Example sentences of "on [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She sat quite still and her eyes were fixed on me with a curious , dark look of sympathy mixed with something else . |
| 2 | His head turned on me with a snake-like swiftness , accusingly , but he said nothing . |
| 3 | As I prowled about outside the garden wall , it came on me with a start that a young , man was regarding me over the barrel of a pistol . |
| 4 | Skipper stopped dead and looked down on me with a definite ‘ What on earth are you doing there ? ’ look on his face . |
| 5 | Gav — who probably epitomised thick-skulledness , though admittedly would not be amongst one 's first fifteen when it came to offering proof of heavy traffic within the central nervous system — opened one bleary eye and focused on me with the same accuracy one has grown to expect from security forces aiming baton rounds at protesters ' legs . |
| 6 | ‘ I was so happy when he kinda stopped chewing on me for a second . ’ |
| 7 | It 's been creeping up on me for a while . |
| 8 | All it is yeah , is a project yeah that six peo me and other five other people yeah in the school were asked to do yeah for a university which is studying ch er children 's language yeah and what it 's like and basically I 've got to carry it on me for a weekend yeah , record loads of different conversations on ten different tapes |
| 9 | He was honest enough to admit that he had to rely on me for the practical side of the business , and gave me a good rise in pay . |
| 10 | Maybe I 'd set him at ease by saying ‘ g'day ’ , but he looked like he 'd known me all his eight years , and leant quite steadily on me for the drive to Robert 's parents ' cottage , where we arranged photos . |
| 11 | ‘ It means , mother , that Craig is trying to put the blame on me for the thieving he 's done . ’ |
| 12 | He may have been dependent on me for the time being for his physical well-being , but at the deepest level he was dependent on Montaine . |
| 13 | Both have had an enormous impact on me as a teacher . |
| 14 | I have been a manager long enough to know the fans only look on me as a punch bag , constantly on the end of the verbal one-two . |
| 15 | I have already described the tremendous impression that Hydén 's experiments — in which he measured increases in RNA and protein synthesis in tiny cellular regions from the brains of rats trained to balance on wires to reach for food — made on me as a young post-doc . |
| 16 | A burst of laughter , another joke , more laughter , more jokes , laughter/jokes/laughter/jokes in an escalating feedback spiralling higher , robbing the guests of the ability to eat , straining our jawbones , while Robin is relentless , driven , reckless , focusing on me as the host — host of the dinner , but of his wit — reducing my voluble everyday self to a tongue-tied Zeppo Marx , hallucinating , hungry , exhausted , and in pain , until kapow ! |
| 17 | When , when they 've been down , and they 've been back to school , they 've sent me a collections of drawings and nice little notes about it , and we 've come firm friends because first they look at me , on me as the pond woman , oh , they saw me on television getting my award , and erm they thought that was rather wonderful , and so we , we , we talk and now the , the first ones have quite grown up . |
| 18 | I 've got half a dozen billeted on me at the moment . |
| 19 | This one leapt on me at the exact moment that Junior unloosened his arms and thrust himself into his father 's crying : ‘ Daddy , Daddy , I like this nice man . |
| 20 | He called on me at the apartment a few hours before I left for the airport . |
| 21 | ‘ I was so afraid you would be hurt , then I found myself wondering if I could trust David or whether he would walk out on me at the first sign of trouble . ’ |
| 22 | Fulton opened one eye and said , ‘ You 're not going to put water on me on a bloody cold day like this , are you , Alf ? ’ |
| 23 | You 've done nothing but hit on me since the day — ’ |
| 24 | And I hope you have n't gone to any trouble cooking for me because I can barely keep owt down these days , not after t'hospital , me appetite quite sickened away on me wi' the things they serve up — greasy bits o' beef skirt and nasty little salads wi' half a two-week old egg and a few outside leaves o' lettuce and a bit o' wet beetroot , no , it was an effort getting it down , let alone keeping it down — I can tell you , there was many as could n't , eggs from t'infernal regions we got for us breakfast as often as not , right stink bombs , but could you get any o' them nurses to have a sniff or give us another i'stead ? |
| 25 | ‘ You 'll be doing a runner on me in a minute , wo n't you ? ’ he said . |
| 26 | Some time later I was informed that I had been awarded the Verdienstkreuz or West German Order of Merit , First Class , which their ambassador pinned on me in a charming family ceremony at the Embassy in Grosvenor Square . |
| 27 | ‘ You 're going to drop some on me in a moment . ’ |
| 28 | I 'll tell you what happened today — a man I barely know forced himself on me in a snowy field , that 's what happened today . ’ |
| 29 | Even my quick-reaction steelies were beyond reach in time , though ; the rabbit was on me in a half-second , heading straight for my throat . |
| 30 | I suspect that Mum is angry about this , as she usually relies on me in the summer to look after my younger sister while she is at work . |