Example sentences of "he [vb past] [vb pp] on the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Some of the language that he used bordered on the unforgivable . |
| 2 | And on a er visit to a museum a few weeks later he also discovered flying boots of exact prints he 'd seen on the wet floor . |
| 3 | Instead of returning to the dressing-room to change as she normally did , she made her way through the backstage area back into the club , determined that he should n't simply disappear without trace as he 'd done on the previous evenings . |
| 4 | Charlie ignored me , as he was ignoring most of his friends since he 'd appeared on the front page of the Bromley and Kentish Times with his band , Must n't Grumble , after an open-air gig in a local sports ground . |
| 5 | He 'd rapped on the open door as he 'd passed it , and said , ‘ Who called for International Rescue ? ’ |
| 6 | of anything he 'd met on the seven seas . |
| 7 | He had to leave after the first rehearsals when the only line he could remember was the one he 'd tried on the leading lady the night before . |
| 8 | His stubborn cousin , who saw his models as a kind of earth , part of the body and blood of the soil they dug , one impregnating the other , failed to see how the interchange he saw stamped on the dazed faces of these men could be smoothed away without losing the secret of how they lived , rooted and dumb and rough-barked as live willow trees . |
| 9 | A refutation of the aspersions he had cast on the personal conduct of the separatists , it concluded with an appeal to her antagonist to ‘ receive admonition , though it be from a woman ’ . |
| 10 | Every evening he would come down wearing the black cashmere jacket he had worn on the first night , and in a mood that was somehow expectant . |
| 11 | The little boy was wearing the same neat grey flannels that he had worn on the first day Robert had seen him , and , when the sun struck his face , he smiled up at it as if in gratitude . |
| 12 | The Doctor had bent to examine something he had seen on the dappled carpet beside the communications terminal . |
| 13 | As it was , to Pétain , mindful of the chaos he had witnessed on the icy road the day of his arrival , there was room for every possible doubt . |
| 14 | He had never enjoyed the thought of making love in a standing position since the embarrassment he had suffered on the last occasion , about a year before . |
| 15 | He had hit on the same theme in Jubilate Agno , B404 : |
| 16 | He had insisted on the whole sequence being shown again and , indeed , it was to appear , more or less in full , that evening in every national television news bulletin . |
| 17 | He looked as icily cold as he had done on the other two occasions she had met him . |
| 18 | Charles could have chosen any excuse for the phone call and it was pure chance that he had lighted on the meaningless ‘ numberplate racket ’ I ‘ So that 's what made you drive down in the Datsun , and move the plan forward , and lose a quarter of a million pounds ? ’ |
| 19 | He had knocked on the back door while she was kneading the first batch of bread dough she had ever made in her life — something to do , she thought crossly , with coming to the country — and she had gone to answer him with floury hands and a frown . |
| 20 | ‘ Well , ’ Athelstan pulled from his wallet the buckle he had found on the frozen moat , ‘ I believe this is yours . |
| 21 | He had worked on the optical specificity of certain enzymes ( one may remember that problems of optical activity first drew Pasteur from chemical to biological problems ) but was also devoted to music and became the music critic of a Berlin evening paper . |
| 22 | Michel de Montaigne was so convinced of the importance of contradictoriness that he had emblazoned on the domed ceiling of his library the motto : ‘ To Every Reason an Equal Reason can be opposed ’ . |
| 23 | He also took a stick out of the packet of Edinburgh rock he had bought on the first day . |
| 24 | He had started on the second chair when Dadda shouted up the stairs . |