Example sentences of "[vb past] he on a " in BNC.
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| 1 | His relations in the St. Cleer area noticed the name of their now famous relation and invited him on a visit . |
| 2 | I mean you 're lucky to get that one mate , I mean you must have been , caught him on a real good day . |
| 3 | ‘ Two days after I did the tattoo they found him on a street in Los Ilusiones . |
| 4 | As preparation for his new appointment the BDA sponsored him on a two-year course at Bulmershe College , now Reading University , for a certificate in youth and community work , which he duly obtained . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | When he gave them his name they arrested him on a charge of rape . |
| 8 | The trial of Marion Barry , 54 , Mayor of Washington DC , ended on Aug. 10 when , after eight days of deliberation , the jury convicted him on one count of possessing cocaine but acquitted him on a second charge of possession . |
| 9 | On Friday , 10 March , by which time Pons was becoming convinced that their hopes were at last being confirmed , Ron Fawcett , the US editor of the Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry , called him on a personal matter . |
| 10 | Council members mostly agreed they are a hazard , and Peter pointed out that if the car that hit him on a roundabout had been fitted with them , he would n't be here now . |
| 11 | To wit : Syrett , beautiful but doomed , cut his hand on a wine glass at a party and , after ignoring his doctor 's advice to avoid climbing , did irreparable damage to his tendons which started him on a tightening spiral of alcoholism and eventual suicide . |
| 12 | But they started him on a new course of treatment yesterday and he 's begun to respond . ’ |
| 13 | Then they peeled back the bedcovers and laid him on a crisp sheet , covering him from the waist down with another sheet . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | A senior detective said : ‘ The married woman said she met him on a plane . |
| 16 | ‘ She was a married woman , who said she met him on a plane , ’ a senior detective told TODAY . |
| 17 | She met him on a forest track , ran him down and did her best to kill him . |
| 18 | If a member crossed him on a policy issue , as Callaghan did on trade-union reform in the spring of 1969 , he would be expelled , even if , like Callaghan as Home Secretary , he was a pillar of the administration . |
| 19 | Its work , once it had got under way , was slowed and complicated by disputes of this kind between the French and Spanish and French and imperial representatives , while the Venetian one , Contarini , threatened to withdraw altogether from the negotiations unless the comte d'Avaux , the leader of the French delegation , treated him on a basis of complete equality . |
| 20 | Edouard took him on a tour of the stables ; he showed him the tack-room ; he introduced him to the horses , and gave the little boy lumps of sugar to give them . |
| 21 | One day he slipped off alone , out of interest , to look up a local doctor , who took him on a tour of hospitals . |
| 22 | Former Rovers boss Don Mackay took him on a free transfer from Gijon to Ewood Park two seasons ago . |
| 23 | But a new administration in 1807 sent him on a futile mission to conciliate Denmark , following the British bombardment of Copenhagen . |
| 24 | I 've called him Ferdinand ( not Caliban ) three times , and complimented him on a horrid new tie . |
| 25 | ‘ After I saw him on a TV programme I phoned him . |
| 26 | I decided to give him the name of ‘ Man Friday ’ , because I first saw him on a Friday . |
| 27 | Just that I saw him on a train to London a couple of weeks ago . |
| 28 | I think I saw him on a bicycle . ’ |
| 29 | Well when when the doctor saw him on a fortnight ago this Friday today , a fortnight ago today the doctor phoned the ward and said have you got a bed I 've got a man here who 's be who is between myself and my curry dinner time and you could be saving two people 's lives my life cos he was so hungry |
| 30 | The sergeant followed him in and found him smoking and put him on a discipline charge — idling his time . |