Example sentences of "[verb] on [pers pn] [prep] [art] " 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 | ‘ You did n't jump on us like a friend , ’ Allen objected . |
| 3 | She was always surprised that things did n't fall on her from the sky more often , considering how much was up there these days . |
| 4 | It is at the level of explanation that the sexism of sociolinguistics is most blatantly on display , and I want to concentrate on it in the remainder of this section . |
| 5 | ‘ I believe , ’ said the commissioner who reported on it to the Health of Towns Commission in 1845 , |
| 6 | Given too free a hand during years when he , like David II earlier , had fallen into English captivity , they resented the disciplines which their returning king was determined to impose on them in the cause of national unification . |
| 7 | That conflict of views has its fierce advocates on both sides , and I am neither well informed nor dispassionate enough to comment on it From the presumed perspective of John Howard , the Ellis-Beto administrations overall emerge with credit , because they did insist on the publication of official rules , and that was a big breakthrough . |
| 8 | And Melanie had spied on them through a keyhole , and would never get closer to them than the keyhole in the door behind which they lived . |
| 9 | ‘ Gloves , cane and collar astonish these artists in shirt-sleeves — they have always looked on them as the insignia of feeble-mindedness … still , it 's great to be in the thick of the dog-fights of great art . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ She 's only seven years older than me and so I 've never looked on her as a mother figure . |
| 11 | And then he was passing beneath the huge , towering Gates , and he saw how they stretched above him into infinity , and he felt the timelessness of the great Prison descend on him like a huge , unseen weight . |
| 12 | Martha shook her head , feeling tiredness descend on her like the low cloud on the mountains , muffling all her emotions . |
| 13 | How long do they think the countryside will remain clean after they descend on it like a swarm of locusts with their cars , motorbikes and stereos ? |
| 14 | This weighed on him like an inactive dreadnought suit of combat armour , imprisoning him ; and he sought his enhanced clarity , as it were , to restore power to that suit . |
| 15 | The reflections flickered on her like a distant storm . |
| 16 | Off went the man into the woods only to return screaming for help with a huge grizzly gaining on him with every stride . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | This is another of Nic Picot 's tricks which he tried on me in the pub outside the Magic Circle . |
| 19 | The boy came over to Tallis and began to work on her with a knife . |
| 20 | These ledgers can be easily subdivided , enabling several clerks to work on them at the same time and it is also easier to withdraw old accounts and insert new ones in their place . |
| 21 | I had to work on them for a long time . |
| 22 | So if four of us were to work on it as a group , |
| 23 | Despite its boulevards in the north , the city was never as monotonous as the centre of Paris after Baron Haussmann had really got down to work on it in the 1860s . |
| 24 | However , the scattered radiation does carry to Earth signatures impressed on it by the atmosphere above the clouds , and by the 1960s it had been established that this part of the atmosphere alone contained about 1000 times as much CO 2 as the whole atmosphere of the Earth . |
| 25 | Burton arrived at the first rehearsal word-perfect and with the part already sewn on him like a skin . |
| 26 | Marcus had shattered that soft innocence when he had turned on her like a rabid dog , snapping , destroying , infecting … |
| 27 | I got , do n't know if they stop doing it altogether now , I really do n't know what erm , you see , I 've got an old one , but it says on it on the voucher it 's not trans none transferable . |
| 28 | ( a ) Meetings and their conduct Whatever may have been agreed as to the taking of decisions by unanimous or majority vote , as much a matter of good management as of good faith is the need to ensure that all relevant information is given to all the partners before a vote is taken : the requisite majority of partners should not purport to take decisions and act on them behind the backs of the minority unless such has been expressly authorised or the need for immediate action precludes the convening of a partners ' meeting ; and even then there should be no delay before all partners are acquainted with the circumstances and invited to ratify any decision taken in their name . |
| 29 | Does your Windows 3.1 sometimes freeze on you without an error message of any kind ? |
| 30 | He is not a natural extrovert ; leadership was thrust on him from a very early age . |