Example sentences of "[vb past] on [pers pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Say it was appalling that they spied on us like that ? ’ |
| 2 | Yesterday they played on it with delirious joy . |
| 3 | Lucifer turned on them with such ferocity that some actually fell backwards off their benches . |
| 4 | Alain came in without even knocking and she turned on him with furious hurt . |
| 5 | He turned on me with one of his nastiest looks . |
| 6 | Len , as he was known to his legion of friends , was elected to Selkirk Town Council in 1956 and served on it for 18 years , as well as on the then county council for 14 years . |
| 7 | The possibilities of amplified vibration first dawned on me in 1972 when James Yates , who had become totally deafened , was referred to Link . |
| 8 | The walls and ceilings were all painted the same insipid magnolia and there was rush matting on the floor which trapped bits of food and stuff and hurt if you walked on it with bare feet . |
| 9 | This Romanesque triple portico is sculptured by Master Mateo ( who is buried in the church ) and who worked on it from 1168–88 . |
| 10 | We dined on spicy fish which repeated on me for most of the evening in the Jac , meeting pals , until I drowned it in an ocean of beer . |
| 11 | Also sitting at Robin 's table was the brilliant surgeon Mr Alan Crockard who operated on him in 1988 to save his life . |
| 12 | Two liquid brown eyes gazed on them with mild curiosity , rising and falling with the pull of the waves . |
| 13 | She said nothing and a moment or two of silence fell on them like one of the Moor 's deadly mists . |
| 14 | The quietly spoken words fell on her like stinging blows . |
| 15 | For this reason , the seventeenth century looked on it with varying degrees of embarrassed caution and suspicion . |
| 16 | She moved the chair and leaned on it with one hand . |
| 17 | His life aboard was entirely idle ; the others waited on him like two wives , catering to his needs and bolstering his ego . |
| 18 | Rather it is a complementary approach to the human past ; one which , by looking at the ways in which people used the land and the effect they had on it throughout human history , can enhance our grasp of how the environment might change in the future . |
| 19 | Beside this was a more interesting find , a narrow leather case with the initials PSB stamped on it in faded gold . |
| 20 | ‘ I 've been dealing with your affairs for some considerable time , Jenna , ’ he pointed out , as if it had been a dreadful chore wished on him by some unseen and malevolent spirit . |
| 21 | It fell on the floor and rolled towards Uncle Mick 's feet — and he promptly stood on it with all his forty-year police authority and his size ten boots . |
| 22 | Around 1920 when Eliot , with anthropological ideas in the forefront of his mind , had attacked Gilbert Murray 's translations of Euripides , Pound tried to persuade him to translate Aeschylus ' Agamemnon , but Eliot ‘ sat on it for eight months or some longer period ’ . |
| 23 | One problem is whether companies will be able to bear the debt burdens heaped on them by leveraged buy-outs , particularly in the United States . |