Example sentences of "on [pers pn] [conj] [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They ganged up on me and nicked my harmonica . |
| 2 | Underhill then turned on me and bit me on the back of the hand . |
| 3 | We all four ducked , there was a vivid white flash , the road on which I was crouching split in several directions , deep black crevices , then stuff came down on me and numbed my back and head . |
| 4 | But at the funeral , in a fit of hysteria , she turned on me and blamed me for causing her father 's death . |
| 5 | Instead of getting someone to calm me down and talk to me , a whole bunch of them came and jumped on me and rushed me down to the block and left me there . |
| 6 | Finally , J. got tired of my everlasting complaints , took pity on me and made me a small electric fire . |
| 7 | He relaxed his death-hold on me and made me sit down with him on a convenient bench . |
| 8 | The residents , a kind couple , took compassion on me and provided my needs , refusing payment . |
| 9 | So after they had fasted and prayed , they placed their hands on them and sent them off . |
| 10 | And they spat on him , and took the reed and began to beat him on the head , and after they had mocked him they took his robe off and put his garments on them and led him away to be , to crucify him . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | But they did not maintain an image ; or at least , not until an outsider pressed them , assembled one from what he thought were the parts , tried it out on them and modified it to accommodate their comments and additional information . |
| 13 | He took them off , breathed on them and polished them clean with his handkerchief , which was now very dirty . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Shildon closed in on them and mentioned he had arrived late because Wickham had wanted to question him . |
| 16 | She had modelled her speech on his and asked him to correct her if she said something wrong . |
| 17 | You got fed regularly and women waited on you and asked you how you felt . |
| 18 | I put a lead on her and walked her home . |
| 19 | He lay down on her and penetrated her again so that she gave a cry of relief . |
| 20 | ‘ I can only imagine someone has jumped out on her and dragged her away for some reason . |
| 21 | He may have taken pity on her and bought her a drink , at the same time buying a little companionship for himself , easing the ache of his loneliness . |
| 22 | ‘ She had been brought out to Romiley in a car by two men who had poured petrol on her and set her alight . ’ |
| 23 | And he bore down on her and pinched them , smelling of horse-sweat and sherry . |
| 24 | At times my sleepy little daughter was brought down from the nursery and stood on a stool while John draped pieces of material on her and showed me how he wanted the costume move and flow , and so help to illustrate what he wanted to express and convey to an audience . |
| 25 | Later Lisa was to wonder at the power of the sensations that swept in on her and possessed her at that moment . |
| 26 | And when the woman in the top bunk threw up again and the sour vomit splashed down on her and soaked her skirt , it was the last straw . |
| 27 | I met her once on one of my off-duty bookshop prowls , took pity on her and gave her lunch . |
| 28 | Before she could reply , before she could sort out the details , even , he launched himself on her and stopped her mouth with his . |
| 29 | The old woman lay in her hammock , sleeping ; it was a time when she had taken a heavy dose , and he was able to lead Ariel out and let her walk before him , now and then turning to make sure he was not about to do something to her , put a halter on her or hit her , and she made for the fence and pointed over it and asked him with her hands and eyes if she could go there , beyond the stockade , into the receding forest , where the bromeliads pushed out their stiff blades , and the monkeys nibbled at mango fruits and threw them down when they were unripe with tiny rows of toothmarks like some sharp-fanged fairy child 's , where the birds of many colours screeched . |
| 30 | He 'd remember me , too , because he would have wondered what percentage I had on him that entitled me to come down from her apartment in the early morning . |