Example sentences of "[subord] he [verb] on the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tallboy was n't sure how to judge his superior 's tone but he needed a fillip to his esteem right now so he looked on the bright side . |
| 2 | Once he hits on the right track he should be able to follow him to the place where he leaves the food and then watch who picks it up . |
| 3 | The boy who kicks his football close to windows can be reprimanded more easily if he was one of those to draw up the rule against doing so and if he agreed on the appropriate punishment beforehand . |
| 4 | And if he lived on the other side of the world she would think nothing of flying to meet him , she said . |
| 5 | They did notice that , contrary to his usual custom , he showered at the end of the morning 's gym classes ; but since he put on the same grubby and sweaty old clothes he had come in , that was practically a wasted gesture . |
| 6 | He polished his pebble glasses on a handkerchief , a little diversion before he embarked on the full story . |
| 7 | The house wore a permanently uncompleted air as if , sixty years before , the builder had intended it to be part of a pair of semi-detached houses but had run out of money or enthusiasm before he started on the second one . |
| 8 | Dalgliesh was briefing his team before he started on the preliminary interviews . |
| 9 | Before he concentrated on the actual scene of the crime , Dalgliesh always liked to make a cursory survey of the surroundings to orientate himself , and , as it were , to set the scene of murder . |
| 10 | When he goes on the one day in two years that something went wrong , that shows he 's doing a good job . ’ |
| 11 | Karen Schendel looked up and smiled at Whitlock when he knocked on the open door . |
| 12 | As Charles limped along Praed Street , he began to regret dressing up for the encounter , but when he reflected on the exceptional violence of blackmailers in all detective fiction , he decided it was as well to conceal his identity . |
| 13 | When he walked the perimeter fence , when he worked at the bench with the wood that would become a chair 's leg , when he ate in the Kitchen , when he lay on the top tier of the bunk , he was alive and alert . |
| 14 | Perhaps I could be Eric 's stunt man , standing in when he turns on the flash dangerous stuff that terrifies the defenders in his wake and makes them have a go like David Burrows did . |
| 15 | The purchases , together with the remedial action , should ensure that Martin Craddock , chairman and chief executive , can at least match analysts ' forecasts of £1.8m pre-tax when he reports on the 1989-90 year . |
| 16 | On the British side there was a string of adverse comments on French performance and attitudes from newspaper correspondents ; although the Daily Telegraph correspondent was not being particularly sensational when he reported on the unnecessary brutality of the French and concluded ‘ The solution of the problem of rule in Indo-China will depend primarily upon French ability to exercise tact and conciliation ’ . |
| 17 | He took the Canal Turn as fluently as he had on the first circuit , then swept towards Valentine 's Brook . |
| 18 | " Why are they doing all this work so early in the morning ? " she asked Captain Duro when he appeared on deck looking as spruce and polished as he had on the first day she met him . |
| 19 | If she made no response , he might well climb over the wall all the same , as he had on the previous night ; on the other hand if she went to him and they were caught his offence would be deemed the worse , for being found on Roscarrock property was one thing , but being caught dallying with a servant girl was another . |
| 20 | Back in the room , he made her kneel before him , as he sat on the upright chair . |
| 21 | As he turned on the hot-water tap and got out the dish detergent , Hank abandoned the idea of going back to his garage . |
| 22 | They live in a political cowards ' Disney world where Tom is always chasing Gerry in an ever-decreasing circle of options while , outside in the real world , Bugs Bunny is having his tail shot off as he chokes on the latest political carrot . |
| 23 | As he stood on the first tee at New Orleans last week , he noticed a boy in a wheelchair . |
| 24 | His heart thumped as he stood on the Yugoslav border and stared through the night at the nearby fields in Hungary . |
| 25 | Ranulf threw him a penny , then cursed as he slipped on the decaying corpse of a rat . |
| 26 | As he teetered on the narrow platform , with peacock feathers moulting in his fists , Garvey wrenched the mirror off the scenery and threw it down on to the stage . |
| 27 | Alan Charleson , 52 , of Southport , Merseyside , was mowed down by a Romanian car as he stopped on the Hungarian border . |
| 28 | There was a gulph [ sic ] between slavery and freedom which could neither be filled up nor closed over and across which the slave must leap ere he alighted on the other side and found himself a free man . |
| 29 | Though he worked on the new liturgy , he was only able to publish the English Litany in Henry 's reign . |
| 30 | Though he lives on the French-Italian border , most of his frauds are perpetrated from Amsterdam . |