Example sentences of "on you " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is possible , though , that in the early stages of training you may feel that all your creative skill is being stripped from you , and that the whole system is ganging up on you . |
| 2 | It 's certainly true that the pressure on you builds up as the terms go on — but training is not designed to destroy you , but to challenge you . |
| 3 | I have decided , however , in the interests of posterity , to cut nothing , though I may take the liberty of annotating the text here and there , putting some of the facts straight and referring the reader to related documents , such as interviews you once gave or books and articles on you which have since appeared . |
| 4 | She says she 's called on you already and she 's helping you with your enquiries . |
| 5 | ‘ Maybe he 's keeping an eye on you . ’ |
| 6 | She said it was tragic because of Kezia , and the way she went on you 'd have thought it was all my fault . |
| 7 | ‘ You do n't have to worry about me becoming a burden on you , you know . |
| 8 | Something like that could easily backfire on you if you 're not careful . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I do n't want to impose on you people , I … ’ |
| 10 | I 'm sorry to spring it on you like this but I did n't want to get your hopes up . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ We 'd expect you to stay a couple of years , but obviously there 's going to be no pressure on you to move on at the end of that period . |
| 12 | Curiously enough , these charming blooms turn to face and follow the sun as it progresses across the sky , a phenomenon you will find frustrating if you have planted it in a north-facing border , since they will invariably turn their backs on you . |
| 13 | This depends entirely on you and your children and there is no simple answer . |
| 14 | How much you take of each depends on you , for no two people are the same . |
| 15 | Jump on you ? ’ |
| 16 | Wasted on you of course . ’ |
| 17 | It goes without saying that you must be quick , otherwise the opponent can turn the tables on you . |
| 18 | ‘ Let them put it on you and you are done for at last — food for the cannons , and the swamp-fever , and the hulks . |
| 19 | Something about Englishness and its effect on you ? |
| 20 | If it stimulates you to dissent , it is precisely because it is so closely pondered in its own terms and it never , throughout its four hours , loosens its grip on you . |
| 21 | Trellis is a useful compromise and you can always pretend it was forced on you by the speed of growth of your climbing rose . |
| 22 | I was talking to Al Davis ( the team 's owner ) and he said , ‘ There 's no pressure on you to do anything . ’ |
| 23 | Sir : Shame on you , Ngaio Crequer , for deserting the cause of educational reform ( 5 October ) . |
| 24 | How will you stop Rickey Henderson stealing bases on you the way he did against Toronto , Roger Craig , the Giants ' manager , is constantly asked . |
| 25 | We called on you earlier tonight , did n't we ? |
| 26 | Compare the description of the agony in In the Same boat ( a story the end of which is truer to the experience than i– the end of The Brushwood Boy ) : ‘ Suppose you were a violin string — vibrating — and someone put his finger on you ’ with the image of the ‘ banjo string drawn tight ’ for the breaking wave in The finest Story in the World . |
| 27 | ‘ I 'm no musician , but suppose you were a violin-string — vibrating — and some one put his finger on you ? |
| 28 | At that age everybody is down on you . |
| 29 | ‘ You had a great head on you the way you thought the plan through from beginning to end . |
| 30 | ‘ I had the stopwatch on you from behind one of the windows . |