Example sentences of "on [pers pn] with [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Skipper stopped dead and looked down on me with a definite ‘ What on earth are you doing there ? ’ look on his face . |
| 2 | His head turned on me with a snake-like swiftness , accusingly , but he said nothing . |
| 3 | She sat quite still and her eyes were fixed on me with a curious , dark look of sympathy mixed with something else . |
| 4 | Gav — who probably epitomised thick-skulledness , though admittedly would not be amongst one 's first fifteen when it came to offering proof of heavy traffic within the central nervous system — opened one bleary eye and focused on me with the same accuracy one has grown to expect from security forces aiming baton rounds at protesters ' legs . |
| 5 | And if you despair of ever getting the baby 's pushchair anywhere near clean , or perhaps those muddy football and rugby boots , just spend five minutes or so on them with the Steamatic . |
| 6 | Penry shot upright , yawning mightily as he rubbed eyes which focused on her with a noticeable lack of warmth . |
| 7 | His admirable Swiss detectives had checked up on her with the central police register of foreigners , and then elicited the information from the police in Jersey . |
| 8 | The problem was eventually reduced by putting a headstall on him with a long rope attached . |
| 9 | Davis touched his forelock and then glanced towards the Oaks , as though conscious that George 's eyes were fixed on him with a disturbing intensity . |
| 10 | The whole campaign dragged on him with a dead weight at this moment . |
| 11 | He turned and saw the waiter bearing down on him with an anxious look on his face . |
| 12 | Its thirteen powerful dorsal spines contain enough poison to kill any human swimmer who accidentally treads on it with a bare foot . |
| 13 | From the doorway , Pete watched her turn the key on it with a certain relief . |
| 14 | Always inspect each hook closely before you use it ; test it for breaking or bending ; reduce or remove the barb where necessary , and work on it with a fine oil stone until it is as sharp as you can get it — this should not actually be necessary with the new chemically sharpened hooks . |
| 15 | He sat on it with the two little girls and gave them a big smile . |
| 16 | Most people agreed that Pike had been out the night before working on it with an industrial fan . |
| 17 | Because in the poorer streets , if you saw — the neighbours in the street knew an old couple , they were too old to work … and if you saw an old blue van with a coat of arms on it with an old horse , old grey horse driven by an old grey man , drive up the street , stop outside the door , you knew that the old couple were on the way to the workhouse . |
| 18 | Then his face became more serious and his dark eyes fixed on hers with a new intensity . |
| 19 | We need only recognize that history is a method with no distinct object corresponding to it to reject the equivalence between the notion of history and the notion of humanity which some have tried to foist on us with the unavowed aim of making historicity the last refuge of a transcendental humanism : as if men could regain the illusion of liberty on the plane of the ‘ we ’ merely by giving up the ‘ I 's that are too obviously wanting in consistency . |