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

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1 There 's nothing new that women have n't tried on me at one time or another .
2 ‘ You did not creep up on me at all .
3 He 'll turn on me at any minute — tell me I do n't understand — it 's all my fault .
4 Keep one eye on them at all times to avoid problems .
5 Hitch , Morton and McCann stood over the other three men while they transferred the precious cargo , guns trained on them at all times .
6 The slaves could come in , if need be , as support from the rear , resupplying the front line ; but Kit was loath to call on them at all , and they would have to fight unarmed .
7 I was gon na say , is n't , they ca n't do anything on them at all !
8 Is there no lids on them at all ?
9 But the fact is I have done it all , up till about the first six months there and then I started getting well , well out of my league , you start getting the machining and stuff like that , I have n't done much on them at all .
10 So documents do not get transit liability on them at all .
11 But motorists on the M4 the other day who glanced in their mirrors would have seen him bearing down on them at great speed in his newly acquired 1968 Bentley T-series .
12 But motorists on the M4 the other day who glanced in their mirrors would have seen him bearing down on them at great speed in his newly acquired 1968 Bentley T-series .
13 I suppose that in a few countries like Nazi Germany in nineteen-thirty-six the erm the nation 's amateur champions were given a special backing because of the force of nationalism erm national focus of attention on them at that date , but it , it still was , they were amateurs still meeting on equal ground .
14 They stopped shouting at each other , expecting the Headmaster to burst in on them at any moment .
15 But Wilkinson said : ‘ I am not interested in Manchester United and gaining or losing points on them at this stage .
16 ‘ You should be furious that I ran out on you at such an important time . ’
17 You must realize that I 've got it all worked out in my head so that this does n't have any bearing on you at all . ’
18 I it wo n't i but it wo n't , it wo n't impinge on you at all .
19 ‘ I remember when I first set eyes on you at that cocktail party and I thought , In spite of her dark flowing hair and her Mediterranean beauty she has a bite about her that can only be British .
20 He said that he might call on you at some other time . ’
21 I 'm sorry to intrude on you at this hour , but if you can give me a few minutes of your time you may be able to help me , and I 'll be very much obliged . ’
22 It was a girl like Eve Malone , a little pikasheen who would n't have had a drink on her at all , that would end up in hospital .
23 And certainly if it had happened to Katy , it probably would have made no impact on her at all .
24 He gathered her under the hips as if he were lifting laundry , before she was ready , spending no time on her at all .
25 He 'd been no more than another face around the yard on the two or three occasions that she 'd been by , no reason that he should have made any lasting impression on her at all .
26 It was impossible to tell if the plight of a girl she had never met made any impact on her at all .
27 Ken Stevens loved both his girls and Rachel knew it had taken him a long time to come to terms with Jennifer 's illness ; she doubted he would ever forgive David Markham for walking out on her at such a crucial time .
28 Telling her she 's naughty probably wo n't have much effect on her at this stage , as she wo n't really understand what that means .
29 For , though Alexander was there , he was clearly not expecting her to walk in on him at that precise moment .
30 Talking to Gavin Selerie in 1983 McGrath detailed some of the influences that came to work on him at that time .
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