Example sentences of "on [pron] [conj] [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You can just jump down on everyone and turn them into worms , ’ the imp added encouragingly , ignoring his last remark . |
| 2 | Underhill then turned on me and bit me on the back of the hand . |
| 3 | But at the funeral , in a fit of hysteria , she turned on me and blamed me for causing her father 's death . |
| 4 | And his mercy is on them that fear him from generation to generation . |
| 5 | Send me letters here still and I shall ask my new friend Mr ( wall-eyed ) Wood ( prop. ) to sit on them or speed them to another valley by pigeon post . |
| 6 | Canvassers for the main parties report ‘ white-hot indifference ’ mingled with ‘ raging boredom ’ as householders slam their doors on them or attack them with peashooters and water pistols from upper windows with a degree of commitment to the democratic process which experienced observers described as ‘ unprecedented ’ and ‘ profoundly conducive to thought ’ . |
| 7 | I refused to let the nurse wield her scissors on them and put myself through gyrations of a one-legged contortionist to get them off whole . |
| 8 | In one of his operations he had British Intelligence print hundreds of thousands of fake stamps with a picture of Himmler on them and distributed them through Switzerland into Germany . |
| 9 | She wanted only to rid herself of the blocks Ewan had inflicted on her and lose herself in a new future . |
| 10 | She would make a dash for it and be in the garden before anyone had a chance to walk in on her and take her by surprise . |
| 11 | Later Lisa was to wonder at the power of the sensations that swept in on her and possessed her at that moment . |
| 12 | Rosa said , ‘ It 's nothing , ’ and picked up the laundry and set off again.Her legs moved , her feet went forward one behind the other , but she felt winter come down on her and numb her to the bone . |
| 13 | Then , when his owner wanted to catch him she would grab the rope which was trailing on the ground , and take possession of his head before he managed to rear up on her or kick her with his hind legs . |
| 14 | The lion immediately jumps on him and forces him to the ground . |
| 15 | The robot put Buff to sleep , then put the spacesuit on him and carried him to the spaceship . |
| 16 | The gang pounced on him and knocked him to the ground — but he curled up into a ball to save himself as punches and kicks rained down . |
| 17 | As a result her handsome husband shrank into a shrivelled old man until he was so deformed the gods took pity on him and turned him into a cicada — one of the first creatures to excitedly greet the dawn on a warm summer 's day . |
| 18 | In a flash Perdita closed on him and bashed him across the knuckles with her stick . |
| 19 | I 've seen the man 's face actually resting on the foot of the horse ; but never at any time the horse stand on him , tramp on him or damage him in any way . |
| 20 | She did n't want to think about Timothy Gedge , to dwell on him or to consider him in any way whatsoever . |
| 21 | The HMI document The Curriculum from 5 to 16 suggests that ‘ all that pupils learn should be practical , and therefore relevant , in ways which enable them to build on it or use it for their own purposes in everyday life ’ . |
| 22 | An adult , by itself , will be hard-pressed to repel a determined attack on its young , but in a massed colony , outraged parents join together and surround an intruder in a cloud , shrieking angrily , diving on it and harrying it in a continuous attack . |
| 23 | Young children often play with just one block at a time ; they may stand on it , sit on it and use it in their imaginative play as a parcel , steering wheel or tool . |
| 24 | But one tried to put a good face on it and keep them to oneself . |
| 25 | I could roll this through the mud , spit on it and put it through dog 's dirtisisism and most people would still say yes please . |
| 26 | He took out the torn fragment with ‘ BORVEL NEM AKT printed on it and showed it to Vic . |
| 27 | Luckily his jacket had caught on it and saved him from falling . |
| 28 | She hid the cutting in the cocktail cabinet in the prop-room — if she took it home Uncle Vernon might get his hands on it and embarrass her by reading it out to the commercial travellers . |
| 29 | Try to get a grip on yourself and tell me about it . ’ |
| 30 | Occupied by its clichés , its principles , and its strategies , the sick mind of the central colourless figure unwittingly deploys subversive discursive counter-strategies that turn these ‘ conventional weapons ’ back on themselves and expose them for what they are . |