Example sentences of "he [verb] on the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ My ole man got upset an' 'e told me ter get rid o' the bloody fing before 'e got 'ome from work ternight. 'E works on the trams , yer see , ’ the woman explained . |
| 2 | Anything that would pay enough to live and allow him to remain on the headland to carry on the campaign . |
| 3 | This allowed him to go on the offensive , including on issues that Dr Cunningham devoutly wished would evaporate , like that cause célèbre . |
| 4 | Jeremy Guscott snatched his 15th try in 24 internationals , Dewi Morris pounced behind the Springbok scrum for his fifth in 11 when Garth Wright 's put-in squirted out too quickly and Carling wrapped it up when two Springboks panicked under an Andrew bomb , allowing him to fall on the ball . |
| 5 | He threw himself at me and I jumped to one side , leaving him to fall on the deck . |
| 6 | Before he left , the Society for the Improvement of Prison Discipline asked him to report on the treatment of convicts in Van Dieman 's Land . |
| 7 | The Society for the Propagation of Christian Knowledge asked him to report on the work of its schools at the same time . |
| 8 | The Society for the Propagation of Christian Knowledge asked him to report on the work of its schools at the same time . |
| 9 | She watched him kneel on the floor and , taking a deep breath , she switched off all sensitivity to close her lips over his wrinkled anus . |
| 10 | In an argument no doubt intended to be attractive to Manchester 's merchants and employers — local abolitionists had specifically asked him to write on the impolicy of slavery and the slave trade — he declared that freedom produced cheaper labour than slavery . |
| 11 | Dot sat herself cross-legged on the bed and watched him perched on the chair by the window , blinking and twitching and fidgeting but never looking her way , then seeming to fall asleep and looking quite young , younger than Mr Brown anyhow , and certainly not at all like Sally 's dad who 'd been to Burma and eaten rats . |
| 12 | I then asked him to comment on the extent to which recommendations to the Senior Management Team contained in the report appeared to have been implemented . |
| 13 | Then meeting him walking on the Heath . |
| 14 | I would no doubt see him walking on the cliffs with an ancient spaniel at his heels . |
| 15 | Her mother , Lavender , had fallen in love with a scholarly man called Frederick Legh when she had met him walking on the Moor . |
| 16 | To start off Changez 's career in the grocery business , Anwar instructed him to work on the till , where you could get by with only one arm and half a brain . |
| 17 | Gould took the opportunity of taking Lear with him on this ornithological grand tour , and at some point managed to enlist him to work on the Birds of Europe with Mrs Gould . |
| 18 | Then I come along and finds him sleepin' on the floor here like a big bebe an' I cover him up . ’ |
| 19 | However , as Akiskal has no data to enable him to elaborate on the processes involved or the interaction of the contributing factors , his model does not yet have any practical value . |
| 20 | She said the others left , but then outside Brandon punched the person he had threatened in the restaurant leaving him dazed on the pavement . |
| 21 | ‘ Taste our pain , ’ hissed Dashwood , gripping Farrell 's chin , forcing him to chew on the strand of flesh . |
| 22 | Did you train him to wee on the thingie now ? |
| 23 | Take him to play on the Breck — he 'll shown you where . |
| 24 | Ginny left him brooding on the past in front of a game show on television . |
| 25 | To Alex Harbury 's chagrin Riley would not let him work on the prison release dates story and sent him to interview a Girlie winner . |
| 26 | Terry Terry we 've been keeping him waiting on the line a long time good morning Terry . |
| 27 | To his relief the producers did n't want him to pile on the pounds . |
| 28 | I saw him like on the right , on the path and I goes I goes what you do I goes gon na be sick . |
| 29 | French television showed him lying on the station platform with the toilet wrapped around his arm . |
| 30 | The workhouse master was called to Connolly 's cell and found him lying on the floor . |