Example sentences of "[verb] on you [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A tall , prematurely white-haired man in a navy blue suit , with eyes that could focus on you as if you were a fly that had settled on a distant door-knob , he could dominate a large room while seated behind a desk at one end of it and without raising his voice above a conversational level . |
| 2 | Does your Windows 3.1 sometimes freeze on you without an error message of any kind ? |
| 3 | Moreover , ‘ They were all madly highly-sexed like the Starkadders ’ , she told an interviewer earlier in the decade , ‘ and I think a lot of the laughing at that kind of thing in Cold Comfort Farm comes from a ‘ distaste ’ … if you have it thrust on you from an early age , with divorces left , right and centre and people chasing each other round tables … well . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I was looking on you as my date tonight . ’ |
| 5 | We are now facing the most serious challenge in our history and depend on you for support . |
| 6 | rather than have imposed on you by somebody else . |
| 7 | They would rather ring for a cab for you , or even give you a lift home , than have to deal with any attack that could be made on you on your lonely way home . |
| 8 | Do you ever feel that life is getting on top of you or that you want to run away from the demands made on you by career or family ? |
| 9 | If they can realise and appreciate the demands made on you by your husband 's incapacity they should reconsider the level of minding you have been doing . |
| 10 | In those times , a poet could descend on you with all his retinue and eat you out of house and home . |
| 11 | They 'd say : " We look on you as part of the family — we feel we know you so well . " |
| 12 | What effect has this had on you as a person now ? |
| 13 | ‘ Well , he can atone for his sins by waiting on you for a few days , ’ Jack said laughingly . |
| 14 | I know the spells laid on you at your birth , for I heard her sing them — and I smiled , may I be forgiven , for I thought then I 'd have the strength to break them ! |
| 15 | I rely on you for my information on domestic American politics , on which , admittedly , I am not an expert . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | I it wo n't i but it wo n't , it wo n't impinge on you at all . |
| 18 | Again last week we talked about the feasibility of going to Australia for a week and the impact it would have on you after things like jetlag . |
| 19 | So even if we do n't call on you to , do it , you wo n't be called . |
| 20 | He said that he might call on you at some other time . ’ |
| 21 | you 're talking as much a about y it 's reflecting on you as the line manager , how much are you communicating with this |
| 22 | It 's a great help to know I can rely on you for such last minute needs ! |
| 23 | I 'd like to feel that I can rely on you for help . ’ |
| 24 | I 'm sorry to intrude on you at this hour , but if you can give me a few minutes of your time you may be able to help me , and I 'll be very much obliged . ’ |
| 25 | Th this has been foisted on you by a group of activists sort of |
| 26 | Wasted on you of course . ’ |
| 27 | They did not pick on you for the hell of it . |
| 28 | A thousand salutes 0 Caesar and may Jupiter smile on you at the Neronian Games . |
| 29 | He went on to quote Michelet : ‘ A woman must breathe on you for you to be a man . |
| 30 | Mildly , he said , ‘ If you insist on facing things , why not think about how the way you 've behaved hardly leads me to think on you as a sensitive soul . |