Example sentences of "on [pers pn] [coord] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He never played any more tricks on me but in other ways he progressed into more serious misdemeanours . |
| 2 | And he turned his back both on me and on his not-to-be-remembered past . |
| 3 | ‘ It 's put tremendous pressure on me and on my family , ’ he said . |
| 4 | Yes , Claire walked out on me and on our marriage . |
| 5 | We have no statistics to tell us how many children are involved , how long they spend in any one of these stages of transition , nor do we know what effect these experiences have on them or on their relationships with natural or step-parents . |
| 6 | Lumps of turf thumped down on them and into the fire . |
| 7 | The cosy solution of bourgeois educational success in which the sole objective was not to be a loser , was abruptly shattered by the realisation that the majority of men and women were , like his father , losers , and that to turn one 's back on them and on his origins in a strategy of personal self-survival , was an inadequate response . |
| 8 | The ecological model starts from the position that the growth and development of children can be understood only in relation to the nature of their interactions with the various environments which impinge on them and with which they are constantly interacting . |
| 9 | We got the Gilbey bar but I no the answer to that question would be if any company or org organisation was prepared or wished to talk about funding the theatre in any way and I think were 'd be more than welcome to sit down with and talk them and say well how would you perceive that which way would you like to go about it how can we assist that and I think we 're be open to suggestions from them how they see it I mean you know it could be seats it could be programmes it could be any any arrange of things that we 'd certainly welcome who approach us from companies but we I think we are pro-active in sense that we do n't wait for that to happen we actually go out but was said early I think given the recession it has been difficult lately to actually go out to companies and say I mean sure companies like the Harlow Council find it extremely finance the finances extremely difficult on them and with the recession it 's really difficult for them to actually find funding and I know lot 's of companies who actually cutting back on it certain areas I think funding of oth outside organisations will be one of the areas they 'll be cutting back on . |
| 10 | They accomplish this task by listening to papers delivered on them and by attending ‘ pray-ins ’ in which they pray to the Implied Reader . |
| 11 | To die for your lord was noble , to betray or forsake him was base , while to outlive him in battle brought disgrace , not only on you but on your kin . |
| 12 | ‘ If you do not , the shame will be not just on you but on your father 's house . |
| 13 | What they were doing might concern her , probably did concern her , but the decision , whatever it was , was theirs not hers ; whereas waiting here , feeling the coolness beneath her hands and the softness of the April sun about her face , and being content to feel these delightful sensations flowing through her and to want nothing more — that was something that depended on her and on no on else . |
| 14 | Calum Callan , 24 , a close friend of Paul , said : ‘ He seemed very keen on her and in his own words said she was angelic . |
| 15 | The captain may put on a very good act , convincing not just himself but even some of the passengers ; though whether their floating world will come through depends not on him but on the mad winds and sullen tides , the icebergs and the sudden crusts of reef . |
| 16 | Seek the Lord while he may be found , call upon him while he is near , let the wicked forsake his way and the unrighteous man is thoughts and let them return to the Lord , for what 's gon na happen , for he will of compassion on him and to our God for he will abundantly pardon those words were very quoted from Acts , chapter sixteen , when that Philippine jailer said Lord what must I do , sir what must I do to be saved and there Paul timac believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved this is God 's way by repentance in faith that 's presented in Jesus , he is the only saviour , not your works , not my works , not our good deeds , not our religious observances , he is the only saviour , did he not say himself I am the way the truth and the life , nobody comes to the father but by me . |
| 17 | He started up at my scream and I saw the dark blood on him and on me . |
| 18 | On him and on Astorre had rested the burden of maintaining the guns , for the noise of the cannonade was vital to their stratagem . |
| 19 | The omission is significant : the danger is perceived as entirely pertaining to religious believers , and illustrates very well the hold which a secular view has on him and on the educational world in Britain and in the United States . |
| 20 | But he warned : ‘ Nigel has already been compared to Kenny Dalglish and I think that 's a bit unfair on him and on the fans . |
| 21 | Despite his pride and his knowledge of her prejudice against him , he takes the risk of declaring his affection and allows Eliza to pour scorn on him and on any idea of love between them . |
| 22 | Stephen refers to a crime being excusable if the defendant can show as one of the requisites that what was done was done to avoid a consequence which could not otherwise have been avoided , and which , if not done , would have inflicted harm on him or on others he was bound to protect . |
| 23 | For front projection , the projector is still threaded up reversing left and right , as in rear projection ( it is put in the ‘ wrong ’ way round in order to come out correct in the final composite ) ; but instead of being behind a translucent screen it s in front of , and to one side of , a glass beaded screen which reflects nearly 100 per cent of the light falling on it but on y in the direction from which it came Though the projector is at 90° to the camera-screen axis and its beam is therefore initially parallel to the plane of the screen , passing in front of the actors in the foreground this beam is deflected by a half-silvered mirror at an angle of 45° to the beam This semi-transparent mirror is coated at the front ( unlike normal mirrors , coated behind the glass ) with a very thin layer of aluminium — silver tarnishes too easily Alternatively , the layer of aluminium may be spattered on , so that tiny reflective spots of metal are interspersed with tiny transparent gaps So , although it reflects the beam , the camera can photograph both the action and the reflection from the screen through the mirror Though the mirror reflects the still or moving image from the projector on to the actors and any foreground props or sets as well as on to the screen , the level of illumination of the image is much less than that on the actors , so the camera records only that part of the image reflected from the screen . |
| 24 | Yet according to classical concepts no such equilibrium is possible , since the black hole would absorb any thermal radiation that fell on it but by definition would not be able to emit anything in return . |
| 25 | On the stable block , in which nothing had ever been stabled in Adam 's memory , was a little tower with a running fox weathervane on it and below the small pitched roof a blue clock with hands of gold . |
| 26 | And they said so at the er at the district council , went up to district and I asked for the support of the district council and er probably John immediately said , you have the full support of the district council for it he says and I 'll ensure that you get support with the result I also received four posters direct from the Edinburgh District Council with John photograph on it and with the caption st stating every old age pensioner should be signing here . |
| 27 | Well erm it was a sticky bus you know , er a field in Winter , it was just er bare soil , there was n no no grass on it and with the cart trudging back and forth , getting towards er a gateway , you would up to your knees in mud you know . |
| 28 | Well then if you put a lot of bark on it and with vegetables , so they want fertilizer |
| 29 | But how many other bands release a third single from an album with three new songs on it and at least one of which is good enough to be an A-side ? |
| 30 | The thought patterns allow me to erm put down what I wanted to talk about , expand on it and at the same time break it down into areas and on the other and spend some time on each area . |