Example sentences of "on [pron] [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've got two Walkmans on me right now . |
| 2 | ‘ Do you think you could possibly look in on me in about fifteen minutes ? |
| 3 | ‘ Did you notice how his eyes were on me almost right through the performance ? |
| 4 | What 's more , 'e 's callin' on me late tonight to find out if I 've 'ad another go and if I 've earned the quid . ’ |
| 5 | This was impressed on me very strongly as one of R. C. Moore 's regiment of workers producing Volume H of his vast Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology . |
| 6 | It did n't dawn on me how seriously injured I was until I got into hospital and they sent for a cameraman to photograph me because they had never seen anyone survive injuries like mine and they wanted a record . |
| 7 | so they 'll be , I , I put the perhaps start on them tomorrow then and get so you 'll get them back |
| 8 | Despite their lack of understanding of these ideas , many pupils could perform the skill based on them reasonably well . |
| 9 | She advanced on them bravely rather than hopefully . |
| 10 | Modular or unit credit courses are currently the subject of much discussion in higher education , but interest in them in this country dates back to the 1970s ( much earlier in the USA ) when , for example , the Nuffield team produced a report on them rather facetiously called The Container Revolution ( Mansell 1976 ) . |
| 11 | The Charles Bal and Sir Robert Sale were beating about in the darkness for the whole of the twenty-seventh , and ash rained down on them so steadily that the crews had to spend hours shovelling it off the decks and shaking it clear of sails and rigging . |
| 12 | Only thirty-seven were full-scale royal commissions , although Harold Wilson splashed out on them so liberally that even the Great and Good began to complain that the currency had been devalued . |
| 13 | he should be on them now though . |
| 14 | One duck , however , was n't a very serious mother — she would lay her eggs all right , but could n't be bothered to sit on them long enough for them to hatch . |
| 15 | Chub feed on them extremely fiercely , and even small ones give bites to rival a ravenous barbel . |
| 16 | I looked in on them fairly frequently after that . |
| 17 | The phrase conveys a sense of the desired relationship between elderly people and their relatives , especially their children : they want to be on good terms with them , and to have regular contact with them , but they do not want to rely on them too directly . |
| 18 | ‘ I 'm not sure some of the upright ones will hold you , Chief Inspector , I sit on them very gingerly myself . ’ |
| 19 | The captain came in from the wing of the bridge with a hint of a smile on his usually rather stern face . |
| 20 | The doctor , on his now daily visit , said simply to Alexandra , ‘ A matter of time , my dear , a matter of time . ’ |
| 21 | Outside , I would always walk briskly , urging on my more sluggardly companions , or walk along walls , rails , edges , like a child , delighting in my ability to balance myself . |
| 22 | ‘ Then you 'll need to go down on your knees in that chapel Christian Timms built and call on someone more highly qualified than either me or Doctor Cheatle . |
| 23 | The year 1974 saw both Ceauşescu 's ‘ election ’ as President of the Socialist Republic of Romania at a ceremony in which he bestowed on himself not only a sash of office but a sceptre too . |
| 24 | Put the T V on somebody please now |
| 25 | Optimistic assessments aside , the fact is that Bull 's role as a hardware manufacturer continues to weigh financially on its potentially more profitable ventures . |
| 26 | By the same token the Americans , on their not entirely successful Schweinfurt ventures , lost a great number of aircraft . |
| 27 | For this is a matter on which not just doctors or lawyers , but all of us , must have our say and our way . |
| 28 | His professional judgement , on which so much depended , suggested intuition rather than ratiocination . |
| 29 | Another major area of United States dominance has been the computer industry , on which more shortly . |
| 30 | The land folded in on itself as far as you could see — green and brown hillsides sinking down in repetition , marked by the dark masses of trees and hedges . |