Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] on he [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mattox 's campaign presented her silence on this subject as an expression of guilt , although the drugs issue backfired on him in the final days of the campaign when witnesses claimed to have seen him smoking marijuana in the early 1970s , a claim which he vehemently denied . |
| 2 | Cowards — preferring to spy on him from the shadows and whisper lies . |
| 3 | We had indeed , and Denis was in a filthy mood because his motorbike had died on him on the way into Cambridge and he had had to push it five miles back — and he had been taking his temper out on me ever since lunchtime . |
| 4 | ‘ I really am sorry , ’ he repeated and wondered why it was that these lunches , designed as an escape from responsibility , had begun to weigh on him with the weariness of marriage itself . |
| 5 | She could not believe she had rounded on him in the way she had . |
| 6 | At that lunch in the Oxford and Cambridge he was in the sombre mood that had descended on him with the signing of the Munich Agreement . |