Example sentences of "[vb pp] on he [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shamji , who was also ordered to pay £28,960 costs , had asked the Appeal Court to reduce the sentence imposed on him at the Old Bailey on October 30 . |
| 2 | A corresponding duty is imposed on him in the case of lettings of offices and shops ( Offices Shops and Railway Premises ( Hoists and Lifts ) Regulations 1968 ( SI No 849 ) ) . |
| 3 | The ombudsman claims that the jurisdiction and duty to investigate conferred and imposed on him by the scheme enables and requires him to investigate and determine complaints in relation to valuations made by employees of a building society of properties to be charged to the building society to secure further advances to an existing borrower from that society . |
| 4 | He became mayor for the first time in October 1261 and was reappointed in October 1262 , years in which the king dominated London , having thrown off the restrictions imposed on him by the Provisions of Oxford in 1258 . |
| 5 | The pace of Norman McGladdery , eligible to play having appealed a seven-game ban imposed on him by the Ulster Branch , Colin Allister and Lee Tumilty caused problems throughout whereas the skills of Jimmy Kirkwood and Daniel Clarke at the other end were stifled by a resolute defence . |
| 6 | There is no doubt that in the 19th century the courts did consider the adequacy of consideration in restraint of trade cases , but more recently in M & S Drapers v Reynolds [ 1957 ] 1 WLR 9 Hodson LJ said " … although the position of the employee has to be considered , the court will not inquire into the adequacy of the consideration or weigh the advantages accruing to the covenantor under the contract against the disadvantages imposed on him by the restraint " . |
| 7 | They were rather unpleasantly self-satisfied for a start — and this was not incompatible with the impression made on him by the man himself at their meeting . |
| 8 | We had indeed , and Denis was in a filthy mood because his motorbike had died on him on the way into Cambridge and he had had to push it five miles back — and he had been taking his temper out on me ever since lunchtime . |
| 9 | Things had changed since the 1920s when Lionel Hedges , a Tonbridge and Kent cricketer and Oxford blue , had dismissed ‘ a seedy looking middle-aged gentleman [ who ] called on him on the morning of a match . |
| 10 | He has no power to order discovery of documents or the attendance of witnesses or to make any order as to costs ( unless such power is expressly conferred on him by the lease ) ; and if he dies or becomes incapable or unwilling to continue , it is doubtful whether another expert could be appointed under the lease . |
| 11 | Becky 's dark eyes fixed on him for the first time . |
| 12 | Lepine was knocked unconscious by the impact and a few seconds later his head was hacked from his shoulders by a flurry of coupe-coupe blows rained on him in the driving seat by the surviving coolies . |
| 13 | She could not believe she had rounded on him in the way she had . |
| 14 | At that lunch in the Oxford and Cambridge he was in the sombre mood that had descended on him with the signing of the Munich Agreement . |
| 15 | It was a move forced on him by the weakness of the rest and seemed certain to end in failure when Ludwig started his chase with 10 miles left . |
| 16 | He did n't much approve of animal experimentation in the first place , so I 'd guess that it was forced on him by the sponsor . ’ |
| 17 | He has just lost his farm — in a sale forced on him by the Kenya Government ( ‘ Kenyatta 's Chief Bodyguard wanted it for himself ’ ) . |
| 18 | According to Washington , the president regrets the decision , and says it was forced on him by the intransigence of the Russians . |
| 19 | Although he still speaks bitterly of the pressure put on him by the authorities , in fact they never succeeded in obliging him to send the children to school ; he was not even fined as he would have been in Britain . |
| 20 | In his role as the world 's Central Banker , a position bestowed on him by the dollar 's reserve currency status , he can not please all of the people all of the time . |
| 21 | Later it was suggested that he had received help from dissident Englishmen who preferred Border ruffians of like mind to their own unpopular Warden ; but nobody could deny the rescuer the sobriquet bestowed on him in the ballad — ‘ The Bold Buccleuch ’ . |
| 22 | Mattox 's campaign presented her silence on this subject as an expression of guilt , although the drugs issue backfired on him in the final days of the campaign when witnesses claimed to have seen him smoking marijuana in the early 1970s , a claim which he vehemently denied . |