Example sentences of "he on the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Leese claimed that his ‘ martyrdom ’ had been achieved against the wishes of the Jury who had acquitted him on the serious charge . |
| 2 | Grant felt a hammer blow strike him on the right breast and a searing pain in his right bicep . |
| 3 | Set him on the right path with a good education . |
| 4 | This appears to put him on the right side of the new rulers , even if Steaua were answerable to one of Ceausescu 's brothers . |
| 5 | And then you 've got him on the right hand side look making cheese , this is brother again , that 's not brother . |
| 6 | But James said his son had needed some firm , fatherly advice to keep him on the right track as a teenager . |
| 7 | They laid him on the cool grass and bathed his forehead . |
| 8 | She sat down beside him on the cool grass . |
| 9 | French superstar Zafonic was pulled out of the St James 's Palace Stakes when owner Prince Khalid Abdulla decided not to risk him on the rain-softened surface . |
| 10 | He was in midstream when the clouds that had covered the moon parted and drifted away , and before him on the distant bank he saw the gracious , massive shapes of Strata Marcella pastured like sheep in their silver meadows . |
| 11 | But Gloucestershire 's decision to place him on the restrictive List One of available players has been initially supported by the TCCB registration committee . |
| 12 | On March 1 , 1991 , Bolger personally telephoned US President Bush to congratulate him on the allied victory . |
| 13 | Jane Kennedy ( Labour ) pressed him on the recent article in the Independent , which stated that ministers had privately said they intended to issue new guidelines to family doctors to tighten up the eligibility criteria for the benefit . |
| 14 | We arranged to meet him on the early train at Skipton the next day and off he went to his bog . |
| 15 | I walked towards him on the stony track |
| 16 | From time to time he would take it out and read it , but no others came ; and he had to be content from time to time with the sight of Dinah above him on the lighted stage , playing her part superbly , her breasts outlined by scarlet netted silk . |
| 17 | Alongside him on the front row was Nikki Lauda . |
| 18 | Again , Brian Harley hit a less-than-perfect drive , but his two-iron across the angle of the dogleg put him on the front edge of the green . |
| 19 | You would n't mind if he married your daughter , but you would n't want to put him on the front page . |
| 20 | We ourselves heard this voice that came from heaven when we were with him on the sacred mountain … |
| 21 | Then , when he sought to take the oath , the House itself refused and excluded him on the dubious ground that , being an atheist , he could not swear . |
| 22 | Putting down his carrot , Hazel ran across , scrambled up the bank and joined him on the bare ground under the low , close boughs . |
| 23 | He followed their swift line as together they swung low over the water and landed , the splash of their coming rippling softly back to him on the still air . |
| 24 | They cast a crown before him on the briared floor . |
| 25 | I looked around for Kalchu and eventually found him on the far side of the fire talking to a group of men , some of whom I recognized as being from Chaura and from Chhuma . |
| 26 | It was of no consequence ; Garland knew every step of the way and Mitch trotted ahead , pursuing an erratic course as he nosed out the rich odours brought to him on the moist air . |
| 27 | Eliot produced a single page of notes from his pocket which he placed before him on the small table and brooded over for a while ; but when he started , he managed to pack in , during 45 minutes or so , a great deal of sound sense on the subject of drama and especially on the relation of drama to religion . |
| 28 | When Simon the Trapper parted from him on the great north ride the Friar loosened the rope that girdled his waist , dragged up his gown a score of inches to free the movement of his lower legs , re-tied his girdle tightly , wiped his hands on the none too clean garment and taking hold of his staff set off up the highway in pursuit of his sack , of Marian , and of the verderers . |
| 29 | I trust that at some stage I will have the opportunity to tax him on the curious proposal that legislation which increases the wage bill of companies does not necessarily increase the costs of those companies and therefore can be regarded as having nil effect on their competitiveness . |
| 30 | He had to — they were doubtless watching him on the closed-circuit television . |