Example sentences of "[adv prt] on [pers pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But even Ataturk is described as resembling ‘ an Aryan Dracula … in a black dinner-jacket , peering down on me with heavy eyebrows , a widow 's peak of blond hair indicating a mixed Macedonian birth ’ . |
| 2 | looks down on me from blackest space : |
| 3 | She treated him as a malnourished curiosity , swooping down on him with tender cluckings , and seductive titbits — a crab claw , a lychee , a chocolate truffle — asking him to describe God , or Heaven , or sin , treating him as a confessional , trying to dress him up as a cardinal , showing him off to her friends . |
| 4 | But Rohmer had to know the answer to the questions that had fascinated and intrigued him for so long ; the questions that bore down on him with ever-increasing force during the drug-induced hallucinatory periods that were now so frequent in his life . |
| 5 | He was imagining himself sitting in a tiny Kayak in the middle of the Severn looking up at a wall of water , anything from six to nine feet high depending on conditions , bearing down on him at twelve miles an hour and making more noise than a fast approaching train . |
| 6 | But motorists on the M4 the other day who glanced in their mirrors would have seen him bearing down on them at great speed in his newly acquired 1968 Bentley T-series . |
| 7 | But motorists on the M4 the other day who glanced in their mirrors would have seen him bearing down on them at great speed in his newly acquired 1968 Bentley T-series . |
| 8 | They travelled all that day without a break , and for most of the time the sun beat down on them with fiery intensity . |
| 9 | He pulled the net aside and looked down on her with greedy eyes . |
| 10 | ‘ The full weight of the Children 's Department came down on us for that scene and , in retrospect , I realised I had made a mistake letting that go through . |
| 11 | Trapped against the hard edge of the wooden shelving by the taut pressure of his muscled thighs , the folly of her panicked action was borne in on her with devastating precision . |
| 12 | The clinging nature of her garments was borne in on her with horrifying clarity as her startled gaze caught the back end of his grin . |
| 13 | No , this was a shark , a deadly , multi-toothed shark , and he was homing in on her with lethal precision . |
| 14 | They were accustomed to drop in on him between ten and eleven in the evening , when he could be an agreeable companion ; and he , who had spent so little of his life with women , surprised his colleagues by making friends with the celebrated actress Dorothy Tutin . |
| 15 | For , though Alexander was there , he was clearly not expecting her to walk in on him at that precise moment . |
| 16 | She seemed the same as ever as she closed in on him with that unfortunate overbearing manner , except that today there was an almost wild look about her as she burst out , ‘ I felt I had to come , Freddie . |
| 17 | Six of them , ringing him round , closing in on him from all sides . |
| 18 | It might be too much of a shock if we burst in on them without any warning . ’ |
| 19 | They stopped shouting at each other , expecting the Headmaster to burst in on them at any moment . |
| 20 | It pressed in on them from all sides , menacing , frightening . |
| 21 | I did only one series of interviews with him and I do n't think it rubbed off on me to that extent . |
| 22 | ‘ You did not creep up on me at all . |
| 23 | ‘ Oh , ’ she cried , ‘ what the hell d' you think you 're doing , creeping up on me like that ? |
| 24 | " Adam , Do n't creep up on me like that , damn you . " |
| 25 | ‘ How dare you creep up on me like that ! ’ |
| 26 | who 's probably the orthodox first at position a yard or two behind Jack Russell and Gooch is probably a yard in front of Jack Russell at second slip and Lewis a foot or two up on him at third . |
| 27 | In spite of frequent attention , the old Paxman main engines on Venturous were breaking down more and more often , until the port engine finally gave up on us during Scottish patrols the following year . |
| 28 | My mind turned back to the man Mrs Bradshaw had accosted in the garden , but I knew of no one who bore me that kind of grudge or , if he did , would take it out on me in such a petty and spiteful way . |
| 29 | Come on , you guys , do n't run out on me like this . |
| 30 | I could n't just walk out on them after three years with the organization . |