Example sentences of "[noun] on [pron] he could [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were two bases on which he could have been convicted , either that the jury accepted that he had fetched the knife from his home , or , alternatively , that he had obtained the knife during the struggle but that they were satisfied that the essentials of self-defence were not made out . |
| 2 | Sidonius , like the Late Antique authors on whom he modelled himself , had written such letters to ensure the existence of a pool of friends on whom he could count in times of need . |
| 3 | Then , before Spain , Niki managed to overturn a tractor on himself He could have been killed ; he escaped with cracked ribs and bad bruising . |
| 4 | Heard that he had a walkie-talkie radio on which he could give the engineer instructions to slow down further , and to stop . |
| 5 | He knew that he still had certain assets on which he could raise cash . |
| 6 | The king never turned up and the laird was left with paths on which he could hold a formula one race . |