Example sentences of "on [pers pn] with [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The picture I am trying to convey , and it is one which is borne on me with passionate intensity almost every time I enter a primary school class , is of rigid and often unsuitable instruments ( the centralised curriculum plan , textbooks , methods of assessment ) imposed in situations where they do not apply or where they apply only to a small number of individuals within a group . |
| 2 | But even Ataturk is described as resembling ‘ an Aryan Dracula … in a black dinner-jacket , peering down on me with heavy eyebrows , a widow 's peak of blond hair indicating a mixed Macedonian birth ’ . |
| 3 | Two liquid brown eyes gazed on them with mild curiosity , rising and falling with the pull of the waves . |
| 4 | Rather than taking the piece as a whole she broke it down into smaller parts and then worked on them with separate hands and at varied rhythms . |
| 5 | When the eggs are cool , paint faces on them with felt-tip pens . |
| 6 | The Yugoslav media ( which claimed only four fatalities from these incidents ) said that police had acted in self defence after demonstrators fired on them with automatic weapons . |
| 7 | They travelled all that day without a break , and for most of the time the sun beat down on them with fiery intensity . |
| 8 | RIGHT It is essential that excavated finds are washed clean and their context number marked on them with waterproof ink . |
| 9 | No , this was a shark , a deadly , multi-toothed shark , and he was homing in on her with lethal precision . |
| 10 | Charity was very aware of two things : that Matthew made no attempt to define his relationship with her , and that Sandra Bamfield 's golden , cat-like eyes narrowed on her with vague suspicion . |
| 11 | The clinging nature of her garments was borne in on her with horrifying clarity as her startled gaze caught the back end of his grin . |
| 12 | Trapped against the hard edge of the wooden shelving by the taut pressure of his muscled thighs , the folly of her panicked action was borne in on her with devastating precision . |
| 13 | He pulled the net aside and looked down on her with greedy eyes . |
| 14 | His touch was feather-light , circling on her with gratifying recognition of needs she had n't known existed , coaxing in her sensations that were wild and intensely pleasurable . |
| 15 | Robyn turned the ignition over , realising he was gaining on her with remarkable speed , and the jeep roared into life . |
| 16 | Perhaps God in his wisdom has told us only a little about the nature and personhood of Satan so that we are not tempted to dwell on him with morbid fascination . |
| 17 | The Shah now showed himself incapable of decisive action , Dispatches form Both the British and the American embassies at the time commented on him with patronizing contempt . |
| 18 | She treated him as a malnourished curiosity , swooping down on him with tender cluckings , and seductive titbits — a crab claw , a lychee , a chocolate truffle — asking him to describe God , or Heaven , or sin , treating him as a confessional , trying to dress him up as a cardinal , showing him off to her friends . |
| 19 | Alain came in without even knocking and she turned on him with furious hurt . |
| 20 | But Rohmer had to know the answer to the questions that had fascinated and intrigued him for so long ; the questions that bore down on him with ever-increasing force during the drug-induced hallucinatory periods that were now so frequent in his life . |
| 21 | Or simply told the truth — told them there and now that it was n't Syl 's smile that repelled me but that I had an intuitive conviction that there was something unsound in him , something unwholesome by virtue of being undeveloped , something that would , sooner or later , cause me to turn on him with bitter cruelty as Nour had turned on me . |
| 22 | The walls and ceilings were all painted the same insipid magnolia and there was rush matting on the floor which trapped bits of food and stuff and hurt if you walked on it with bare feet . |
| 23 | It is evident that even at seventeen Nietzsche took life and his own views on it with great seriousness ; also , that implicit in those views was an uneasy relationship , here in its first stage , between the inevitable " mere specialism " of the professional classical scholar and a growing " longing for Greece " . |
| 24 | When I was in Jordan in nineteen sixty five studying Arabic , I helped the Save The Children Fund operation there for a few months and this was undoubtedly one of the most enjoyable and interesting short periods of my life and I look back on it with great warmth and affection and as your Royal Highness knows , it happens also that many , many years ago before you were our president , my father occupied your office and I therefore come to this meeting today with some knowledge of the fund 's activities and with great admiration and respect for all the that the fund has achieved . |
| 25 | For this reason , the seventeenth century looked on it with varying degrees of embarrassed caution and suspicion . |
| 26 | The mental strain of trying to concentrate on it with small children is considerable , and so is the physical strain of getting it all home . |
| 27 | Ask a friend to observe your performance and to report to you on it with ruthless candour . |
| 28 | Yesterday they played on it with delirious joy . |
| 29 | in an instant a huge wave literally stood straight up at our side , then dashed itself on us with vindictive fury . |