Example sentences of "on me " in BNC.

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1 Why do you look on me ?
2 Had to satisfy that desire , he wrote , yet find a way of doing so that would not have that physical effect on me .
3 ‘ I pay cash on delivery for fish , which the fishermen like , so they always call on me first and we get super turbot , mussels , scallops , sole and plaice here . ’
4 ‘ Everything depends on me , ’ Kezia said , and I nearly laughed out loud .
5 However , as a corollary to this , my increasingly strident expressions of discontent put considerable pressure on me to live up to my rhetoric .
6 Stripped of his power to inflict harm on me , he seemed terribly ordinary .
7 Look , I 've brought you some things so you can have a cuppa on me .
8 Why pick on me ? ’
9 An idea suddenly dawned on me .
10 If you have already thought up a sensible solution to my problems , that puts you one up on me as I was then , because I was completely flummoxed by the whole thing .
11 I said , and looking her straight in the eye , I asked : ‘ Why is everybody picking on me ?
12 ‘ It 's catching up on me . ’
13 One of my colleagues , no doubt swayed by the heat of the discussion , turned on me sitting in my short-sleeved uniform shirt , and rebuked me with the warning that ‘ in my force , you 'd be disciplined for mutilating police property …
14 Do n't waste it all on me . ’
15 ‘ You choose , ’ said Jamie , ‘ just do n't start on me ! ’
16 But why pick on me ?
17 The event had absolutely no emotional or intellectual effect on me .
18 By now they too knew they could call on me .
19 People like Niall , like Michael Morrissey , who do know what it is like to be poor and shat on , the bottom of the whole U.K. heap , they know I 'm nothing when they set eyes on me .
20 He started up at my scream and I saw the dark blood on him and on me .
21 Maybe a germ slipped out of his prick and landed on me .
22 He is not to walk out on me before I run out of steam .
23 The piece has grown on me , though I do wonder if there is any prejudice towards marquetry made of many pieces of veneer
24 He even jumped on me when asked to pose for a photo and , towering above me with his paws on my shoulders , gave me the most enormous , slobbering lick imaginable .
25 ‘ I get this image foisted on me — the musical chameleon , changing my style all the time .
26 Gradually it began to dawn on me that while in the celluloid world all things were possible , in the other world it was quite a different story .
27 And I 've come back years later and it 's had the same effect on me . ’
28 My nightmares returned at a time when everything was crowding in on me and I could n't cope .
29 I do n't think I would ever do such a thing again , but when the depression settles on me I 'm very vulnerable , and if I went to see a film and it had a drowning sequence in it , or swirling water , then you just ca n't tell .
30 The biggest impact Bowie had on me was with his haircut .
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