Example sentences of "he [verb] on [adj] [noun] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 He sits on some plastic institutional sofa .
2 To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland how many direct employees of Scottish Enterprise are currently working on the defence industries initiative he announced on 14 October 1991 ; and if he will make a statement on the actions which have so far been taken .
3 Having returned to Oxford , he became on 21 April 1676 a privileged ( i.e. tradesman ) member of the university , championed by the mathematician John Wallis [ q.v . ] .
4 He writes on 1 January 1745 :
5 He entered on 28 March 1826 , was made deacon in May 1838 and , much too young for priest 's orders , went in December 1839 to the English College , Rome , where he was ordained on 19 March 1842 .
6 He noted on 1 November that in the future the United States would have to walk a tightrope between the newly independent states and the old colonial powers .
7 He was appointed gentleman of the bedchamber to the Prince of Wales in 1791 , represented Scarborough ( 1796–1802 ) and Monmouth ( 1802–13 ) in the House of Commons , was made a privy councillor in 1797 and comptroller ( until 1804 ) of the household , then joint paymaster-general of the forces under the premiership of William Pitt and the third Duke of Portland in 1804–13 , before accepting the governorship of the Cape Colony , South Africa , where he arrived on 6 April 1814 .
8 In this he concentrates on two men guiding a crate on the end of a pulley .
9 He began on 1st November 1948 earning £4–7/ — for a forty five hour week in general service .
10 The earliest record of Thomas is of his admission as a commoner at Brasenose College , Oxford , on 1 March 1653 ; he matriculated on 2 April 1653 , and was admitted to the degree of BA on 13 October 1656 , created MA on 6 November 1661 , and admitted BD on 11 December 1669 .
11 He matriculated on 3 April 1699 at Oxford where he studied at Balliol College as ‘ pauper puer ’ .
12 ‘ The French domineering still at sea , ’ he recorded on 3 August 1690 , ‘ landed some souldiers at Tinmoth in Devon and burned some poore houses . ’
13 He called on civil servants loyal to him to denounce subversive colleagues .
14 If he died on 14 December 705 he would have reigned a full twenty years and probably several months as well .
15 Most of his family and friends had predeceased him and he died on 9th June 1834 , aged 72 , trusting only in the grace of God for his salvation .
16 He remained there until he died on 18 January 1923 , aged thirty .
17 He died on 29th April 1823 and was buried on 3rd May at Grasmere .
18 Brownswerd was recommended to the Master 's post while Leigh was still in , office , and his appointment was confirmed on , 9th March 1565 ; he had taught already in Wilmslow and Macclesfield , and was to teach later at Stratford-on-Avon and again at Macclesfield , where he died on 15th April 1589 .
19 He died on 15th November 1910 whilst living in retirement at Walberswick , Suffolk , and is buried in St. Andrew 's Church in the same plot of ground as his hearing wife Charlotte , and painter son Allan Douglas Davidson ( 1873–1932 ) .
20 He died on 3rd February 1876 .
21 Gerald Rhodes wrote in the Epilogue to his Extracts : ‘ He died on 12th March 1877 at the age of 60 and , as was his wish , was buried in Lydham churchyard alongside his wife , Emily .
22 He died on 3 September 1969 , after a heart attack .
23 He died on 20 April 1986 at the age of 82 .
24 By November 1308 he had apparently renounced the world and entered the Irish Dominican house at Trim , where he died on 21 October 1314 .
25 He resigned on 24 October 1386 with the rest .
26 Here Captain Darrell Locke describes what he did on 30 June 1989 .
27 This he did on 22 July 1212 .
28 This June 1954 view of 26015 passing over the pointwork of Glossop line at Dinting reminds the writer of the final working which he witnessed on 10th March 1981 .
29 Could he also tell me whether he said on 16 December 1983 : ’ We are committed to a non-nuclear defence policy ? ’
30 This is what he said on 8 May 1992 :
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