Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [pron] on his " in BNC.
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| 1 | He stands above me on his knuckles like a gorilla , and peers at me curiously . |
| 2 | I mean I know through the summer holidays that I 've really got to get to work with him on his maths , likewise I know I 've got a lot of work to do myself for |
| 3 | If my father ca n't provide a decent standard of living for me on his present salary , then he will just have to start looking for another job . |
| 4 | She ran as hard as she could , and the wolf came after her on his long grey legs . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'm hoping to see something of Czechoslovakia while I 'm here , ’ she replied , but as it suddenly struck her that the silence emanating from Ven Gajdusek was decidedly chilly — and since the last thing she needed was to be bad friends with him if he objected to Lubor Ondrus flirting with her on his time , ‘ But now I must return to my hotel , ’ she added . |
| 6 | Also included is an inkstand presented to him on his wedding by the Prince and Princess of Wales est. £3–5,000 ( $5–8,500 ) . |
| 7 | After listening to it on his headphones for a few minutes , Syrian George stopped the tape , looked Mikalis up and down and turned to Coleman . |
| 8 | Lack of peak fitness had told against him on his first run of the 1989–90 season when pitched in against Desert Orchid and other top chasers in the King George VI Rank Chase at Kempton Park on Boxing Day . |
| 9 | Well I suppose yeah cos they could set on him on his own |
| 10 | The primary source for ‘ Kubla Khan ’ is the book Purchas his Pilgrimage ( 1614 ) which Coleridge had evidently brought with him on his Culbone visit — borrowed perhaps from the bookroom or from the well stocked library at Alfoxden — and which describes how ‘ In Xanada did Cublai Can build a stately Pallace . ’ |
| 11 | An infant who damages another by carelessly running into him on his bicycle is liable just as a person of full age would be . |
| 12 | Despite his human limitations he managed to retrieve the underwater thorn which would give immortality , although it was stolen from him on his journey back to Uruk by a serpent . |
| 13 | A lay assistant wrote that the Archbishop of Canterbury would attend to it on his return to London from Canterbury , but no further communication ever arrived . |
| 14 | I go and sit beside him on his boxes and feel much the same as he does . |
| 15 | And er we 'll have given it him I mean on his on his total cost he 'll be down . |
| 16 | My er , circumstances are entirely different , I am the person who 's being cared for and my husband died in nineteen eighty seven , and my son in nineteen eighty eight and I was left with my young son , and he looked after me on his own , and then my daughter who li , I was living in Ireland , my daughter lived in England , and she decided it was n't good enough that it should all be left to him , so we had a long talk and we discussed it at length for two weeks at Christmas , and then they all moved Sou , over here , we got a house in Scotland , and I 'm looked after by my young son and my daughter , and since then a year ago my daughter got married , her husband moved in and he looks after me as well , so I 'm looked after by three young adults . |
| 17 | At the peak of the agitation more than 12,000 troops were stationed in the disturbed regions of the Midlands and the North — more soldiers than Wellington took with him on his first expedition to Portugal in 1808 in the Peninsular War . |
| 18 | All he took with him on his voyage was a spare pair of shoes , a sandwich and a 1992 sports diary with a map of the world , the court heard . |
| 19 | So was ‘ The Tinker 's Grace ’ , purporting to be Bunyan 's prison musings on Divine Grace , and so was Pedro of Portugal 's rapt and bizarre declaration of love , in 1356 , for the embalmed corpse of his murdered wife , Iñez de Castro , who swayed beside him on his travels , leather-brown and skeletal , crowned with lace and gold circlet , hung about with chains of diamonds and pearls , her bone-fingers fantastically ringed . |
| 20 | Napoleon marched through it on his way to Moscow , but today the road is used by those who wish to avoid the pressures of autobahn driving and see something of the pleasant , rolling countryside of Westphalia . |
| 21 | His most regular companions were artists , several of whom , such as Walter Crane , Sir George Frampton [ qq.v. ] , and Robert Anning Bell collaborated with him on his buildings . |
| 22 | I delivered the stitched brochure ( which it had become ) to Eliot , and he went through it , sitting with it on his knees and brooding over each page . |
| 23 | I agree with you on his ambiguity and the danger of flirting with such issues — you 're not telling him what to write but , being an idol to many fans , he has to have sense of responsibility . |
| 24 | One example is a deafened Link guest who in 1974 went home with a TL and practised with it on his own for 1¼ hours every evening after supper as a regular routine . |
| 25 | I owe him much in this regard and shall always be grateful for the interest and encouragement he gave to me on his visits to our school , in particular the visit he paid only a year ago when he addressed my staff and helped them all by his understanding and the depth of his practical knowledge and experience . |
| 26 | While it 's true that nobody does any work in The Possessed except delivering babies , and true also that Stepan Verkhovensky flowers into a veritable presiding genius of sloth in the guise of footling bustle , nevertheless the reader 's heart is not with Mrs Stavrogin , Stepan 's patroness , when she hisses at him on his deathbed ‘ you futile , futile , ignoble , chickenhearted , always , always futile man ’ . |
| 27 | I wonder what time , the other night , Trevor had with them on his own ? |
| 28 | I wonder what kind of a night Trevor had with them on his own ? |
| 29 | Under the previous law the hooker was striking against no-one on his own ball and rarely competed on his opponents ball for he was involved in the eight man drive . |
| 30 | After Cross and Wilson had moved to Jamaica , taking the painter Eve Discher with them to act as their housekeeper , Minton stayed with them on his visit to that country in 1950 . |