Example sentences of "[subord] he [vb past] [pron] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jarvis opened the case he had brought on the vestibule floor , carried the typewriter into Remove , where he put it on one of the desks , and took his clothes upstairs . |
| 2 | Wesley made little progress with agricultural labourers because they were tied into the rigidities of the traditional social order , although he blamed it on the stolid stupidity of the peasantry , but in many mining and manufacturing villages Methodism throve . |
| 3 | On a celebrated occasion in Wales a county court judge sitting in a civil case in Bridgend had not completed the case when the train was due to leave , so he continued it on the train and gave his final judgement in the station-master 's office at Llantrisant . |
| 4 | He was in a fix — he had bought two papers and merged them together , and I was n't around , I was in New York , and I did the logo for him in a hurry , but I did n't have time to design a newspaper , nor was it the kind of thing for which he could pay a big design fee , so he described it on the phone and then he faxed me some pages of the existing papers , and I said well what you have to do is look at the old London Times and do that . |
| 5 | Once he congratulated me on my gang . |
| 6 | One 911 owner once remarked to me that he had n't been terribly impressed by his car until he took it on a racetrack . |
| 7 | It was like he had something on his mind the whole time . ’ |
| 8 | as if he had something on his mind . |
| 9 | She looked at him thoughtfully , wondering if he had something on his mind . |
| 10 | I would n't be at all surprised if he insured you on his household policy along with his antiquities , paintings and Persian rugs . ’ |
| 11 | No I know Chris told me cos he saw him on the morning at the garage then he . |
| 12 | So anyhow , money 's that , he , cos he said summat on the Monday night . |
| 13 | Cromwell 's foreign policy has been called out-of-date , because he based it on the bellicose anti-Catholic and anti-Spanish feeling of the reign of Elizabeth . |
| 14 | And she would have to leave whatever she was doing to sit in with him while he briefed her on what he intended to do , and why . |
| 15 | He wheels the kind of u-turn he 's been longing to do since he saw it on Hill Street Blues and he roars up to the entrance . |
| 16 | Chanel 's legendary studio is now occupied by Lagerfeld and the same people from the photographic sitting with the addition of Gilles Dufour , Lagerfeld 's long-time right-hand man at Chanel , various Chanel employers such as Victoire de Castellane , in charge of accessories , and the British Kirsten Woodward who has made Lagerfeld 's hats since he discovered her on a lightning trawl through Hyper Hyper some years ago . |
| 17 | TWO screaming children threw cups of water over their burning father after he set himself on fire . |
| 18 | He had to put archers and javelin-throwers of his own up all the climbable trees before he had them on the run , and lost a dozen men to no purpose . |
| 19 | Michael Ramsey took Eden 's letter into the chapel but knew what his answer would be even before he put it on the altar . |
| 20 | Moments before he set himself on fire , Mr Chittenden phoned the Daily Post 's office in Chester , asking staff there to go to the United Friendly offices in Chester 's St Werburgh Street . |
| 21 | There was a certain speculation in her glance now when she looked at him ; she listened when he advised her on her investment portfolio , and — increasingly — she took his advice . |
| 22 | He had noticed the same man several times during the day , culminating about 5.40pm when he noticed him on the corner of Cross Street and Friar Street . |
| 23 | What happened to the rest of them when he left them on Epping 's still rustic station , at the extreme eastern end of the Central Line , was their business or misfortune . |
| 24 | Returning to my first meeting with Vincent , Arthur Cheyney naturally became my hero , especially when he took me on a trip from Ipswich to Parkeston Quay , which completely sold me on the job and made me resolve to move heaven and earth to get on a cutter crew as soon as possible . |
| 25 | And Lloyd found , in a milieu still heavily influenced by the Communist Party , that he had little difficulty in outselling the Morning Star when he took it on the streets . |
| 26 | ‘ Agent Somerville , ’ he boomed when he heard her on the line , ‘ get after him . ’ |
| 27 | He once caught a pigeon , but it was mostly sparrows so small that , when he laid them on the embers to cook , they were ready by the time the feathers had singed and were hardly worth even sharing , except with the twins who insisted . |
| 28 | When he touched her on her elbow to guide her inside she very nearly snatched her arm away , only controlling the impulse at the last minute . |
| 29 | Even when he snuffed it on Mount Cavalry , he knew he would live again . ’ |
| 30 | Occasionally , when he turned it on it was good , but this was rare . |