Example sentences of "on [pers pn] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maybe I 'd set him at ease by saying ‘ g'day ’ , but he looked like he 'd known me all his eight years , and leant quite steadily on me for the drive to Robert 's parents ' cottage , where we arranged photos . |
| 2 | ‘ It means , mother , that Craig is trying to put the blame on me for the thieving he 's done . ’ |
| 3 | He may have been dependent on me for the time being for his physical well-being , but at the deepest level he was dependent on Montaine . |
| 4 | When , when they 've been down , and they 've been back to school , they 've sent me a collections of drawings and nice little notes about it , and we 've come firm friends because first they look at me , on me as the pond woman , oh , they saw me on television getting my award , and erm they thought that was rather wonderful , and so we , we , we talk and now the , the first ones have quite grown up . |
| 5 | A burst of laughter , another joke , more laughter , more jokes , laughter/jokes/laughter/jokes in an escalating feedback spiralling higher , robbing the guests of the ability to eat , straining our jawbones , while Robin is relentless , driven , reckless , focusing on me as the host — host of the dinner , but of his wit — reducing my voluble everyday self to a tongue-tied Zeppo Marx , hallucinating , hungry , exhausted , and in pain , until kapow ! |
| 6 | He called on me at the apartment a few hours before I left for the airport . |
| 7 | I 've got half a dozen billeted on me at the moment . |
| 8 | You 've done nothing but hit on me since the day — ’ |
| 9 | This is another of Nic Picot 's tricks which he tried on me in the pub outside the Magic Circle . |
| 10 | There , next to Miss Temple , stood the same black column which had frowned on me in the breakfast-room at Gateshead . |
| 11 | She continued : ‘ I am 70 years old but I felt I must make this sacrifice for them , even though the constraints on me in the future are very great . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Then we come up on me in the studio . |
| 13 | I explained , as gently as possible , that my mother was very old-fashioned and always checked up on me in the morning . |
| 14 | I suspect that Mum is angry about this , as she usually relies on me in the summer to look after my younger sister while she is at work . |
| 15 | She had the edge on me from the point of view of rank , but I felt secure in the knowledge that ‘ J ’ ( my Corporal ) did n't want to take her out anyway . |
| 16 | It 's fun really , because I can enjoy myself , I 've got no pressure on me from the party to succeed , ’ he said gamely . |
| 17 | ‘ Gloves , cane and collar astonish these artists in shirt-sleeves — they have always looked on them as the insignia of feeble-mindedness … still , it 's great to be in the thick of the dog-fights of great art . ’ |
| 18 | One might say that the ‘ candid camera ’ technique used for some television programmes , where people have tricks played on them for the benefit of the viewers , is rather in this mode of observation , though it is to be hoped that social researchers would not encourage people to make fools of themselves in the way television producers do . |
| 19 | However , in school their energy was not always tapped and was sometimes directed towards disrupting the school or , as one pupil said : ‘ to get our own back on them for the way they have treated us ’ . |
| 20 | The more frequently graded tests are used , the better will be the understanding of those who are to rely on them for the selection of candidates . |
| 21 | It was the first time I 've seen either Perberton and White so I 'll reserve judgement on them for the time being . |
| 22 | But with fighter pilots depending on them for the fuel to get home with , the tanker crews say they have a feeling their friends will look after them . |
| 23 | In an extreme case , someone may act on them for the reason that , or on the principle that , ‘ a little bit of what you fancy does you good ’ . |
| 24 | Regional planning authorities are also informed of proposals for revocation , modification and discontinuance of Use Orders , and can make representations or objections on them to the secretary of state . |
| 25 | The following proposed amendments to the Constitution are for your careful consideration so that you can comment and vote on them at the A.G.M. on Friday , 19th March 1982 . |
| 26 | ‘ I 'll tell you quite frankly , I would n't know where to put my hands on them at the moment . |
| 27 | ’ One has to balance these things carefully : they 're capable of erupting if churches are inflicted on them at the rate of more than , say , one every other day . |
| 28 | Assets are frozen , you ca n't get your hands on them on the whole until you 've got your grant of probate or you 've made declarations if it 's a small will . |
| 29 | And the other thing about the I-s is if you make sure you put a dot on them on the top then if it looks a bit like if you people ca n't tell that you 've done an E or an I , if you 'd a dot on top it 's got to be an I . |
| 30 | By the early 1830s the very ‘ glut ’ of petitions so held up the normal business of the day that , although an exceptional petition like that of the ladies could make an impression , the House of Commons acted to refer petitions to a committee and deny immediate speech on them on the floor of the House . |