Example sentences of "he [verb] [to-vb] on [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When money became scarce , he tried to go on welfare , but the woman official said , ‘ What 's your problem , Mr Webb ? |
| 2 | She told the jury : ‘ I said to him , ‘ You are a married man , ’ but he tried to get on top of me . |
| 3 | Beyond that he has to rely on hand tools — planes , chisels , reamers , scrapers and the odd bicycle inner tube ( ‘ great for holding a psaltery in shape while working on the joints ’ ) . |
| 4 | Is this what he wants to hear on Radio 3 ? |
| 5 | However , the scope of a fiduciary 's duties in any given circumstances will depend upon the nature of the relationship and what precisely he undertakes to do on behalf of his customer . |
| 6 | A common interest in cricket brought him in touch with William Bateson [ q.v. ] , with whom he began to collaborate on inheritance in 1903 , first in mice and later in peas , fowls , and rabbits . |
| 7 | Born in Hackney , East London , Pickering showed talent as a decathlete during national service in the King 's Own Regiment , but on leaving the army he began to concentrate on coaching . |
| 8 | Why 's he hope to go on holiday then ? |
| 9 | Once it would have been greeted with disbelief , and even now it is bound to jolt those who watched the original , anarchic troupe of strolling players perform works like Joe 's Drum or Wee Red Hen in community venues or miners ' welfare halls , and who followed with greater or lesser sympathy John McGrath 's attempts to identify a Scottish theatrical idiom for the mixture of radical politics and popular culture he aimed to put on stage . |
| 10 | He appeared to speak on behalf of others in his platoon , young men who had just left boyhood behind , as they crouched hunched over cleaning rags and oil , stripping down their SA-80 rifles and machine guns in the cramped confines of their bunk room . |
| 11 | The cold of the ground slowly seeped through Riven 's bedroll to chill his back , and he edged closer to the fire , sick of the aches in his bones and counting out in his mind the hours before he had to go on watch . |
| 12 | The nerves on the first night at Taunton had been bad ; so had the understudy nerves of the first night at the Variety ; but they were nothing to the sheer blind terror that attended Charles Paris as he waited to go on stage in the role in which Michael Banks 's career had been so tragically cut short the night before . |
| 13 | However , Barbarossa was still suspicious of the leader of the Guelphs , and when he resolved to go on crusade he ordered that Henry must either follow him to the Holy Land or return to exile in England for a further three years . |
| 14 | That would have happened too — if Danny had n't left his C.B radio rig switched on when he left to go on hight shift . |
| 15 | He wanted to go on crusade at once , but his father would not let him . |
| 16 | Komarek said on April 9 that Reichel had been relieved of his posts because he wanted to concentrate on election work for the Czechoslovakian People 's Party , of which he was a member . |
| 17 | But he refused to comment on speculation that it was the home of a former girlfriend of Mr McEvoy . |