Example sentences of "[vb infin] on [pers pn] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How can we know what people 's interests are if they do not act on them because they are induced or coerced not to ? |
| 2 | Well , I could n't jump on her and shout , ‘ Take it , take it , here 's the train fare ’ , could I ? |
| 3 | All the same , I was nervous they might jump on us when we left . |
| 4 | There would be no room for the birds to fly , and dead birds would fall on me as I walked . |
| 5 | Ronni wished an entire treeload of acacia blossom would fall on her if she could just experience again the thrilling touch of that hand . |
| 6 | If you are an ‘ at risk ’ person , and not very stable on your feet , or walk with an aid , do not have open fires in the house — you could fall on them and be badly burned . |
| 7 | The innovation of the laser-guided bomb is that you can aim at anything : just point the laser at it , and the bomb will fall on it if it can . |
| 8 | She let her fingers linger on his and smiled . |
| 9 | It 'll soon dry on me while I 'm leaning against the cows , they 're warm , they are . ’ |
| 10 | Yeah well we did n't concentrate on it when it started actually , we was all talking were n't we ? |
| 11 | You can more than survive the twentieth-century diet ; you can flourish on it if you know how to make the right choices . |
| 12 | BELVILLE : I had thought you should have sat at table with me , but when I find you can not forget your original but must prefer my menials to me , you shall wait on me while I sup . |
| 13 | I shall beam on him as I serve him lunch and if the old bastard is particularly unpleasant I 'll be able to reflect on how bad he 'll feel when he 's unmasked . |
| 14 | To get the most out of TV and radio appearances it is sensible to inform other departments in your organisation who can capitalise on it that the piece will be appearing . |
| 15 | You may choke on it but it screams ‘ success ’ to the multinationals . |
| 16 | ‘ I do n't know why we keep coming here , ’ says an older clown on the bus shuttling us to the big top , ‘ all it does is rain on us and blow us about . ’ |
| 17 | Sarella felt his hand tighten on hers and she leaned against him to reassure him . |
| 18 | Er I 'm not sure actually whether they would appear on them or not , I have n't seen the new statistics so I do n't know . |
| 19 | They may suck on it until it dissolves sufficiently to swallow rather than chew it and so meal-times take a very long time . |
| 20 | I mean it could be nothing may happen at all may descend on us and everybody 's and we 've run out of money . |
| 21 | I 'll work on him and try to bring him round . |
| 22 | The ambitious plans drawn up by Middlesbrough council will be passed to various departments which will work on them and report back in a year 's time . |
| 23 | Mandru did not insist on it because he was a sensualist . |
| 24 | I think we should vote on it and ask Joe 's opinion too . ’ |
| 25 | Trekky Doors — Do n't step on 'em while they 're open , or you 'll fall . |
| 26 | But when you keep the big names supplied with a particular kind of amusement you can always depend on it that the police are found to be in the wrong , or that they are framing an innocent man , or that the children in question are his nieces . |
| 27 | And when we calculate these other points they should fit on it as well . |
| 28 | We can lean on them because of our size . ’ |
| 29 | The wheelchair provides the ideal type of support , as the patient can not lean on it as he would on a walking frame , because the chair would tip up . |
| 30 | Defeated in his climb , he had been descending , heading for the window , hoping he could hammer on it and attract someone 's attention , but ice and spindrift made it impossible to see where he was going ; and now he was trapped . |