Example sentences of "[noun] on [pers pn] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With almost all the farms having stock on them for 365 days , and with wives restricted in the heavy work they could do , most men had quite a bit to do when they returned from work . |
| 2 | Someone up there must have wagered a few bob on them for another Grand Slam . |
| 3 | You 're getting too much mouth on you for one as does n't earn her keep . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'll have the law on you for this , mate , I tell you , ’ he finished helplessly . |
| 5 | Cos there 's some , they used to be carrying timber down the dock all one length and what already slung , already stacked for 'em and the way it cost , the way it go put the wires on me for sure now and there ai n't much to let now . |
| 6 | Shame on me for this is the first issue of SR I 've ever read ( Nov ) , but I hope it will not be the last , for may I say , I think I may have at last found a space where I can be heard — most women 's magazines shun the type of letter I submit — not cosy enough for their letters pages , I suspect . |
| 7 | We 've had our eye on him for some time . |
| 8 | I have had my eye on you for some time . |
| 9 | ‘ The sergeant-major has had his eye on you for several weeks , ’ Trentham continued , ‘ and feels you 'd be a good candidate for promotion to lance-corporal . |
| 10 | But it was the Greek islands on which his attention was finally fastened , notably Hydra ( Ydra ) in the Saronic Gulf , which had had an artistic community on it for some years . |
| 11 | I do n't put a meaning on them for other people , they must form their own ideas ; I know what I meant when I made them , but it may not be the same thing for other people . |
| 12 | Why does n't it have a mark on it for absolute brass monkeys ? |
| 13 | If you want to share them , put a new condom on them for each user or wash them thoroughly in hot water ( as long as the toy is not electrical ! ) . |
| 14 | If he 'd had his hands on her for one minute , he could have given her something to remember him by ; if only he 'd spat a single obscenity into her ear before running off , it would have been something . |
| 15 | Black-leaved ilexes grew in the churchyard and a brassy laburnum had flowers on it for one week out of the year . |
| 16 | When Vinnie Jones was a player here they put one camera on him for 90 minutes , nothing else . |
| 17 | And I had the TV cameras on me for most of the time . |
| 18 | And they probably have cameras on it for all I know . |
| 19 | That way you will be paying interest on them for many years . |