Example sentences of "[noun sg] he [verb] on [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ben , watching him , saw once again how the light seemed trapped by the matt black surface of the heavy iron ring he wore on the index finger of his right hand . |
| 2 | The only ingredient he recognized on the prescription was caffeine . |
| 3 | Taking the carrier bag from the back seat he slipped on the mask . |
| 4 | Some novelist went up to a critic last night and thanked him for a review he wrote on a novel of his in about the year 1900 and congratulated him because he got it right . |
| 5 | Arieti , an expert on both creativity and schizophrenia — and therefore the most qualified among these contemporary psychiatric writers to comment — is equally disappointing in the light he throws on the issue . |
| 6 | Its members saw it as further evidence of his obsession for being Patrick 's Sacred Keeper , the title of the biography he wrote on the poet in 1979 . |
| 7 | Skipper , Derek Hall got them going with his first ever goal for the club , so no wonder he went on a victory run . |
| 8 | Chairman of the FUW 's farm tourism committee he serves on the steering group of Menter Powys and is vice-chairman of Food From Britain 's joint venture steering group for sheep which is currently investigating prospects for marketing quality Welsh lamb . |
| 9 | The welcome he received on the factory tour obviously boded well for the by-election as ten days later both candidates were elected . |
| 10 | He set off with rucksack and typewriter on a round-the-world trip , but only got as far as New Orleans , where , ever the hopeless romantic , he fell in love with a girl he met on a park bench . |
| 11 | I would not expect an angler to hit , or even see , every bite he has on a swing-tip the first time he uses one . |
| 12 | A French tourist visiting England Locke 's case seems to be that the moment he steps on the territory of England he has tacitly agreed erm to obey the laws and in return erm of course he receives the protection of those laws . |
| 13 | So when he heard you were in town he hit on a plan to get rid of both of you . |
| 14 | Satisfied that it would bring them exactly down to the point he wanted on the starboard side of Lord Jim , he asked — " How do you feel about your husband ? " |
| 15 | In a lecture he delivered on the fringe of last year 's Conservative Party conference , Mr Lawson said : ‘ While economic failure will most certainly drive a government out of office , economic success alone will not ensure that it retains office . ’ |
| 16 | That very same evening he appeared on the bandstand in Woodford Square and gave his first speech under the auspices of the P.E.M. The speech turned out to be nothing less than a vitriolic attack on the Commission , which he portrayed as an organisation run by ‘ hide- bound conservatives in the British Colonial service ’ . |
| 17 | In his room he pulled on a dressing-gown and sat down and waited . |
| 18 | In the Federal Court in Sydney yesterday , a banking syndicate headed by HongkongBank Australia applied for a trustee to be appointed after Mr Bond , 53 , failed to repay about £110 million arising from a personal guarantee he gave on a loan to his former Greenvale nickel project . |
| 19 | In the House the following day he seized on the excuse that Attlee had impugned the Prime Minister 's honour and called off his revolt . |
| 20 | But nothing could have prepared Gould for the transformation he witnessed on the journey back to Yarrundi from Maitland . |
| 21 | But he does practice a kind of English methodism , an immersion into character he learned on the job from Mike Leigh and Alan Clarke . |
| 22 | Trying to repair the damage done to McKendrick 's positive face , he asks to be excused for his own inadequacies : Anderson 's upholding of the modesty maxim is augmented by the emphasis he puts on the sincerity of his apology ( the tonic syllable in the first sentence falling on " am " ) , stressing that he is fulfilling the felicity conditions ( Searle : 1969 ) for that speech act . |
| 23 | I was touched when my dad told me that every night he stood on the back doorstep and said goodnight to John . |
| 24 | The standard answer to suggestions that the judiciary is less than a representative cross-section of society is that the Lord Chancellor can only fashion judges from the timber he finds on the list of QCs . |
| 25 | A DESPERATE businessman saved his company from bankruptcy by gambling every penny he had on the spin of a wheel . |
| 26 | He is a director of the Eastern Ravens Trust , which helps disabled people in the area He campaigns on the environment and is a believer in unilateral nuclear disarmament . |
| 27 | The famous ‘ twinkle ’ in his eye and the firm yet non-interventionist finger he kept on the pulse of hall life made him a fair but firm warden at all times . |
| 28 | On the half-hour he got on the end of a short pass from Vialli on the edge of the penalty area and hit a fine shot that brought an equally fine save from Pumpido . |
| 29 | When he reached the door he pulled on the bell and waited . |
| 30 | to bed he wrote on a paper a bill , bill , bill |