Example sentences of "on [pers pn] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She turned on me a look so cold , so calculating , that I almost shrank from her . |
| 2 | ‘ I do n't quite know what that 's supposed to mean , ’ he said severely , ‘ but sometimes I think you pull rank on me a bit , Cassandra . |
| 3 | Copper had trodden on me a couple of times in the stable , very uncharacteristically , and he also ran into a friend of mine while shying at something , as if she was n't there . |
| 4 | ‘ I got a gun pulled on me a couple of years ago in here . |
| 5 | I said , ‘ This is a temptation bestow on me a gift hidden from all thy creatures . ' ’ |
| 6 | I was captured by the Gestapo during the war and was terrified because I had on me a number of incriminating documents , lists of names , maps and so on . |
| 7 | As you must have seen , it died on me a moment ago . ’ |
| 8 | This guy who lives round the corner had just come out and he 'd started up in business again and he was laying it on me a gram at a time and I was doing it out in bags . |
| 9 | I do n't mind whether I 'm English or Irish , but the thing about this is that as I was there till I was about fifteen or sixteen , it rubbed off on me a lot the whole atmosphere of Ireland . |
| 10 | Enlightenment was urged on me the day I saw the old Jew float to the surface of the deep latrine , how he splashed and struggled into life , and was hoisted out by the jubilant guards , his clothes cleansed by the mire . |
| 11 | ‘ Did you care when you walked out on me the day that you told me about the notes and the wine glass , and then Rebecca came back to the office ? |
| 12 | It might bring down on me the wrath of Motherdear . ’ |
| 13 | I do not arrogate to myself a knowledge superior to that of the professionals , but I have had imposed on me the obligation to exercise a quasi-judicial function in assessing applications . |
| 14 | yes , it also er imposes on me the obligation of course erm under G of article three does n't it ? which I imagine , but you can tell me if I 'm wrong Mr is the one , is probably the one article erm , part of the article under which such things is the insurance directive is er produced , but I maybe wrong |
| 15 | ‘ Erin pronounced on me the Draoicht Tinneas Siorai . |
| 16 | I was a fool but nobody impressed on me the need to save . |
| 17 | He urged on me the need to embark on a full-sized book , and to send him a synopsis as soon as possible . |
| 18 | Nearly two years later he told me that in each of those ten Crusades , people on the committees had said that , although everyone had agreed on certain tasks to be done , they only actually got cracking on them a couple of days before I was due back ! |
| 19 | And we 've had one meeting be , between , just really detailed some of the , some of the issues that we find and focus on them a bit more . |
| 20 | Perhaps one of the reasons SunPics resisted the idea , other than the fact that it jeopardises the planet 's whole raison d'etre , is that the deal was reportedly sprung on them a week before it was signed . |
| 21 | They carry on them a specification of what is hypothesized ( e.g. NP ) , what information currently supports this hypothesis ( e.g. DET ADJ ) and what information is needed to confirm this hypothesis ( e.g. NOUN ) . |
| 22 | Right up until the coup in nineteen twenty seven they had been following a policy dictated by Moscow , dictated by Stalin which told them form alliances with the Kuomintang , work with the Kuomintang , first of all trust Chiang Kai-shek , then when Chiang Kai-shek turned on them they were told to trust the left Kuomintang leaders who were based in Wo Han in the middle Yangtze valleys , and then they turned on them a policy , in other words , that had proved absolutely disastrous . |
| 23 | The other affected blindness and certainly had something wrong with his eyes , though half the population of Egypt suffered from ophthalmia and the eyes could n't have been too bad since he relied on them every day . |
| 24 | Farmers had suffered from both the depressing consequences of over-production and the uncertainty of what the future held for them , and ever more bewildering changes were imposed on them every year . |
| 25 | I report on them every week for the Ministry of Agriculture . ’ |
| 26 | Ezpeleta and the local administration followed events and there is no reason to suppose that judges and municipal officials would have abandoned their ambiguous collaborationism had not St. Cyr , the French commander , later forced on them an oath of loyalty to Joseph — repugnant to the very legalism which , combined with inertia and pay , had kept them at their posts . |
| 27 | Training is now provided for the BVetMed degree , entitling graduates to be registered as members of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons , which confers on them the title of veterinary surgeon and the sole right to practise as such . |
| 28 | No wonder they 're touchy when you pick on them the way you do . ’ |
| 29 | And some companies are of such eminence in the world that , for an appropriate emolument , retired politicians , diplomats and higher civil servants are more than happy to bestow on them the benefits of the business acumen and personal probity for which they are rightly renowned . |
| 30 | It was to drive another nail into the coffin , into the public service 's coffin , to go alongside compulsory competitive tendering , erosion of working conditions and compulsory redundancies just to satisfy their own political dogma not caring about the citizens of this country , whose quality of life depends on them the services provided by the public sector . |