Example sentences of "on [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At a desk in the centre , surrounded by files tied with pink ribbons , sat the Registrar , on whom all hope depended . |
| 2 | To suggest that there is an interested and informed big brother , on whom one side could lean , to give it some advantage over the other , is only to prolong the agony . |
| 3 | This chapter considers the financial consequences of community care policies for those women on whom such policies increasingly depend — the mothers , daughters , wives , sisters , neighbours and friends who are providing a substantial amount of help and support to a disabled or elderly person . |
| 4 | One could ask , therefore , what role is ascribed in Formalist theory to the author , on whom biographical criticism had been based ; what had become of the reality which mimetic and historically orientated theories had placed at the centre of their concerns ; and finally what function it gives to thought , which had been the focus of philosophically biased criticisms . |
| 5 | The traditional attitude to the poor had been to regard them , in the absence of unambiguous evidence to the contrary , as undeserving individuals on whom public money should be spent most sparingly . |
| 6 | The social worker provides care , assistance and , one hopes , understanding for those on whom most people turn their backs . |
| 7 | take me twelve months to get back on me blooming feet . |
| 8 | I 've got it on me blooming mind , you know when you keep singing it ? |
| 9 | What would happen if I loved him more than he loved me , and if he were to cheat on me one day ? |
| 10 | I knew that some of his friends were into drugs , but I did n't know Ryan was until he collapsed on me one day . |
| 11 | Gradually it began to dawn on me that while in the celluloid world all things were possible , in the other world it was quite a different story . |
| 12 | Even so , if you consider the pressures contingent on me that night , you may not think I delude myself unduly if I go so far as to suggest that I did perhaps display , in the face of everything , at least in some modest degree a ‘ dignity ’ worthy of someone like Mr Marshall — or come to that , my father . |
| 13 | Fortune smiled on me that night , and what could have been a disaster was averted . |
| 14 | ‘ No doubt why you honed in on me that night . ’ |
| 15 | A policeman came to call on me that Thursday evening , after Angy 's body had been found , asking what time the class ended and where I went afterwards … that sort of thing . |
| 16 | He said I was left stood there with this other mate on me other side going what 's he had to drink ? |
| 17 | I 've had people try to put one over on me many times , and let me tell you , gentlemen , few people succeed . |
| 18 | You 've had that on me all day ? |
| 19 | What 's all that wood on me clane flooar ? |
| 20 | Th , they stick on me half way down . |
| 21 | At the orphanage I was complimented on me English composition , but I 've always been a bit shy about speakin' up for meself . ’ |
| 22 | If I got on me high horse every time somebody hinted that I was n't like Betty Grable , I would have ridden to hell long before this . ’ |
| 23 | I did n't know a thing about it until Rob sprang it on me this afternoon . ’ |
| 24 | ’ On me this time . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ Just so long as you 're not planning any physical attacks on me this evening … |
| 26 | I was painting the back of the house one Saturday , when she shook me off the ladder , I got a compound fracture on me left leg . |
| 27 | It dawned on me last season , as we took a first-minute lead over Carlton Town West Saxons , that perhaps it was Fate that plucked pink , 544 , from the hat . |
| 28 | They can check up on me any time really . |
| 29 | Oh I 've got cold bits on me cold bits . |
| 30 | we was engaged , oh I have talked to other people but we was engaged in making locks but most of the locks , well they did do a , er wardrobe locks , small cabinet locks , lever locks but one of the biggest kind of locks we di er made was the locks for car cars and vans which , in them days , was was fantastic because most of the car bodies was of wood , the , the , the , the framework was wood , so erm the locks er were three or four , four by five er seven by eight and selvedges on them fourteen inches long , er bolts er the , the bolt mechanism would be anything from five eighths to an inch in di er er square with a radius on the end erm th there was er there was the sidecar locks which were smaller erm that was the sort of locks they made . |