Example sentences of "he on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His brother Gavin frets him , and he has a longing for Gavin 's wife , together with a more urgent one for a teacher at the school , Alison Houston , who could be felt to lead him on a bit but does n't want to have a ‘ relationship ’ with him . |
| 2 | The narrative maximizes Stepan 's vulnerability , perching him on a platform amid the malcontents and troublemakers and the much larger number of those humble , obscure people who are enduring more or less passively the chaos of the fête . |
| 3 | Churchill demanded that all ideas be submitted to him on a half-sheet of paper ; he was frequently insensitive , a bad judge of character , and a sucker for flamboyant charlatans ; intensely loyal , he demanded uncritical loyalty in return . |
| 4 | Police were sent to arrest him on a charge of attempted murder , but in the ensuing melee the Rajah was shot dead . |
| 5 | ‘ Changed days , Piper ! ’ remarked Jimmy , as I sat down beside him on a bale of hay . |
| 6 | After four years in the explosives division , his management potential had been spotted and moves were made to launch him on a management development programme of rotation to broaden his experience . |
| 7 | Her father was a high official and had taken her with him on a trip to London and she had returned with her hair in orange stripes . |
| 8 | ‘ Take him on a tourist bus , ’ he said . |
| 9 | The answer is probably to run him on a left hand track where such antics would not cost him so much ground . |
| 10 | Dickie does not believe in clover , or mowers , and he would not recognize ‘ Chewing 's Fescue ’ if you served it to him on a bed of rice . |
| 11 | ‘ I told you you should have had him on a lead , ’ said Philip . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'll take him on a picnic , ’ she said . |
| 13 | If there 's no room on your mantelpiece , could you not put him on a stick for a scarecrow ? |
| 14 | It was a special gift from a famous actor in California who had tried to persuade Sweetheart to join him on a luxury tour of Europe . |
| 15 | Mr Wendt 's income puts him on a par with Peter Wood , founder of the Royal Bank of Scotland 's Direct Line insurance company who was paid £1.84m last year , but leaves him well ahead of other leading company chairmen . |
| 16 | Legal sources said an underground cell was being prepared for him on a maximum security row at the federal penitentiary in Marion , Illinois , America 's most chilling jail . |
| 17 | His infuriated wife , who had learned little of him since his departure , and had in all probability imagined him on a chain gang in some inhospitable region , had since learned that her husband was enjoying a rich existence with the high rollers of Sydney . |
| 18 | Some treated Charles Manson as a hero , and the underground newspaper , the Los Angeles Free Press allowed Manson to write a column for them while he was in jail ; another , called Tuesday 's Child depicted him on a cross . |
| 19 | It suddenly crossed my mind that perhaps he thought I had come to see him on a professional level , that I was in need of spiritual help or whatever . |
| 20 | As Fielding jokes : ‘ Margaret Thatcher could put him on a pedestal as a young fucking Tory ! ’ |
| 21 | His relations in the St. Cleer area noticed the name of their now famous relation and invited him on a visit . |
| 22 | If a member crossed him on a policy issue , as Callaghan did on trade-union reform in the spring of 1969 , he would be expelled , even if , like Callaghan as Home Secretary , he was a pillar of the administration . |
| 23 | After all , I had ‘ covered ’ the Boys ' Parliament sessions and other church activities for him on a free lance basis , and I was sure he knew I was determined to take up journalism as a full-time and life-long career . |
| 24 | The law of Docherty 's life has taken him on a rollercoaster through football management . |
| 25 | The sergeant followed him in and found him smoking and put him on a discipline charge — idling his time . |
| 26 | He did him on a discipline charge and he was sacked . |
| 27 | I threatened to put him on a discipline charge because whenever the drunks were turning out , you 'd find him in the station writing some trivial bike without a light . |
| 28 | ‘ Would n't want to meet him on a dark night , ’ breathed Arthur , trying to make light of the incident . |
| 29 | Despite some misgivings , he persuaded Tom Gray to accompany him on a wander to a nearby burial ground , Lying on top of a heap of bones , ‘ almost asking to be taken , was a femur . |
| 30 | I know him , I have even protected him on a number of occasions against scurrilous attacks by fellow priests . ’ |