Example sentences of "[Wh adv] he [verb] [adv] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Lepine would appear to have done : the Lortie to whom he referred was the Canadian Armed Forces Corporal Dennis Lortie , who had killed three and wounded fourteen when he burst in on the Quebec National Assembly with a machine gun five years earlier . |
| 2 | He was lord mayor in 1570–1 , when he was knighted , and again in 1591 , when he stepped in on the death of a mayor in mid-term . |
| 3 | Hugues Joffre , who joined Christie 's at the beginning of the year after serving out the six months ' notice enforced by Sotheby 's when he resigned unexpectedly on the eve of last summer 's sales , made his first public appearance in King Street , hovering around the telephone bank but participating only occasionally in the afternoon 's business . |
| 4 | Cawson himself acknowledges the significance of this in his discussion of ‘ microcorporatism ’ , that is the detailed bargaining of the state with individual enterprises over investment and other matters , sometimes with the involvement of trade unions ( see Cawson ( 1986 , pp. 118–21 ) where he focuses particularly on the experiences of the GLC and the Greater London Enterprise Board ) . |
| 5 | At the other end of North Africa , on 8 November , Anglo-American forces had landed in Algeria , and Rommel had retreated right back to the Agheila position , where he dug in on the defensive . |
| 6 | ‘ Apparently you ca n't miss , but only Brian Harley has got one so far , and this is mainly why he cleaned up on the Safari circuit . |