Example sentences of "he [vb -s] 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 | That gave him dibs on the scav , not that there would be much worth looting in this sandhole . |
| 3 | here 's the cup team … the injury to Marcus Hannaford means Jerry Perrins is called back … he plays on the wing … and with skipper Ian Smith playing for the BaBas … |
| 4 | He turns on the air-conditioner . |
| 5 | Vic sighs , hits the Off button on the clock , switches on his bedside lamp ( its dimmer control turned low for Marjorie 's sake ) , gets out of bed and paddles through the deep pile of the bedroom carpet to the en suite bathroom , making sure the connecting door is closed before he turns on the light inside . |
| 6 | ‘ The way he turns on the television as soon as he walks into the room drives me nuts , ’ she says . |
| 7 | And also of course he goes on the building sites he 's still wearing a suit . |
| 8 | He tries to manufacture the shot with the 5 , but it does n't quite come off , and sure enough he goes on the Road . |
| 9 | Paul Aitken has always hankered after the bright lights , so at the age of forty-two he 's handing over his business to his staff while he goes on the road to promote his record . |
| 10 | He sits on the edge of the bed where Kate lies fenced in by bolsters and proffers it smilingly . |
| 11 | He sits on the bed for twenty minutes , sweating and smoking . |
| 12 | Each has a chief executive who , though he sits on the board of nearly 600 directors , is not accountable to the head of the group . |
| 13 | The occupational therapist may supply portable handrails in the early stages after the stroke , so that the patient has some support on each side while he sits on the toilet , although these should not be used to lean on when standing up or sitting down . |
| 14 | The bed height should allow the patient to touch the floor with his feet when he sits on the side on the bed , although his hips should be slightly above the level of his knees . |
| 15 | He sits on the grass |
| 16 | Despite his generally holistic approach to questions of meaning and questions of justification at the non-observational level , he insists on the sort of asymmetry between observational and non-observational that is characteristic of the foundationalist . |
| 17 | If he persists on the line of pre-trading expenditure , then the provisions of s 401 , ICTA 1988 should be pointed out to him , as this section headed ‘ relief for pre-trading expenditure ’ gives , effectively , the same end result as a deduction under normal Sch D principles . |
| 18 | Lindsey sleeps in Richard 's bed and Richard he sleeps on the settee . |
| 19 | He sleeps on the floor , rises at 4.10am , is in his own words ‘ fanatical ’ about dusting , and has taken a vow of chastity and celibacy . |
| 20 | ‘ There is plenty for him , ’ observed Dorothy , ‘ wherever he looks on the carpet . ’ |
| 21 | Just where 's he craps on the floor , you have a massive pong when that happens . |
| 22 | By asserting that " a text is interpretable to those who can , under the prevailing circumstances , build around it a text world — or scenario " ( p. 9 ) he focusses on the relationships between text and the reader 's response and the text and the world created by the text itself . |
| 23 | He lies on the sofa , she climbs on to him . |
| 24 | Now he lies on the beam |
| 25 | I mean he he lies on the side of it and Sarah |
| 26 | But he lives on the hope , and that 's enough . ’ |
| 27 | He lives on the garden level because he suffers from gout . ’ |
| 28 | He writes on the virtues of travelling light — his ‘ pochade ’ box always with him . |
| 29 | Ajax Amsterdam coach Louis van Gaal was saved from a demoralising home defeat by two players he has on the transfer list . |
| 30 | Use them as signalmen between his army and any ships he has on the coast . |