Example sentences of "on [pron] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I always get in bed on me left me right |
| 2 | He fetches half a tree in his dripping mouth and insists on me throwing it for him to fetch . |
| 3 | I might go out and buy it straight away , I might wait weeks , months before I acquire the particular thing to give to you as a gift , you 've got ta wait on on me giving it to you . |
| 4 | Yes , he 's always jumping on me to tell me to do more for local radio and get South East Arts and South East Arts clients more regularly in contact with local radio , and I must admit on the latter case I do think that many of our clients do spend a great deal of time and erm want to be active with local radio . |
| 5 | Whatever the activity , I still see this as the old style … it 's teacher-led from that point of view in that they rely on me to start them off and I mean it 's almost as if I stand there with a gun and say ‘ Go ! ’ |
| 6 | You set Vinnie on me to get us out the house . |
| 7 | But they just exhausted themselves after all these years — and I was in the right place at the right time , so they all settled on me to direct it . |
| 8 | I wonder if the , the director plans to talk about the cri criteria we will work towards with the independent erm living fund and I wonder if we could possibly accommodate something within the criteria because I think the number of people involved needing adaptation to their home over about five thousand is fairly small but for those people it will make the difference between them being able to remain in their own home or within the community care package , a vast sum of money being needed to be spent on them to accommodate them within residential accommodation . |
| 9 | And problems on them rearranging them and then through to these to the graphs . |
| 10 | ‘ Suggesting we do n't ride on them strikes me as a whole lot better , yes , ’ said Angalo . |
| 11 | It was n't fair on them to give them life . |
| 12 | Anyone who had drugs on them dropped them to the floor . |
| 13 | Since , on principle , they could not say that lesbianism made them nervous and that the complex new demands made on them scared them , they found more underhand and aggressive ways of expressing their resentments . |
| 14 | The word chrysalis is Greek for ‘ gold ’ and was given because many chrysalises have gold spots on them to disguise them . |
| 15 | a couple of quid on them do you ? |
| 16 | The first was just 20 minutes after the polls closed when , during a sample of random live interviews in Manchester , a man with a business on the verge of bankruptcy cheerfully admitted that the Tories had got him into this and he relied on them to get him out . |
| 17 | Right now the best are Arsenal and it 's just a pity they 're not in one of the European competitions , because my money will have been on them to win it . |
| 18 | The English House Condition survey , which the Department of the Environment published shortly before Christmas 1982 , showed a sharp increase in the number of homes now needing £7000 or more spent on them to bring them up to an acceptable standard . |
| 19 | And er put that on and tied them back and front and up on them tied them to the sides of the coble and and usually towed it with another rowing boat . |
| 20 | On our return to the schooner we found Mr. Gould no longer firm in his former determination to depart immediately , and on my telling him he must give me his hand in pledge that he would stay here and work longer if necessary , he , after a little hesitation , consented . |
| 21 | Midge — Mrs. Bonnard insisted on my reading them . ’ |
| 22 | I could n't help remembering the pleasure I had had in my clothes , how keen my mother had been on my wearing them , how we had often designed them and chosen them together and my mother had made most of them . |
| 23 | Suitably moved by the warm , fuzzy substances emanating from Kerr 's garage , Mark Arm grabs his harmonica , eases that ever-improving voice up several notches on the pain-ometer and dispenses such homages to excess as ‘ Flat on the floor , flat on my back/Let me tell ya baby I 've found where it 's at , ’ from the scrappy bustle of ‘ Great Down Here ’ . |
| 24 | And what 's that sitting on my give me a hand for my bed you know . |
| 25 | Haldane , according to Drummond , had assured him that he might ‘ depend on all his interest in order to make me happy in every opportunity , in the event on my giveing him my vote & intrest ’ . |
| 26 | I felt rather as I should if , on my asking him what he would like for lunch , he had replied ‘ thriftiness ’ , or ‘ thirty-seven degrees Centigrade ’ . |
| 27 | That 's what I like you co , you depend on someone helping me out and |
| 28 | Nothing changes/feelings shift , move endlessly in circles/moths beating at glass endlessly/all that energy expended on nothing/no-one lets you in/desire and what can be desired are all fixed within strict parameters/ established as everything you 're not/desire written against your body/encoded in all the spaces which are not you/contours which are not yours/you occupy the gap between desire and fulfilment/absence of choice/no choice at all/why are moths nocturnal when so strongly attracted to light ? |
| 29 | And you do n't need to mark the one twenty on I mean you can do if you like . |
| 30 | Thirty years on I saw it again , when I started going to the Aegean . |