Example sentences of "by [verb] his [noun] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The pair of them added a fair number of crashes to the record that year and when both Hunt and Horsley crashed at Brands Hatch ( Hunt made it a double by crashing his Mini on the way home ! ) |
| 2 | One keen young steward on the Cannon Street-Hastings trains drummed up afternoon beer trade by operating his trolley on the platforms at Cannon Street . |
| 3 | But Mr Arafat 's critics accuse him of acting like a dictator by forcing his wishes on the Palestinian movement . |
| 4 | Rush vividly recalls the day when Dalglish shook football by turning his back on the club he loved . |
| 5 | This situation may best be illustrated , so far as Anselm is concerned , by examining his interventions on the subject of monastic vows . |
| 6 | He began a forlorn final game by losing his grip on the racket altogether . |
| 7 | Own branders The liability applies under s2(2) ( b ) to : ( b ) any person who , by putting his name on the product or using a trade mark or other distinguishing mark in relation to the product , has held himself out to be the producer of the product . |
| 8 | Count Geoffrey , by concentrating his forces on the conquest of Normandy , was able to recover the continental part of his wife 's inheritance by 1144 , and in 1150 he passed it on to his eldest son Henry Plantagenet , now twenty years old . |
| 9 | Counsel for the prosecution invited the jury to decide between the suggestion that the officer had ‘ gone to the very depth of deceit ’ by imposing his attention on the woman or whether she had made ‘ a wicked and false allegation ’ . |