Example sentences of "on [pers pn] from [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Perhaps someone could lure some , sportsmen , in tweeds into its tenebrous depths , where we could leap down on them from a great height to tweak their noses and fill their plus fours with cornflakes .
2 Indeed there are strong resemblances between them , especially when one looks back on them from the present day and across all that has happened in theology since Ritschl .
3 It is possible that local managers were looking over their shoulders in planning ahead ; there was little pressure on them from the informed public to achieve rundown and disperse asylum services .
4 A square of amber light shone down on them from the open hatch .
5 Not only will you be left standing in the cold , 596 gallons of specially prepared lumpy semolina garnished liberally with dead dogs and donkey droppings will cascade down on you from a secret overhead trapdoor .
6 of pressure on you from an awful lot of other sources , so do n't worry about it .
7 Moreover , ‘ They were all madly highly-sexed like the Starkadders ’ , she told an interviewer earlier in the decade , ‘ and I think a lot of the laughing at that kind of thing in Cold Comfort Farm comes from a ‘ distaste ’ … if you have it thrust on you from an early age , with divorces left , right and centre and people chasing each other round tables … well . ’
8 it was in my training , she but she had n't but your mother who never had before I could rely on her from a little child , I said stay there , when I came back , if I came back half an hour later , she 'd still of been there Linda would of been
9 ‘ His father pointed them out to him often enough and he knew that things would drop on him from a great height if he put a foot wrong . ’
10 Look on it from a medical angle if you like , as a cure for an ailment . ’
11 She borrows books on it from the local library and copies out old patterns .
12 That conflict of views has its fierce advocates on both sides , and I am neither well informed nor dispassionate enough to comment on it From the presumed perspective of John Howard , the Ellis-Beto administrations overall emerge with credit , because they did insist on the publication of official rules , and that was a big breakthrough .
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