Example sentences of "on [pers pn] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I said do n't put so much onion on me the bloody things are repeating on me ! |
| 2 | With a high sense not only of justice but of dramatic effect he informed the judge that the only courses open to him were ‘ either to resign your post , or inflict on me the severest penalty if you believe that the system and law you are assisting to administer are good for the people ’ . |
| 3 | Certainly I always tried to remember the shocking effect which the sight of so many old prisoners , some of them bearded , all of them strangely dressed , had had on me the first time I arrived in a main camp . |
| 4 | ‘ And then set your thugs on me the first time my back 's turned . |
| 5 | ‘ It had the same effect on me the first time I saw it at night . ’ |
| 6 | I noticed he had a slight limp ; I recalled the attack on me the previous day and the wounds I had unwittingly inflicted , but decided to keep the matter to myself . |
| 7 | Will he ask his right hon. Friends the Home Secretary and the Secretary of State for the Environment to bring that home to the support services and the district decision-takers in South Yorkshire and to urge on them the prior claim of South Yorkshire police at this time ? |
| 8 | In the 1880s there had begun to run on them the transcontinental luxury expresses which were to dominate long-distance land travel until the second world war . |
| 9 | So I make no apologies for beginning this book in the way that a conjurer might , by giving you an apparently free choice from the pack while in fact forcing on you the particular card that I want you to take . |
| 10 | On the substantive application W. , who had attained the age of 16 , exercised her right to separate representation and resisted the application on the ground that section 8 of the Family Law Reform Act 1969conferred on her the same right as an adult to refuse medical treatment so that the court could not override her decision . |
| 11 | The governor expressed his disillusionment in letters to Penn and others : ‘ the hosts of mosquitoes are worse than armed men , yet the men without arms [ are ] worse than they ’ ; and attacked what he saw as Quaker hypocrisy : ‘ each praying with his neighbour on First Days , and then preying on him the other six ’ . |
| 12 | Bill thought I 'd died on him the other night cos I was , you know , me breathing and everything , and then all of a sudden I must 've relaxed for a bit and not needed to breathe and he give me a shock he says God I thought you were dead . |
| 13 | It was only when the Finance Minister , Navarro Rubio , confronted Franco personally , impressed on him the absolute and urgent necessity of devaluing the peseta , and asked him how he would feel if ration cards had to be reintroduced , that Franco reluctantly gave in . |
| 14 | Once she 'd put the phone down on him the previous night she 'd regretted her skittish way with him , and , after a heart-to-heart with Marlin in which she 'd told him she wanted to go back to England , and he 'd replied that it would all seem different in the morning and why did n't she just take a pill and lie down , she 'd decided to call him back . |
| 15 | I kept my eye on him the whole time . ’ |
| 16 | Gallaudet College conferred on him the Honorary Degree of B.D. in recognition of his work for the deaf , and he was appointed an Officer of the French Academy . |
| 17 | With all these new developments pressing in on him the last thing he could afford was an afternoon off work . |
| 18 | watched a documentary on it the other night and he said even by kicking someone now , if you do n't have n't , is n't an accident it 's like kissing someone you |
| 19 | She was here on a mission , and the sooner she set out on it the better ! |
| 20 | Some people prefer not to talk or to think about their tinnitus as they find that the more they concentrate on it the worse it becomes . |
| 21 | Chiang happens to have under her pillow a large red flag , and the five women embroider on it the five stars of the republic , meanwhile singing a song of praise . |
| 22 | She was convinced something was moving about in there , though when she shone a light on it the little thing disappeared down the hole . |
| 23 | The rub is the general conviction , based on the man 's record , that the same pragmatism , unencumbered by ideology or ethics , that leads him to sign an agreement one day will lead him to renege or cheat on it the next . |
| 24 | You must not touch this curtain with your hand , but must lay on it the milk-white feather which the hen will give you , and the curtain will be opened silently , by unseen hands , and the doors beyond it will lie open , and you may come into the hall where you shall find what you shall find . ’ |
| 25 | I kept my eyes on it the whole time , he wrote . |
| 26 | When I walk on it the whole thing starts to move and I am soon covered in the grey dust I am stirring up ; it fills my nostrils and triggers a memory that links the smell with rock climbing . |
| 27 | No matter what Bob says or Harry or any other member of the Conservative group , and I accept that they 've always been consistent on it the same as the Labour group has always been consistently against the merger I accept that they 've been consistently in favour of a total merger . |
| 28 | She had reasoned that as she had already mounted the horse and walked around on it the previous day , that this time it would be easy . |
| 29 | And that was the only time that I 've fired a rifle cos , well actually I went got , rose to a corporal I was a corporal when they finished and erm I was in er made cor lance corporal and then I was er with a heavy Vickers machine gun , that 's the one with the has water cooled casing on it the big heavy one you see , and I was with that , that team . |
| 30 | Silently she handed him her cup and watched him sip it appreciatively , his eyes on hers the entire time . |