Example sentences of "on [pron] by [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He took vulgar public revenge on me by mocking in the pages of Madame Bovary a seal I had once given him as a token of love . |
| 2 | I got 162 not out but Norman Doggart did the dirty on me by getting 173 . |
| 3 | Oh he and coming up that passage , run and jump right up on me by getting up my shirt . |
| 4 | From this , Combsburgh men of that generation got a bad name for sheep stealing and cattle lifting and men from the next parish retaliated on them by nicknaming them Baa-Lambs . ’ |
| 5 | She told me that if I left Roy and went home she would forgive me having Carla and everything … forgive me bringing shame on them by marrying a hoodlum . |
| 6 | ‘ I 've had to make amazing demands on them by asking them to take time off work . |
| 7 | Labour showed some chagrin that the Tories had stolen a march on them by ending conscription , but even Aneurin Bevan , the shadow Foreign Secretary and a unilateralist at heart , accepted the need for the British nuclear deterrent , making his famous remark that to abandon it would ‘ send a British Foreign Secretary , whoever he may be , naked to the conference table ’ . |
| 8 | It is impractical to expect any party to draw trouble on himself by notifying the other of a potential claim . |
| 9 | That is the nature of the self-punishment which Britain inflicted on itself by maintaining in its law the assertion that citizens of other countries , wholly independent and acknowledging a different head of state , were nevertheless in every respect members of the single category of ‘ British subjects ’ , possessing within the United Kingdom the rights that attach to that category . |
| 10 | Then blows the gaff on herself by driving straight past Riva 's house . |
| 11 | THE lover of Britain 's famous agony aunt , Marje Proops , was secretly cheating on her by living with another woman . |
| 12 | And er they thought Thursday they 'd have to do an operation on her by taking a piece of bone from her hip , |
| 13 | The 1976 act spoke of a person who died from ‘ personal injuries sustained by him ’ and Lord McCluskey said : ‘ In my view it is clear that the whole phrase is perfectly apt to include injuries inflicted to the person of a child immediately before his birth and continuing to have their effects on him by impairing his physical condition at and after the time of his birth . |
| 14 | One of my former patients , a respected scientist who had worked for many years in the field of cancer research , still kept the inferior Inner Face inflicted on him by demanding parents and a series of thoughtless teachers . |
| 15 | And what a trick Fate had played on him by putting the very qualities he had wanted to see in that son in a daughter . |
| 16 | Where a company is registered in Scotland a summons may be served on it by leaving it at , or by sending it by post to , its principal place of business in England or Wales addressed to the manager or head officer and by further posting a copy to the registered office ( s 725(2) and ( 3 ) Companies Act 1985 ) . |
| 17 | If what we look like can influence how we feel about ourselves and influence other people 's attitudes , then let us cash in on it by taking an interest in appearance . |
| 18 | It was now that the Greeks ( illiterate for several centuries , since the clumsy syllabary evolved in the later Bronze Age had died with the social system it served ) borrowed the suppler consonantal alphabet developed by the Phoenicians and improved on it by using some of the symbols for vowels . |
| 19 | Although Britain still regards this as an embarrassment , it is putting a brave face on it by claiming that most Irish-Americans have a distorted , nationalistic view of the conflict and that such a mission might go part of the way to dispelling it . |
| 20 | It can take months for the violence to subside , they take it out on themselves by punching the walls or scratching their wrists . |
| 21 | I 'm not going to bring the whole world down on us by telling my mother and father that I feel like a big spancelled goat going to college and having to come back here every night as if I were some kind of simpleton . |
| 22 | For a moment I wondered if I 'd brought the bad luck down on us by pretending the planetaries were n't working , at the Vadinamian Valve . |
| 23 | People in Lebanon told me : ‘ The Israelis failed to stifle the uprising in the occupied territories , so they take it out on us by threatening to invade Lebanon again . ’ |
| 24 | If we come into line with Europe , le Europe will soon be putting pressure on us by having a common policy and the policy to save fossil er burning of fossil fuels is international . |