Example sentences of "[vb past] on [pers pn] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The result was that yesterday they turned on us for information as to the number of men to be dropped , the weight of stores and the mileage and so on , all of which was essential for them to know if they were to fit out the aircraft properly . |
| 2 | And stuck on it for life I think . |
| 3 | It was thought that Green took his large prepared copper plates out into the landscape and worked on them in front of the actual view , but when one looks at a print of a recognisable location the image is not reversed as would have been the case if a direct drawing onto the plate had been made from nature . |
| 4 | But I found them thoroughly disgraceful , all the same : aesthetically , they worked on me like violence . |
| 5 | because I could n't speak English at all , I speak the , I could read a paper or a book , I du n no what is all about , but I used to get because you got on it for instant like mm |
| 6 | A shadow fell on them from time to time , from his own past as well as from hers , and it seemed then that they were threatened by some evil which could blot out their joy at a moment 's notice . |
| 7 | Next day Gabriel took the form of a monk and returned to the tree ; this time he found all three brothers lying under it in the shade and talking together , while the white blossom fell on them like snow . |
| 8 | She nearly fell on him in gratitude . |
| 9 | The former Sunderland defender injured a knee when West Brom striker Paul Williams fell on him in Pool 's 2–1 midweek win . |
| 10 | ‘ I 've had such a lovely time , ’ she said as Ethel fell on her in ecstasy , ‘ and Ethel 's lick is much more efficient than cleansing cream . ’ |
| 11 | In the vision the Lord looked on her with love . |
| 12 | It lay on him like water on a tin roof , rusting and rotting and corroding day after day . |
| 13 | He portrayed himself as Pierrot in one painting and wrote on it in Italian : ‘ Will he flower ? ’ |
| 14 | He rounded on us with spirit . |
| 15 | The defendants applied to strike out the statement of claim of the local authority on a preliminary issue on the grounds that the authority could not maintain an action in libel for words which reflected on it in relation to its governmental and administrative functions and that the statement of claim disclosed no cause of action . |
| 16 | The dark incision running obliquely from just above her vagina seemed a grosser violation of her corpse than anything inflicted on her in life . |
| 17 | Having dragged it over , she stood on it with care , and found it brought her eyes level with the frieze . |
| 18 | And this spirit continues with Jesus thereafter , it descended on him at baptism , it drove him out into the wilderness to be tempted and so on . |
| 19 | She depended on me for company ; I was a better companion than Colonel Goreng . |