Example sentences of "[vb past] on [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I believe , ’ said the commissioner who reported on it to the Health of Towns Commission in 1845 , |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The reflections flickered on her like a distant storm . |
| 4 | This is another of Nic Picot 's tricks which he tried on me in the pub outside the Magic Circle . |
| 5 | As I prowled about outside the garden wall , it came on me with a start that a young , man was regarding me over the barrel of a pistol . |
| 6 | If he came on them in the darkness and they were … but she would n't … it was perfectly natural … she was eighteen and he … |
| 7 | Yussuf turned on her in a fury . |
| 8 | His head turned on me with a snake-like swiftness , accusingly , but he said nothing . |
| 9 | He turned on me like a snake . |
| 10 | That Cheetah has the name ‘ Bert ’ engraved on it as a permanent memorial to Bert Mason who has worked unstintingly on bringing the Cheetahs back to life and had worked at 42 AS during the war years . |
| 11 | This is a featureless big plateau , and I arrived on it in a blizzard . |
| 12 | Disappointed at the constable 's absence , since he and Richard had prepared a verbal message for their mother , Edward remarked on it to the servant , a stranger , who brought their supper . |
| 13 | I misunderstood the cause of his mood and remarked on it in a letter . |
| 14 | My film adaptation of Anthony Delano 's richly comic book slip-Up ’ How Fleet Street caught Ronnie Biggs and Scotland Yard lost him ’ cost the not unastronomical sum of £600,000 to make , so should it turn out to be money down the drain the BBC will have to face some embarrassing questions about why it embarked on it in the first place if it thought the story might be defamatory . |
| 15 | It dawned on her for the first time that perhaps the other woman had married for money . |
| 16 | The significance dawned on him like a sword piercing his anger . |
| 17 | Thankfully he landed on it for a moment , moving his body back and forth to keep balance with the stress of the wind and peering about him . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | A man died when a wall collapsed on him at a farm in Gloucestershire . |
| 20 | A SCHOOLBOY was killed when a wall collapsed on him at the weekend . |
| 21 | Penry shot upright , yawning mightily as he rubbed eyes which focused on her with a noticeable lack of warmth . |
| 22 | Gav — who probably epitomised thick-skulledness , though admittedly would not be amongst one 's first fifteen when it came to offering proof of heavy traffic within the central nervous system — opened one bleary eye and focused on me with the same accuracy one has grown to expect from security forces aiming baton rounds at protesters ' legs . |
| 23 | He called on me at the apartment a few hours before I left for the airport . |
| 24 | Some time later I was informed that I had been awarded the Verdienstkreuz or West German Order of Merit , First Class , which their ambassador pinned on me in a charming family ceremony at the Embassy in Grosvenor Square . |
| 25 | He beamed on me like an indulgent father promising a marvellous present off the Christmas tree . |
| 26 | One man has died and another was seriously injured when a fifteen tonne machine fell on them at a factory in Gloucestershire . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | He repeated once more , for Theo 's benefit , his fateful words on that summer day : ‘ Kee , I love you as myself … ’ and her reply , ‘ No , never never ’ , which fell on him like a death sentence , ‘ and for the moment it absolutely crushed me to the ground ’ . |
| 29 | Acceptance fell on me like a sandbag . |
| 30 | His golden shadow fell on her from the lamp . |