Example sentences of "on [pron] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | After the Helga Maria was finally towed into the remote Faroe Islands , a coastguard said : ‘ They were on nothing but a bottle drifting on the high seas . |
| 2 | ‘ Oh , you were always a fool , Neil , always — a fool to think that I would be content to live on nothing with a younger son and a fool to reject me now that I can give you the life which you ought to be living . ’ |
| 3 | She sat quite still and her eyes were fixed on me with a curious , dark look of sympathy mixed with something else . |
| 4 | His head turned on me with a snake-like swiftness , accusingly , but he said nothing . |
| 5 | As I prowled about outside the garden wall , it came on me with a start that a young , man was regarding me over the barrel of a pistol . |
| 6 | Skipper stopped dead and looked down on me with a definite ‘ What on earth are you doing there ? ’ look on his face . |
| 7 | ‘ I was so happy when he kinda stopped chewing on me for a second . ’ |
| 8 | It 's been creeping up on me for a while . |
| 9 | All it is yeah , is a project yeah that six peo me and other five other people yeah in the school were asked to do yeah for a university which is studying ch er children 's language yeah and what it 's like and basically I 've got to carry it on me for a weekend yeah , record loads of different conversations on ten different tapes |
| 10 | Both have had an enormous impact on me as a teacher . |
| 11 | I have been a manager long enough to know the fans only look on me as a punch bag , constantly on the end of the verbal one-two . |
| 12 | I have already described the tremendous impression that Hydén 's experiments — in which he measured increases in RNA and protein synthesis in tiny cellular regions from the brains of rats trained to balance on wires to reach for food — made on me as a young post-doc . |
| 13 | Fulton opened one eye and said , ‘ You 're not going to put water on me on a bloody cold day like this , are you , Alf ? ’ |
| 14 | ‘ You 'll be doing a runner on me in a minute , wo n't you ? ’ he said . |
| 15 | Some time later I was informed that I had been awarded the Verdienstkreuz or West German Order of Merit , First Class , which their ambassador pinned on me in a charming family ceremony at the Embassy in Grosvenor Square . |
| 16 | ‘ You 're going to drop some on me in a moment . ’ |
| 17 | I 'll tell you what happened today — a man I barely know forced himself on me in a snowy field , that 's what happened today . ’ |
| 18 | Even my quick-reaction steelies were beyond reach in time , though ; the rabbit was on me in a half-second , heading straight for my throat . |
| 19 | But Vivienne came down on me like a dragon . |
| 20 | ‘ Mother , she just jumped down from the wall on me like a ton of bricks … |
| 21 | He turned on me like a snake . |
| 22 | Every time I got near anything a floor walker 'd be on me like a shot … . |
| 23 | I made the mistake of criticizing you and she came down on me like a ton of bricks . ’ |
| 24 | Oppression lay on me like a dead beast , not gaunt and stiff-legged like the animals which lay where they had dropped along the desert road , but soft and smothering like something from which the breath had only just gone . |
| 25 | Acceptance fell on me like a sandbag . |
| 26 | Many advice workers are unaware that they have had a democratic part in the policy decisions that have adopted these training requirements and some even see these demands on them as a personal affront . |
| 27 | So there was bad feeling from the start : the tourists resentful of the Swedes , who looked down on them as a bunch of grubby anarchists . |
| 28 | Keep your exercises plain and simple , and you have a better chance of enjoying them , rather than looking on them as a burden . |
| 29 | Also , in Germany firms such as Siemens originally joined employers ' associations yet never fully relied on them as a collective means of defending managerial prerogatives and curtailing union activities in the workplace . |
| 30 | Eileen O'Brien , IDC 's director of terminal services , says the surge in PC X server sales was n't forecast to happen until 1994 , attributing the rise to people who use X technology buying PCs and running X server software on them as a cheap alternative to X terminals and the improving quality of the software . |