Example sentences of "on [pron] [pers pn] [vb base] " in BNC.

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1 This brings as its corollary the awareness of the one on whom we depend .
2 It is unhelpful if Ministers or others speaking on the right hon. Gentleman 's behalf suggest that internment will not be used or that it is not a viable and justifiable means of dealing with those whose training and speciality is keeping themselves out of the courts and out of the hands of those on whom we depend to impose justice for the deaths that have occurred in Northern Ireland .
3 There are 500,000 nurses in Britain today on whom we depend for our good health at home , in hospital and at work .
4 Our scope is also even further limited by the set of authors on whom we have chosen to concentrate .
5 Treading the water , not knowing on whom we feed .
6 As well as having to adapt to major changes in their status , environment , lifestyle and relationships , Elizabeth and Helen have to cope with the adjustments made by the people on whom they depend .
7 Hosea has to recall them to Yahweh , their first love , when they have gone and committed adultery , like Hosea 's own wife , with some other ‘ Lord ’ on whom they have lavished their worship and devotion .
8 If two persons agree that the price of property should be fixed by a valuer on whom they agree , and he gives that valuation honestly and in good faith , they are bound by it .
9 Certainly , as I will argue later , ’ sport and show business constitute the two spheres in which blacks have made immense contributions and which seem to throw up figures with whom black kids tend to identify and on whom they model themselves .
10 How individuals view themselves depends in part on whom they compare themselves with .
11 On whom I think the world ought to take a little pity .
12 As he said : ‘ If I 'm deciding on whom I want to live with for fifty years — well , that 's the last decision I want my head to be ruled by my heart . ’
13 This raises questions at present unanswerable , and complicated by the existence of a second long base in the sanctuary which seems to have supported a pursuit-scene ( possibly Zeus and the Nymph Aegina on whom he begot Aiakos , Telamon 's father ) ; and this might have been a first west pediment .
14 The student who seems fascinating across a seminar room , or the sorrowful homesick student in the crowded bar , on whom you take pity — these are not necessarily the ones with whom it might be best to share a kitchen all year .
15 And he warned his opponents : ‘ If you are going over the top on me you 've got to put me out of the game .
16 He says : ‘ If you 're going to go over the top on me you 've got to put me out of the game because I 'll be coming back for you . ’
17 Told ya , I know when I were in hospital I had that stuff on me you know it were terrible even though it was
18 he rolls around on me you know my cheeks my ears and my hair does n't he ?
19 Oh do n't start on me you know , saying I ca n't there on Tuesday !
20 and then I thought well I ca n't cos , I 've got er calculator in this bag and I have n't got it on me you see .
21 You can put one on them we 've converse for the , put it on for the evening
22 Oh no no , if he , if he tried to pull a fast one we 've already had one like that th that came in and bought a set unfortunately his father paid by cheque , oh no , well he paid by two cheques which , they had a card on them I know very well they ca n't stop them very well and he went out and er , and er the T V was only in the car and he went round a corner quick and he went brrrm like that you know
23 The instructions on them I suppose ?
24 I 've told him and he gave that wee white one and it 's , I still take the kind of , but I do go on them you know , when I 'm really bad .
25 So every pitchfork used to come out er one after another as if you had numbers on them you know .
26 There 's people have got something on them you know for
27 Maybe with erm erm putting fertiliser on them you know
28 There 's a hundred year secrecy on them you know .
29 You 're in a dead end as far as Charlie 's records are concerned , and even if you get your hands on them you 've no guarantee they 'll be of any use .
30 So I decided that it was time to pack up I decided that the nights were made to sleep on n n n and I was going to sleep on them you see ?
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