Example sentences of "he [vb past] on a [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kondratiev 's basic proposition was that the advanced capitalist economies as a whole ( although he concentrated on a selected few only ) go through cycles of booms and slumps in a regular pattern . |
| 2 | He played on a toy wooden horse in the waiting room and Dr Alison Atkinson warned him when she spotted him trying a surgery door . |
| 3 | At the same time he embarked on a great literary work , Syntagma musicum , in three volumes : I , historical , published at Wittenberg in 1615 ; II , ‘ concerning instruments ’ , 1618 ( with a supplementary volume of illustrations , Theatrum Instrumentorum , in 1620 ) ; and III , 1619 , in which , as in the preface to Polyhymnia , he gives the most copious information as to the heterogeneous ways in which these great Italian-mannered but profoundly German compositions may be performed-with or without continuo , with contrasting groups of instruments , voices soli or ripieni , and so on . |
| 4 | Like a mountaineer conquering his own nightmare , he embarked on a two-month personal encounter with the unknown — the working class , who populated his childhood memories as a spectre of fear and loathing . |
| 5 | He pulled on a bright yellow weatherproof jacket over his thick jersey and moleskin trousers , slid his long feet into rubber boots and collected some keys from the study . |
| 6 | He lay on a hard little bed and struggled to start breathing . |
| 7 | He stood before the rusty , blood-stained block , his face covered by a black hood as he leaned on a great two-edged axe . |
| 8 | At that time he travelled on a little inter-island plane to the northerly island of Westray to teach for two days a week ; for a while he taught for two days on the island of Sanday as well . |