Example sentences of "on [pers pn] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Have you come to revenge yourself on me for failing you ? ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | when I can feel that the sole responsibility rests on me for everything , whether it be a small crisis like this [ the Munshi rising ] , with the necessary action taken to preserve life , and to re-establish prestige or whether it be , as my day 's task has been , to confirm the hanging of criminals or the penal servitude , or the petty punishments of others , watching jealously that the executive officer does not inflict punishments which are unfair , or that the legal adviser does not hamper true justice by technical objections . |
| 6 | She came to rely on me for help and support and I am very , very upset . |
| 7 | ‘ God has not bestowed talent on me for me to dance attendance on a woman , and thereby waste my youth … . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I was so happy when he kinda stopped chewing on me for a second . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ It means , mother , that Craig is trying to put the blame on me for the thieving he 's done . ’ |
| 10 | The key to such a system is that everyone asks : Who in this organization depends on me for what information ? |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | I rely on everybody else , but she has to rely on me for her food and comfort . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The little creep was trying to get his own back on me for sleeping with his wife . ’ |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | She depended on me for company ; I was a better companion than Colonel Goreng . |
| 17 | It 's been creeping up on me for a while . |
| 18 | Many of my hon. Friends will take revenge on me for making that remark , because the Whips hijack hon. Members into taking part in , and thereby lengthening , long and tedious debates . |
| 19 | And I had the TV cameras on me for most of the time . |
| 20 | ‘ I pleaded with you to stay but you turned your back on me for your career and your partner . |
| 21 | When you walked out on me for your career and your partner ? ’ |
| 22 | If something goes wrong , they do n't know what they are going to have to pay because if I 'm a pension fund manager now , I do n't know what is likely to happen in the next year which is going call on me for compensation . |
| 23 | 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 |
| 24 | So I thought perhaps someone was playing a joke on me for , for a television show what Bobby Vinton would do if he found out a number one record in England . |
| 25 | The Americans must have felt as if he was taking revenge on them for what had happened , but they had the final laugh since most of Rank 's films were n't very good . |
| 26 | In an extreme case , someone may act on them for the reason that , or on the principle that , ‘ a little bit of what you fancy does you good ’ . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | The more frequently graded tests are used , the better will be the understanding of those who are to rely on them for the selection of candidates . |
| 29 | One might say that the ‘ candid camera ’ technique used for some television programmes , where people have tricks played on them for the benefit of the viewers , is rather in this mode of observation , though it is to be hoped that social researchers would not encourage people to make fools of themselves in the way television producers do . |
| 30 | Like the NEB , it was set up to operate separately from the direct institutions of central government and the Scottish Office , although dependent on them for funds ( up to £75 million in the mid-1980s ) and its board included representatives of business and labour as well as government . |