Example sentences of "he [verb] to his [noun sg] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | To compensate , I told him to move to his left on the return of the serve . |
| 2 | His seeming determination to be confused with the distinguished British artist is evident in the recent press release advertising an exhibition of his work in which he refers to his emphasis on non-commissioned portrait drawings which ‘ entail months , even years , of work with the sitter , while very little peripheral material such as smaller studies , sculpture , and etchings is allowed to emerge from the studio ’ . |
| 3 | Erm he claims the battery ran out before he got to his presentation on the course but I do n't necessarily believe him . |
| 4 | ARMY signalman Philip Cooper had a double Christmas Day surprise when he proposed to his girlfriend on television . |
| 5 | He appends to his article on Molla Husrev a brief notice of the life of Hizir Bey , introduced by the phrase ( " one thing calls to mind another " ) , a phrase with which he later introduces his account of Seyh Abdulkerim , the holder of an ad hominem muftilik in the reign of Suleyman . |
| 6 | When he talked to his mother on the telephone last night about the Los Angeles riots , she pointed out that the same sort of thing — Koreans being attacked by cops , but the cops never being guilty — used to happen in Japan . |
| 7 | Four weeks later at Avus he was back behind the controls , even through he hobbled to his car on crutches and had to be lifted into the cockpit and the pedals had to be modified because he could use only one foot . |
| 8 | In 1983 , he retired to his home on the island of Bau , where , in declining health , he remained largely silent following the two coups of 1987 . |