Example sentences of "on [pron] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At dinner a military band played ; the governor 's wife was ‘ a very agreeable woman , with an uncommonly mild and sweet tone of voice ’ , and the governor told Johnson and Boswell that ‘ the Arabs could live for five days without victuals , and subsist for three weeks on nothing else but the blood of their camels , who could lose so much of it as would suffice for that time , without being exhausted . ’ |
| 2 | They knew now that it was on these and on nothing else that their lives depended , and they were not going to waste anything they possessed between them . |
| 3 | Oh , just you try forcing yourself on me again and your world will explode . |
| 4 | ‘ You ever pull that on me again and I 'll fucking kill you . ’ |
| 5 | And then I began to become very worried about it and it just happened by chance that one Friday morning I heard a programme on Radio Brighton , and it was Doctor Wisbey speaking about dyslexia , and it dawned on me immediately that my son was dyslexia . |
| 6 | I 'm a loyal person , though , and he can rely on me even if he has hurt my feelings . |
| 7 | In the second chapter of Philippians , a little bit before where we read , Paul 's describing the seriousness of the illness of his friend and companion , Ep Aproditus And even although he had written that the thought of his own death caused him no qualms whatever , when he was writing about his friend , Aproditus being at the point of death , he said , But God had mercy on him and not only upon him but on me also lest I should have sorrow on sorrow . |
| 8 | At least the manager did n't pounce on me just because I shut my eyes for a few moments . ’ |
| 9 | Do you think you can vent your temper on me just as you please ? |
| 10 | Yes er actually the lady dropped in on me yesterday so I |
| 11 | It made as little impression on me then as it does now . ’ |
| 12 | It 's just dawning on me now that I 'm not rea I mean you know having had a conversation , proper conversation with my dad this weekend just me |
| 13 | tape on the it went and did it again on me now and it 's well and truly gone I 'll have to buy another one . |
| 14 | Come on car , do n't start playing on me now when I want to get home . |
| 15 | Do n't stop playing on me now when I get home for a cup of tea ! |
| 16 | ‘ And keep an eye on me so that I wo n't escape , ’ she bit out before biting into her toast . |
| 17 | And it brought home to me with a rush something which had been slowly dawning on me ever since I joined the Air Force ; that I had been spoiled for quite a long time now . |
| 18 | Nellie rounded on me angrily and asked me why I wanted to know . |
| 19 | The natives were treacherous people , as everyone knew , ungodly and faithless , and their early shows of friendship were nothing but a ruse to lull the pioneers into a false feeling of security , so that they could ensnare them in their false enchantments , pounce on them unawares and kill them while they slept . |
| 20 | A confidential Ministry of Information report , written in April 1968 , revealed that the two papers owed Sh.900,000/ — to the printers , who threatened to discontinue working on them altogether unless this amount were paid and an assurance received from the Treasury that printing costs for the rest of the financial year would be met . |
| 21 | showed mercy on them even though they did not show mercy on him . |
| 22 | Timothy Gedge , with his hollow cheeks and his gawkiness , had picked on them even though he did n't know them , even though they 'd done him no harm . |
| 23 | You get on them slowly and they register one weight ; if you jump on them with gusto they register something quite different . |
| 24 | Linda Duff of The Star says afterwards , ‘ I 've got a couple of stories on them anyway and , with another tabloid present , I was n't about to give them away … ‘ |
| 25 | But the existence of these functions does not mean that the towns depended on them exclusively and it did not prevent them from acquiring others from the normal expected range . |
| 26 | And even if it were possible , making debtors pay 50p to prove that they had paid off their debts seems rather harshly discouraging for them — it would virtually boil down to imposing a line on them not because they had been debtors but because they had now paid their debts in full . |
| 27 | At first interview they had said that they worried about Mrs White , especially when they could not get over to see her , and that it was a bit of a strain on them both because neither of them was ‘ in perfect health ’ . |
| 28 | This gets you to concentrate on them rather than yourself and you 'll discover that even the most famous people value your compliments . |
| 29 | It was felt that the main objective of the Tory government has been to discipline the unemployed and to lay the blame for their unemployment on them rather than on government economic policy . |
| 30 | But it is easier to show that the Aquitanians ' identity as a people was imposed on them rather than felt by them in Carolingian times . |