Example sentences of "on [pron] you [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | At the end of 1987 I was again in hospital and was then top priority , according to Magdi Yacoub , or MY , or the Prof , depending on whom you talked to . |
| 3 | It is not easy to come to terms with the idea that the parents on whom you depended all those years ago may now — possibly because of ill-health — have become dependent upon you . |
| 4 | And he warned his opponents : ‘ If you are going over the top on me you 've got to put me out of the game . |
| 5 | 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 . ’ |
| 6 | Told ya , I know when I were in hospital I had that stuff on me you know it were terrible even though it was |
| 7 | he rolls around on me you know my cheeks my ears and my hair does n't he ? |
| 8 | Oh do n't start on me you know , saying I ca n't there on Tuesday ! |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | So every pitchfork used to come out er one after another as if you had numbers on them you know . |
| 12 | There 's people have got something on them you know for |
| 13 | Maybe with erm erm putting fertiliser on them you know |
| 14 | There 's a hundred year secrecy on them you know . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Then you had to flitt them every day when the wool started to get loose on them you had to the tether would get in a and you had to clear their tethers . |
| 17 | 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 ? |
| 18 | you 've got all this wear on them you see and the bow of these stretchers said that no one would a able to get their feet on |
| 19 | I 'm going to get a little cushion to put on my you know . |
| 20 | On its you know there 's something the matter with it |
| 21 | My basic feeling is that while it is reasonable to ask that that a council , as a council , as a political grouping , may make the decisions about things , it is an absolute nonsense that many , many councils — some of them are worse than others — will not let their professionals speak out on their you know from using their own expertise , their own knowledge , their own experience , and quite often that that debate , the whole debate is gagged by the fact that you 're employees of the council . |
| 22 | If I hear of one more occasion on which you make these allegations I shall feel it my duty to pass them on to Connon myself . |
| 23 | It was the sort of pit once set for tigers , with stakes on the floor on which you got impaled if ever you fell in . |
| 24 | Then briefly describe an occasion on which you wish you 'd had a waterproof camera . |
| 25 | Address the document to Fred in the usual way but also send a blind copy to a folder called 193O728 — named after the date on which you wish to be reminded , in reverse . |
| 26 | If there is one day in the week on which you visit your mother-in-law and work an evening shift , do n't be tempted to do the week 's shopping in a crowded supermarket en route . |
| 27 | On which you lay , bed restful as a knife , |
| 28 | They might also reveal that you have been in some distant shopping mall far from your usual stomping ground on a day on which you had sworn ( at least to the office ) that you had been laid up with flu . |
| 29 | You may , perhaps , have thought that I put my point of view too emphatically to you on a matter on which you hold strong views , whereas I am not a partisan on the question of the death penalty . |
| 30 | What the actual , how many cases were written and what the estimated C C S A is , commission credit sum assured , I promise you , you will get to know that very quickly , because that 's the basis on which you get paid . |