Example sentences of "he [verb] [verb] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He hates sitting on the beach ; does nothing but moan . ’ |
| 2 | But he avoided sitting on the sofa next to her although she 'd left space . |
| 3 | Like thousands of others , he became fixated on the actor Montgomery Clift , going several times to see him in Red River Valley and detecting , accurately , homosexual tendencies behind Clift 's portrayal of the sensitive masculine ideal . |
| 4 | We started the gradual process of bringing him back into work , hoping that he had been through all his disasters in one go : first he cut himself and had to be stitched , and then he got kicked on the hock . |
| 5 | He got cut on the hand . |
| 6 | Yo yo it was sort of like he got he got hit on the got run over |
| 7 | I think she undoubtedly added to the intrigue erm and difficulties of her court , erm one example , she was always getting people that she approved of , getting them plum jobs , and one example was one of the governors of Oxford , the most unpopular , one Sir Arthur Aston , who was so unpopular that he got attacked on the street , and then had to have a body guard paid for the city council , and then was curvetting on his horse in front of some ladies , and fell off and broke his leg so badly that he had to have it amputated , so from then on he had a wooden leg , erm that meant he had to stop being governor , and later on in the war , a countryman was coming into Oxford , and asked the sentinel ‘ who was governor still ’ , and by that time a friend of prince Rupert 's Sir William Leg was governor , and the answer was ‘ one Leg ’ , and the countryman 's reply was ‘ pox on him , is he governor still ? ’ . |
| 8 | He tried to improve on the work of the Polish physicist Gabriel Fahrenheit , but did not succeed — largely , it seems , because of the difficulty people found in following his instructions on how to construct his thermometer . |
| 9 | She lay watching his face as he tried to concentrate on the complexities of the novel . |
| 10 | Wray is first seen being chauffeur-driven in his limousine and from that moment until he lies dying on the floor of a Pullman car with a bullet in his stomach and uttering the words ‘ Never call a sucker ’ his performance for Daugherty was one in which he never stepped out of character and never eased his ‘ taut , cat-like , steel-wire tenseness ’ . |
| 11 | Terry Yorath , the Wales manager , is delaying his selection until he has checked on the fitness of Barry Horne , the Southampton midfielder , who has had a knee injury . |
| 12 | Dan Graham has always been about geometry , at least in so far as it informs the quasi-architectural environments he makes ( have you yet been delightfully disoriented by the series of glass-walled , open-to-the-sky rooms he has constructed on the roof of the DIA Art Center 's Chelsea outpost ? ) . |
| 13 | To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what recent representations he has received on the subject of Scottish government ; and if he will make a statement . |
| 14 | To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what recent representations he has received on the future of the Scottish regiments and battalions ; and if he will make a statement . |
| 15 | To ask the Secretary of State for Health what representations he has received on the contracting out of hospital ancillary services ; and if he will make a statement . |
| 16 | To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what representations he has received on the proposed council tax . |
| 17 | To ask the Secretary of State for Wales what representations he has received on the conduct of children 's homes in Gwynedd . |
| 18 | To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what representations he has received on the subject of taxation of child care ; and if he will make a statement . |
| 19 | To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what recent representations he has received on the Fenchurch Street line . |
| 20 | To ask the Secretary of State for Employment what recent representations he has received on the subject of the introduction of a statutory payroll levy . |
| 21 | That is absolutely all he has to say on the matter . |
| 22 | Posts with the Trade Union Congress include regional branch chairman and he has served on the national executive . |
| 23 | At l'Estaque , Braque was working from nature but one feels that the forms in his painting have not been suggested by those of particular landscapes but rather that he has imposed on the natural scene his own austere , angular , almost geometrical form of vision . |
| 24 | He has turned on the lights , the heat and the television . |
| 25 | He has called on the Department of the Environment 's Planning Office to re-think existing policy in a bid to encourage more new business start-ups in the area . |
| 26 | He has called on the Scottish Secretary , Ian Lang , to ensure that the Scottish Office or the Department of Trade and Industry urgently investigates the condition of the Scottish manufacturing base . |
| 27 | He has stayed on the contract/corporate side of the fence ever since because he feels that it suits his style and temperament . |
| 28 | It has been said that if each soil conservationist stopped the movement of one grain of soil for each word he has written on the topic , the problem of soil erosion would disappear . |
| 29 | He has written on the issue to the new Fisheries Minister , Gillian Shephard , claiming that certain technical requirements in the Act could make it impossible for local fishermen to secure an adequate allocation of fishing days Royal crystal challenge STAFF at Welsh Royal Crystal , Rhayader , were commissioned to manufacture and supply the specially designed bowls which will be presented to each concert winner in the preliminary rounds , as well as goblets for each competitor , in this year 's Cardiff Singer of the World Competition at St David 's Hall . |
| 30 | Parsons outlines five stages of cognition , which he has based on the scientific work of Kohlberg . |