Example sentences of "[vb pp] on [prep] his [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Corcoran had stared stonily at him through the pince-nez fastened on to his thin beak of a nose . |
| 2 | It was a and also was doted on by his two sisters . |
| 3 | This time , dad is a casually callous surgeon ( William Hurt ) , who finds himself being operated on within his own hospital . |
| 4 | He had liaised closely with him as a handler until his transfer to the Operations Planning Department , but Whitlock never really got on with his new handler and jumped at the chance to work with Philpott again . |
| 5 | Diogenes Laertius was not the only ancient philosopher he had worked on in his later Leipzig days : he had also grappled with the Aristotelian corpus and , especially , with the Presocratic , Democritus . |
| 6 | Perhaps Mr Dlouhy should have held on to his official Audi after all . |
| 7 | Byas held on to his third catch in the slips to gain Carrick the wicket of Harvey Trump , and after Robinson had returned to account for Andrew Cottam , Carrick rounded off the innings by getting the stubborn Andrew Caddick caught at extra cover for 37 . |