Example sentences of "on [pers pn] in the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is another of Nic Picot 's tricks which he tried on me in the pub outside the Magic Circle . |
| 2 | There , next to Miss Temple , stood the same black column which had frowned on me in the breakfast-room at Gateshead . |
| 3 | 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 . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Then we come up on me in the studio . |
| 5 | I explained , as gently as possible , that my mother was very old-fashioned and always checked up on me in the morning . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | If he came on them in the darkness and they were … but she would n't … it was perfectly natural … she was eighteen and he … |
| 8 | I mean , we do n't stand still at this because what will seem a very good service this year will look like a lousy service in five years ' time so let's not pretend the fact that we have n't achieved everything we 've achieved this year in some previous years means that we have n't made any improvements because I think one of the key areas where in fact er improvements have been made in previous years , and to a certain extent , one could say reading this I was worried by an apparent admission of very much reference or very much expenditure on them in the provision of day centres , because I think that a key element in care in the community and the fact that today so successfully this year has been the fact that a major number of th and I do n't think there 's any disagreement over this , a number of day centres , very efficient and very effective day centres , were developed , funded , provided mainly in the conurbation areas and I think Mr is right to highlight the fact that , as so often happens in these instances , it 's people who live in conurbations who get the best deal because it 's , it 's more economical , it 's easier to provide a centre for a large number of people than it is for a small number of people . |
| 9 | Do you remember those lovely Himalayas with snow on them in the distance , the picnics out to Wildflower Hall ( Lord Kitchener 's old residence ) , the horrible rock pythons twined round an Indian 's neck ( they were harmless ) , the lepers that bothered Rachel , and the teas at Davico 's ? |
| 10 | Finally , courts have shown considerable reluctance to allow judicial review of decisions of social workers designed to protect children from abuse , for fear of putting undue pressure on them in the performance of difficult tasks . |
| 11 | I 'm putting a fiver on them in the hope that they do a West ham ( last 2nd Div club to win it ? ) . |
| 12 | However , it is true that many people have succeeded in shedding weight on them in the past . |
| 13 | Archbishop Ralph 's eloquent letter to the pope had had no effect ; St Augustine 's was throwing off the restraints that their neighbours had succeeded in imposing on them in the past ; and York was poised for a final victory in the matter of the primacy . |
| 14 | If the centre parties were seen to be self-interested in blocking the formation of a government through their insistence on a deal to introduce electoral reform then this could reflect badly on them in the election so cutting back their seats — and the prospect for proportional representation . |
| 15 | Given too free a hand during years when he , like David II earlier , had fallen into English captivity , they resented the disciplines which their returning king was determined to impose on them in the cause of national unification . |
| 16 | Edward Pitt had called on them in the evening . |
| 17 | Martin Pipe weighed in with his usual daily double , Royal Wonder and Vagog , both ridden by Peter Scudamore , but fortune certainly smiled on them in the Coral Golden Hurdle Qualifier . |
| 18 | In the human home , the tame cat retains its infant vocalizations right through into adulthood and improves on them in the process . |
| 19 | I pulled a dirty trick on you in the pharmacy . |
| 20 | There are so many pressures on you in the West to look good . |
| 21 | ‘ I gave up on you in the end and bought some myself . ’ |
| 22 | She wanted to make Dan sound as good as possible and after some of the stunts he 'd played on her in the past that was difficult . |
| 23 | A head collar was eventually put on her in the chute , and when she threw her head up in anxiety a roustabout hit her on the face with a lump of wood ‘ for being so stupid ! ’ |
| 24 | She felt reassured from the article that other people suffered the same symptoms as she did , and could already identify her own propensity to jump to the conclusion that people looked down on her in the absence of any hard evidence . |
| 25 | She could not believe she had rounded on him in the way she had . |
| 26 | A corresponding duty is imposed on him in the case of lettings of offices and shops ( Offices Shops and Railway Premises ( Hoists and Lifts ) Regulations 1968 ( SI No 849 ) ) . |
| 27 | ‘ I 've read all the cuttings on him in the Herald library but I have n't yet got much sense of what he 's like . ’ |
| 28 | Oh , hello … ’ the Doctor replied , not able to tell who was bearing down on him in the fog . |
| 29 | Later it was suggested that he had received help from dissident Englishmen who preferred Border ruffians of like mind to their own unpopular Warden ; but nobody could deny the rescuer the sobriquet bestowed on him in the ballad — ‘ The Bold Buccleuch ’ . |
| 30 | Easily distinguishable in his bird-lime-encrusted shirt and shorts , he often had a look in his eye that spoke of clouds and freedom , rather than the shin-splitting hordes bearing down on him in the shape of the Corton Heath Corinthians . |