Example sentences of "he [vb -s] on the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He plays on the right wing and has pace as well as skill . |
| 2 | Perhaps I could be Eric 's stunt man , standing in when he turns on the flash dangerous stuff that terrifies the defenders in his wake and makes them have a go like David Burrows did . |
| 3 | When items are faulty , not delivered on time , or more rarely where Ian has by his own fault succeeded in botching an order , then he goes on the defensive . |
| 4 | When he goes on the one day in two years that something went wrong , that shows he 's doing a good job . ’ |
| 5 | While retaining a determinative role for the former , he insists on the relative autonomy of the latter : these have their own modes of existence , their own inertia , their own time-scales , such that we have to speak of a ‘ necessary reciprocity ’ between economic/social and cultural/ideological levels . |
| 6 | However , he insists on the pressing need for government to improve social welfare provision . |
| 7 | When the Theogonist accompanies the Empire army into battle he rides on the mobile War Altar of Sigmar , a huge chariot which carries the sacred altar surmounted by a huge statue of a griffon . |
| 8 | The actual proportion in which each individual holds his wealth depends upon the relative yields he receives on the whole range of assets , and upon his individual tastes and preferences . |
| 9 | They live in a political cowards ' Disney world where Tom is always chasing Gerry in an ever-decreasing circle of options while , outside in the real world , Bugs Bunny is having his tail shot off as he chokes on the latest political carrot . |
| 10 | ‘ He lives on the sixteenth floor of the RCA building . |
| 11 | Though he lives on the French-Italian border , most of his frauds are perpetrated from Amsterdam . |
| 12 | He lives on the common |
| 13 | There is no danger of too many coaches spoiling the broth as far as the Hong Kong RFU is concerned though : Simpkin will have all the power he needs on the playing side . |
| 14 | I think he starts on the tenth , I think he starts that that day . |
| 15 | But D Dave , Dave , Dave could not handle , in B E S , what he handles on the civil side . |
| 16 | Actually , a man greatly appreciates a woman who bears a lamp ; he depends on the feminine light more deeply than most men are willing to admit . |
| 17 | They know he acts on the personal authority of the Cardinal . ’ |
| 18 | He comments on the incorrect modelling of the airship going into great detail with regard to the number of ribs , panels , engine positions etc . |
| 19 | He concentrates on the negative aspects — reasonably enough , in present circumstances . |
| 20 | In recommending what Hilton calls " medeled liyf " to his noble lord , he calls on the earlier tradition of awareness of a fundamental harmony between these two conditions — both crucial to temporal life as exemplified in the Incarnation . |
| 21 | He appears on the Royal College of Surgeons ' registers only from 1828 to 1843 . |
| 22 | He pulls on the uniform trousers . |
| 23 | A risk-averse individual would only be indifferent between transacting on the forward market and transacting on the future spot market if the terms he expects on the uncertain future spot market were sufficiently more favourable than the forward market to encourage him to take the risk . |
| 24 | Looking at the formation into which the priests with the egg go , he focuses on the central Priest — the quarterback : |
| 25 | Perhaps he walks on the right side , with just the metal grid fence separating him from the rolling fields of graves — in no hurry , since there is no class for him to make . |
| 26 | If John , apart from the important reference in Chapter 3 , which we shall consider later , avoids the term Kingdom of God , he does on the other hand lay more stress than the other three Gospels on Jesus as King of Israel ( Barrett 1960:346 ) . |
| 27 | He remains on the Eastern Counties Committee and General Committee . |
| 28 | The most common disguise is that of the jongleur or menestrel ( within the fabliau tales there is barely any discernible difference in status or respectability between these two although conventionally it is supposed that the former is lower than the latter ) : a disreputable itinerant entertainer living , creditably , off his wits and his talents , but only too vulnerable , and given to wasting what he gains on the temporary pleasures of drinking and gambling in the taverns ; a social outcast but at the same time one called upon by the members of normal society , as Jouglet is , both to instruct the ignorant young man and to play for the villagers . |
| 29 | he perches on the ungiving sidewalk , shits |
| 30 | The purchases , together with the remedial action , should ensure that Martin Craddock , chairman and chief executive , can at least match analysts ' forecasts of £1.8m pre-tax when he reports on the 1989-90 year . |