Example sentences of "on [pers pn] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cos there 's some , they used to be carrying timber down the dock all one length and what already slung , already stacked for 'em and the way it cost , the way it go put the wires on me for sure now and there ai n't much to let now . |
| 2 | Shame on me for this is the first issue of SR I 've ever read ( Nov ) , but I hope it will not be the last , for may I say , I think I may have at last found a space where I can be heard — most women 's magazines shun the type of letter I submit — not cosy enough for their letters pages , I suspect . |
| 3 | We dined on spicy fish which repeated on me for most of the evening in the Jac , meeting pals , until I drowned it in an ocean of beer . |
| 4 | And I had the TV cameras on me for most of the time . |
| 5 | If you want to share them , put a new condom on them for each user or wash them thoroughly in hot water ( as long as the toy is not electrical ! ) . |
| 6 | The Dependency Ratio , refers to the ratio between those in employment and those dependent on them for financial support , — directly or indirectly eg children , the elderly and the unemployed . |
| 7 | That way you will be paying interest on them for many years . |
| 8 | And they quote epistles of St. Paul so difficult that the theologians , who have been working on them for two thousand years , have not got to the bottom of them . |
| 9 | With almost all the farms having stock on them for 365 days , and with wives restricted in the heavy work they could do , most men had quite a bit to do when they returned from work . |
| 10 | That has brought a great deal of success , because the French Government are now taking the tough measures that we have been pressing on them for 10 years . |
| 11 | I do n't put a meaning on them for other people , they must form their own ideas ; I know what I meant when I made them , but it may not be the same thing for other people . |
| 12 | Someone up there must have wagered a few bob on them for another Grand Slam . |
| 13 | This belief in the witches power becomes more evident as the play goes on and he comes to rely on them for more . |
| 14 | Because the racket has a diagonal string pattern , spin shots ( top spin and slice ) become easier to play , basically because the strings on such a pattern are longer and therefore the ball rests on them for longer . |
| 15 | It 's a great help to know I can rely on you for such last minute needs ! |
| 16 | You 're getting too much mouth on you for one as does n't earn her keep . |
| 17 | The world is a huge and challenging laboratory for your work , and we lesser mortals rely on you for fascinating facts , not to mention fascinating television and radio programmes . |
| 18 | I have had my eye on you for some time . |
| 19 | I 'm going to be dependent on you for three or four years . |
| 20 | ‘ The sergeant-major has had his eye on you for several weeks , ’ Trentham continued , ‘ and feels you 'd be a good candidate for promotion to lance-corporal . |
| 21 | ‘ I 'll have the law on you for this , mate , I tell you , ’ he finished helplessly . |
| 22 | If he 'd had his hands on her for one minute , he could have given her something to remember him by ; if only he 'd spat a single obscenity into her ear before running off , it would have been something . |
| 23 | If someone like a model says yes , I 'm gorgeous , we can all pick on her for that , saying , oh yes she 's got those looks , but what a horrible person . |
| 24 | You can rely on her for that . |
| 25 | Aquino 's economic cutbacks , imposed on her for all the right reasons , have caused considerable suffering . |
| 26 | With six children to feed she felt unable to challenge him about his mistress lest he walked out on her for good . |
| 27 | Joan 's husband suffers from motor neurone disease , is very weak and has been in a wheelchair for the last nine years , almost totally dependent on her for physical care . |
| 28 | A young Roman Catholic soldier from the Lancashire Fusiliers was billeted on him for two summer months of 1941 and never forgot the joyful singing which used to accompany Ramsey 's washing and shaving before he went off to the cathedral each morning . |
| 29 | We ca n't keep imposing on him for that amount though really . |
| 30 | When Vinnie Jones was a player here they put one camera on him for 90 minutes , nothing else . |