thirteen years he 's worked on me with his head in his hands crying with laughter or frustration . |
| 14 | There 's nothing new that women have n't tried on me at one time or another . |
| 15 | I 've got half a dozen billeted on me at the moment . |