Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] he on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Smith has been dismissed as ‘ presence of mind Smith ’ from his alleged remark on returning without his companion from a disastrous outing on the river : ‘ If I had not with great presence of mind hit him on the head with a boathook both would have been drowned , ’ but the story comes from Reminiscences of Oxford ( 1st edn. 1900 ) by William Tuckwell , who in his second edition ( 1907 ) consigned it to oblivion ; moreover , there was no charge of murder . |
| 2 | The department sent him on an Assertive Course . |
| 3 | Almost a year after his ‘ There 's Nothing Like This ’ hit single and reactivated album put him on first-name terms with the British public , Omar Lye-Kook is still based in north London , operating out of his father 's tiny Kongo Dance offices and recording down the road in Willesden . |
| 4 | The Association honoured him on his retirement with the award of a medal of honour and elected him as a Vice-President The following year he was made an OBE for his lifelong work for the deaf . |
| 5 | Some treated Charles Manson as a hero , and the underground newspaper , the Los Angeles Free Press allowed Manson to write a column for them while he was in jail ; another , called Tuesday 's Child depicted him on a cross . |
| 6 | On his journey , fearful and probably suffering from reactionary depression , he slept a night under a broom bush , where he dreamed that an angel touched him on the shoulder and bade him rise and eat . |
| 7 | Her arm caught in the mesh and her fist hit him on the side of the head . |
| 8 | Again , Brian Harley hit a less-than-perfect drive , but his two-iron across the angle of the dogleg put him on the front edge of the green . |
| 9 | The only mishap was that in forcing himself through the gap , he nudged the twig and the falling window struck him on the head . |
| 10 | Owen 's reaction touched him on a sore spot ; and it was made all the sorer by an angry feeling inside him that there had indeed been incompetence , Egyptian incompetence , that he , Mahmoud , was ultimately responsible for it — and that there was absolutely nothing that he could in practice do about it . |
| 11 | Rain congratulated him on finding the proof . |
| 12 | These two seemed friendly enough , but their questions about Sweetheart put him on the defensive . |
| 13 | Both safely negotiated the treacherous short 15th hole and Faldo 's putter rescued him on the 18th green . |
| 14 | Crowley 's wife divorced him on grounds of admitted adultery in 1910 . |
| 15 | My wife my wife heard him on the radio on Saturday morning she said who 's this why does he keep saying motor car , motor car |
| 16 | If this were ever done , then unless some other constituency took him on board in time for the general election , or perhaps unless he stood and won in his constituency as some kind of independent Labour candidate with at least PLP support , then , on the declaration of the result in his constituency , he would lose any right to remain Prime Minister . |
| 17 | The next morning found him on the practice fields as soon as the sun was up , battering his post as though it were a mortal enemy . |
| 18 | He was seen twice near the village of Langley Park on Saturday night , and yesterday a woman noticed him on the busy A167 dual carriageway on the outskirts of Durham City about 10 miles from Lanchester . |
| 19 | The Colonel kissed him on both cheeks . |
| 20 | It was a Smythe drill , and his father took him on some ‘ short work ’ , a piece of land where no one could see it . |
| 21 | Life magazine put him on the cover and that single photograph of Manson , with his evil , hypnotic stare , became for the hysterical mass media , the face of a violent , drug-crazed substrata of society : the monster hidden in the heart of every hippie and longhaired supporter of a culture which seemed certain to encompass an increasing section of youth and bandwagonners . |
| 22 | I could tell he was pleased with himself but a bit scared , just like when he used to keep the half-crown Father gave him on Sundays , rather than put it on the collection plate . |
| 23 | He wanted another beer , but Gari had him on one-a-day for as long as his organic rice diet was holding up . |
| 24 | Ten years ago , when Davey Boy was a mere unknown moving to America and desperate to make a name for himself , the Hit Man helped him on the ladder to success . |
| 25 | His infuriated wife , who had learned little of him since his departure , and had in all probability imagined him on a chain gang in some inhospitable region , had since learned that her husband was enjoying a rich existence with the high rollers of Sydney . |
| 26 | His daughter fed him on tins of baby food , which again confirmed for me the sour joke of existence and the particular contemptibility of this old man . |
| 27 | The beadle hit him on the back , and so naturally Oliver cried even more . |
| 28 | Although the jury acquitted him on one murder charge , it was deadlocked over a second and a riot charge , and a retrial was arranged for Sept. 17 . |
| 29 | But a late Rangers ' free-kick hit him on his nearly-bald spot and bounced kindly for Dennis Bailey to rob United of a point . |
| 30 | His natural caution kept him on the political sidelines , although he was well placed to know what was going on at the highest level , as the ‘ Historia Roffensis ’ , written by a clerk in his entourage , demonstrates . |