Example sentences of "on [pers pn] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " 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 | laid on me by those men who specialise |
| 3 | And they all jump on me from great heights till corns on my hand seem like the fringe benefits of delirious joy . |
| 4 | Not even when Pam Wright went 4-up on me after four holes in the final of the Scottish at Troon did I feel in any danger . " |
| 5 | I 've grown to know every inch of this foul little crypt , it 's beginning to grow on me like those coats of stones on the worms in rivers . |
| 6 | The patient may find these activities both boring and frustrating , especially if you are constantly trying to make him concentrate on them as educational tasks . |
| 7 | That way you will be paying interest on them for many years . |
| 8 | With almost all the farms having stock on them for 365 days , and with wives restricted in the heavy work they could do , most men had quite a bit to do when they returned from work . |
| 9 | That has brought a great deal of success , because the French Government are now taking the tough measures that we have been pressing on them for 10 years . |
| 10 | The Spanish police also maintained that they had kept the suspected terrorists ' movements under close surveillance and maintained a constant flow of information on them to British officials in Gibraltar . |
| 11 | Keep one eye on them at all times to avoid problems . |
| 12 | Hitch , Morton and McCann stood over the other three men while they transferred the precious cargo , guns trained on them at all times . |
| 13 | Rather than taking the piece as a whole she broke it down into smaller parts and then worked on them with separate hands and at varied rhythms . |
| 14 | When the eggs are cool , paint faces on them with felt-tip pens . |
| 15 | The Yugoslav media ( which claimed only four fatalities from these incidents ) said that police had acted in self defence after demonstrators fired on them with automatic weapons . |
| 16 | So while the island of Krakatoa ended up considerably smaller , Yerlaten Island and Lang Island ended up much bigger , due to the accumulation on them of enormous volumes of ash , which also piled up in the sea to form ‘ sand ’ banks . |
| 17 | Can anyone wonder that disbelief and despondency settled upon many schools in time to give way to anger and protest at the possibility of carrying out tasks that has been imposed on them under impossible conditions . |
| 18 | At the moment of its shattering hell would implode on them from all directions . |
| 19 | The Financial Services Act was putting pressure on them from all sides . |
| 20 | It pressed in on them from all sides , menacing , frightening . |
| 21 | It is likely that a good many protestant loyalists oscillate between the two and still have to come to their moment of decision , one that is likely to be forced on them by future events . |
| 22 | The timber producing companies , the announcement says , would prefer to be respected for their integrity in the exercise of self-control without conditions imposed on them by other countries . |
| 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 . |
| 24 | They hinted to all the women dependent on them in various ways that their shrill cries rendered them boring , humourless , sexually unappetising ; they talked of castration by these same women and wept and offered themselves as small soft snails out of their snailshells to be cosseted back by mummy into strength and pleasure-giving . |
| 25 | Er a , they are dependent on them in many ways , b , if they desert , they 're not acceptable to this society . |
| 26 | The law , the result of years of lobbying by the Roman Catholic church , bans abortions in private clinics and puts strict limits on them in public hospitals . |
| 27 | I could n't just walk out on them after three years with the organization . |
| 28 | The world is a huge and challenging laboratory for your work , and we lesser mortals rely on you for fascinating facts , not to mention fascinating television and radio programmes . |
| 29 | ‘ The sergeant-major has had his eye on you for several weeks , ’ Trentham continued , ‘ and feels you 'd be a good candidate for promotion to lance-corporal . |
| 30 | He pulled the net aside and looked down on her with greedy eyes . |