Example sentences of "he have [verb] on [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what recent representations he has received on low flying ; and if he will make a statement . |
| 2 | He has played on Panamanian nationalism to exploit resentment at US interference in Panamanian affairs and met charge with counter-charge . |
| 3 | As the educated urban elite abandon Mr Collor , following a series of media exposes of his political record , he has relied on continued support from rural voters at rallies of up to 70,000 . |
| 4 | Instead , he has relied on great fitness and stamina to enable him to keep sprinting in at full pace , and speed of arm and perfect balance to capitalize on the momentum ; combined with an unrelenting desire to keep on taking more and more wickets , it has all proved irresistible . |
| 5 | He has served on several Law Society committees , was Chair of the Young Solicitors Group , and Chair of the International Relations Committee from 1983 to 1987 . |
| 6 | The table he has built on this plan — only a mock-up as yet — is in two halves , each with a half circle cut out . |
| 7 | Now he has called on British Rail for a second time to step up safety and end the easy access to the East Coast main line . |
| 8 | PREMIER John Major is so worried this weekend 's EC summit will end in disaster he has called on bitter enemy Francois Mitterrand for help . |
| 9 | He has struggled on social security to bring up Louis with girlfriend Debbie Blount . |
| 10 | He has haggled on that number with the Home Secretary and been beaten down … |
| 11 | He has put on 4½ stone , and at 13 stone admits he is now overweight . |
| 12 | He has worked on financial aid programmes in developing countries of Africa and Asia . |
| 13 | The closest he came to exercise was to open one eye every so often , if someone entered the room , or to open both eyes , smile , and wag his tail as he 'd done on one occasion when confronted by a housebreaker ! |
| 14 | He 'd come for an evening 's entertainment and , though the food was good , he 'd reckoned on stronger meat . |
| 15 | Suffice to say that the young medic concerned must have wished he 'd picked on any person in the history of Equity rather than your hyper-ventilating authoress . |
| 16 | He wished he 'd thought to put shoes on before he 'd started on this piece of nonsense ; feet felt like blocks of ice . |
| 17 | One got the impression that Mr Callaghan felt that he had to put on one side the normal practice of consulting only a small group of inner ministers on economic issues , and had to carry all the colleagues , all twenty-two , if he was to have a hope of carrying the party in the country clearly out of the crisis . |
| 18 | He had to put on some plaster so there were only three |
| 19 | He was still wearing the elegantly tailored suit he had worn on that occasion . |
| 20 | He had to decide on some action . |
| 21 | As Caparo showed , there had to be a specific relationship between the function that the defendant was requested to perform and the transaction in relation to which the plaintiff said he had relied on proper performance . |
| 22 | Once he had decided on Free-range chicken à la Thallium , it was fairly important not to buy anything Elinor might choose as a substitute . |
| 23 | From there , the crossing and the distance he had covered on that path , to the place where he was found , would take him no more than half an hour — less , if he was a brisk walker , and it was raining , he 'd be no longer than he need out in it . |
| 24 | Progressing slowly , seeming older by years than he had seemed on this beach the day before , more bent and huddled , the Commander shook his head in time to the steps he took . |
| 25 | President Mohammed Hosni Mubarak cut short an official five-day visit to China ( where he had arrived on that day ) to return to Egypt . |
| 26 | He had been sitting on the cart since early morning and all he had to show for scouring the streets was an old tin bath that he had found on some wasteground , a couple of sacks of rags and one or two pieces of old iron . |
| 27 | When he first came , he had worked on various building sites . |