Example sentences of "[verb] on [pron] [prep] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | The door was shut and he banged on it with his knuckles two or three times before he heard a movement inside and the door opened . |
| 2 | I 've called back into his mind the spells I put on him at his birth . |
| 3 | The section then continues — ‘ But it shall comprise the following particulars : — ( a ) All such property as may belong to or be vested in the bankrupt at the commencement of the bankruptcy , or may be acquired by or devolve on him before his discharge ; … |
| 4 | Pontypridd captain STEELE LEWIS had a three-week suspension imposed on him by his club following what was described as ‘ an internal incident ’ . |
| 5 | In spite of all this , we do not think that anyone who has chosen to work in a job where he is paid weekly should have monthly payment imposed on him against his will . |
| 6 | Allen turned on him with his bow at full stretch , but the little man did not stir . |
| 7 | It is clear that a waiver is of no effect unless it is unequivocal and only where the representee acts on it to his detriment . |
| 8 | Well I suppose yeah cos they could set on him on his own |
| 9 | One , Sir Joseph Robinson , who had been convicted for fraudulent share-dealing in South Africa , was sufficiently so that the Chief Whip , F. E. Guest , was charged with calling on him in his suite at the Savoy Hotel and telling him that he had no alternative but to withdraw from the list even though his name had already been published . |
| 10 | But the other versions , admiring ones like Hartman 's or Megill 's , and hostile ones like Tallis 's , are all based on something in his writing . |
| 11 | Elton alleges the reporter used a helicopter to spy on him at his Atlanta home , and threatened to run a negative story if he did n't agree to an interview . |
| 12 | The Chinese rug in the centre of the hall showed no blemish — until he walked on it with his muddy brogues . |
| 13 | My husband had many friends there and they sometimes called on him for his help and advice . |
| 14 | The last time he called on us after his exhibition at Keighley he seemed a new man , with a delight in having found himself in his painting and amazement that it also gave pleasure to so many others . |
| 15 | Frank Bishop was hit on the head , neck and body with a wooden club by two men who pounced on him outside his home in Witney yesterday . |
| 16 | And erm my brother said well you 've got ta give me some they told Joe nobody had got to go on it from his property and nobody had got to step on it because . |
| 17 | And he went on gazing out of the window , drawing on it with his finger until Mrs Hollins came out and rapped on the glass . |
| 18 | If any doctor had depended on us for his living , then he would have died in penury . |
| 19 | And er we 'll have given it him I mean on his on his total cost he 'll be down . |
| 20 | And his tzedaka — the performance of charitable deeds enjoined on him by his religion — won him the gratitude and loyalty of many of the young men and their dependants , for it was as his travellers that they made their weekly Monday-morning trek to the country , secure in the knowledge that , no matter how erratic the week 's takings might be , their basic wage was guaranteed by Max Klein . |
| 21 | The Joker is a very intelligent horse and knows his ‘ covering bridle ’ which we use on him for his studwork , or his ordinary bridle when he is ridden , and behaves accordingly . |
| 22 | Jeff Ritcher , my choreographer , has spent most of the thirteen years he 's worked on me with his head in his hands crying with laughter or frustration . |
| 23 | It 's been forced on him by his doctor . |
| 24 | There 's this guy in our in our and everyone jumped on him in his bed and started . |