Example sentences of "[vb past] his [noun sg] on [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Distinguished guests fared only a little better ‘ … a pleasant fiction and cheerful jest of the captain 's … a profoundly preposterous box ’ was how Charles Dickens described his cabin on board the Britannia in which he crossed the Atlantic on his trip to America in 1842 . |
| 2 | Then he watched in horror as a pal crashed his plane on landing , causing £9,000 of damage . |
| 3 | He also concentrated his work on nutrition and health and gained prominence by advocating that health could be improved if people increased the amount of fibre in their diet . |
| 4 | Josiah Wedgwood built his fortune on tea as surely as did investors in the East India Company . |
| 5 | LUCA CUMANI , who built his reputation on success in big handicaps , complicates a cavalry charge of a Cambridgeshire Handicap at Newmarket today by saddling Shellac and Splendid Career , the two best-backed runners in the race . |
| 6 | The foolish man built his house on sand . |
| 7 | The sensible man built his house on rock . |
| 8 | I thought , I thought you were going to say we found his form on tip ! |
| 9 | I was to meet him in later years , but I am sure that the reaction in the chapel of all those within earshot , and particularly of the School Chaplain himself , exactly mirrored ‘ The Guardsman who dropped his rifle on parade ’ and the man who lit his cigar before the Royal toast together with his great friend who ordered a double Scotch in the grand pump-room at Bath . |
| 10 | The farmer , thwarted in his desire to punish Uncle Fred , then vented his spite on Grandfather and the rest of the family . |
| 11 | This prevented his release on parole then or at the end of his sentence in 1991 . |
| 12 | Washing up was just one of the many benefits that usually came his way on party nights . |
| 13 | ANDY PLATT , the world 's best prop forward , turned his back on Aussie gold last night and decided to stay with Wigan for another two years . |
| 14 | World champion Mansell , at loggerheads with Grand Prix team boss Frank Williams , finally snapped and turned his back on Formula One . |
| 15 | The reigning world champion , who turned his back on Formula One after he was outmanoeuvred by Alain Prost last season , has established himself as runaway favourite to win the Indycar championship . |
| 16 | Need ? ’ he persisted mildly as he folded his arms along the fence and rested his chin on top . |
| 17 | Opening the two-day conference , John Gummer renewed his attack on form filling and red tape inherent in the reformed CAP and again declared his opposition to the development of supply controls , such as compulsory land set-aside and the extension of the quota system . |
| 18 | Oh well as I er , as I was saying about th this aunt that stayed with me , er she once er saw a , well I do n't know whether she actually seen it or not , but she 'd seen the results of it , of a tinker 's divorce , and this man killed this horse and threw his wife on top of it and that was him divorced . |
| 19 | George , the driver of the Bletchley train , collected his pound on arrival at Bletchley . |
| 20 | The main figure in the story is Konrad Lorenz , who began his work on animal behaviour in about 1930 . |
| 21 | After he reversed his decision on retirement , Silverstone 's switchboard was jammed with ticket inquiries for the following summer 's Grand Prix . |
| 22 | DETECTIVES hunting a man whose wife and two sons were murdered on the Bergerac island of Jersey discovered his body on wasteland yesterday . |
| 23 | He urged his horse on home , and for the first time that day it responded by breaking into a trot for a few yards , until it decided that it was more comfortable to walk . |
| 24 | He delivered his dissertation on time , was awarded his doctorate , and was lucky enough to obtain a lectureship in the Comparative Literature Department at the University of Suffolk , ‘ the last new job in Romanticism this century ’ , as he was wont to describe it , with justifiable hyperbole . |
| 25 | In modern parlance , Hobhouse placed his emphasis on cognition and was discussing the evolution of cognitive capacity . |
| 26 | He folded up his uniform , placed his helmet on top , boots by the side , marched across the parade ground and handed them in to the quartermaster . |
| 27 | He had come in early , not having been to bed , and placed his information on Coffin 's desk . |
| 28 | He thought that he lost his hold on sanity for a time then ; he knew , later , that the black despair and the agony of loneliness had closed about him fully , and for an unmeasurable time while his reason spun wildly out of control . |
| 29 | One lost his life on duty with an Arctic convoy , the other — Andrew — took over the running of the business as soon as he was demobilised . |
| 30 | Steven lost his job on Christmas Eve . |