Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pers pn] on his " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perched them on his nose . |
| 2 | Sooner than he had expected , Harry found himself back in Swindon Central Library , this time perusing the national newspapers for 2 June 1987 in the hope of gleaning from them some clue as to what had eluded him on his visit to Tyler 's Hard . |
| 3 | ‘ Nearly a fortnight ’ , he complained , was spent in Sydney organising his journey to the other side of the Liverpool Range — that remote and tantalising region that had eluded him on his first visit to Yarrundi because he had had to return to his wife in Hobart . |
| 4 | I 'd have dropped it on his head ! ’ |
| 5 | Maybe , if she could have accepted him on his terms … |
| 6 | Slater had seen him on his BMW bike , or just getting off it . |
| 7 | He had met him on his way to the stables , and they stood in a yard which was busy with blacksmiths and farriers . |
| 8 | Merrivale could have done it on his own when he was in there with her , and the gentleman who came in from outside did n't need a partner either . |
| 9 | Attendance at the ball indicated considerable standing in the adult world and he had a sudden savage desire to show his parents , who would be there , that he had made it on his own , without any help from them . |
| 10 | Li Shai Tung stood , leaning heavily upon the silver-headed cane he had come to use so often these days ; the cane with the dragon 's head Han Ch'in had bought him on his fiftieth birthday . |
| 11 | Gilmour Thom , 51 , an institutional salesman with Bell Lawrie White , told the court that after Mackie had briefed him on his meeting with Mr Runciman , he had sold about 1.5 million Shanks & McEwan shares at prices ranging from 305p to 318p . |
| 12 | It 's not as if Roy 's had it on his toes , is it ? |
| 13 | He 's got it on his face ! |
| 14 | He 's got it on his |
| 15 | Who 's got it on his face ? |
| 16 | What 's he got it on his mouth for ? |
| 17 | Children have sometimes got personal things to say , like , ‘ We 've got owls in our barn ’ or ‘ My uncle 's got 'em on his farm ’ or ‘ What are they doing in my friend 's shed ? ’ |
| 18 | He must somehow have dislodged them on his way in . |
| 19 | Henry knew nothing about the new papal anathemas of which Anselm was the bearer , and he immediately required him first to renew the homage which he had done to Rufus , and then to consecrate his chancellor William Giffard to the bishopric of Winchester , with which he had invested him on his coronation day . |
| 20 | He 'd dandled her on his knee when she could hardly walk . |
| 21 | Someone of great influence in Britain must have exercised it on his behalf but who did so is not known . |
| 22 | Kohl , in eastern Germany for the first time since the December 1990 general election , was jeered and pelted with eggs by several hundred protesters on April 7 in Erfurt ( where enthusiastic crowds of over 100,000 had greeted him on his last visit in February 1990 — see p. 37260 ) . |
| 23 | ‘ A little thing could have set him on his way any time these past three years , and it would have had the same ending . ’ |
| 24 | Unaware that a fly has accompanied him on his maiden voyage , he turns into a sex-obsessed , sugar-addicted mutant . |
| 25 | TOKS AKPATA is a man whose love of the game and whose own sad injury have spurred him on his one-man campaign to make the rugby pitch a safer place . |
| 26 | His mother had waved him on his way , not his father . |
| 27 | She realised she was gripping the gun with two hands and had trained it on his chest , as if she expected him to leap up at any moment and lunge at her . |
| 28 | The reporter squirmed in his seat , and then seizing Stella 's hand placed it on his lap and held it there , gripping her by the wrist . |
| 29 | Then he lifted his hat from the tea-chest , rubbed some dirt off it with his sleeve , placed it on his head and stood up . |
| 30 | He had questioned him on his knowledge of Reading , and his whereabouts on 22 June . |