Example sentences of "he [verb] [to-vb] on [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He paced his talk well , and his use of live models caught the attention , but he failed to capitalise on this by describing exactly what the models were demonstrating . |
| 2 | He has to rely on three small robots , or drones , Huey , Dewey and Louie , whom he programs to help him . |
| 3 | Two days earlier the Home Secretary had sent a minute to the Prime Minister explaining that he proposed to answer on these lines . |
| 4 | No problem here — Labour was sure of the answer , and Front Bench spokesperson Dr John Cunningham was so pleased and relieved that this time Labour was going to get it right , that when he rose to speak on 8th December in Standing Committee A , he repeated Labour 's position several times . |
| 5 | In deciding how much profit he wants to make on each item , and how much to mark up his prices , the retailer needs to consider many of the factors we looked at in Section 7 — the socioeconomics of the area , the needs of the typical customer , the competition , and so on . |
| 6 | I know that he wants to speak on Third Reading and no doubt he will make his point later . |
| 7 | Mr Clinton may say that he wants to concentrate on domestic policy until he is blue in the face ; the truth of the matter is that in a federal system such single-mindedness will not get him far , because most domestic policy is reserved to state and local governments . |
| 8 | With the glasses he seemed to put on another nature — his stern , cool attitude she had first noted , and felt unthreatened by . |
| 9 | On the night , the young soprano was so nervous that he made a fatal mistake : he forgot to put on any underwear . |
| 10 | NK : May I ask my Right Honourable friend what club he intends to use on this hole ? |
| 11 | He tends to pick on new people a bit at first to bring them into line . |
| 12 | He tends to ponder on such weighty matters in the bath or while gardening . |
| 13 | But he declined to comment on future plans for the Toledo-based factory , saying that managers at the Spanish subsidiary were responsible for that . |
| 14 | But he declined to comment on future plans for the Toledo-based factory , saying that managers at the Spanish subsidiary were responsible for that . |
| 15 | Part of his freight business was probably reputable enough , and maybe he needed to trade on that to get a job . " |
| 16 | The squire owned the entire parish , except one small farm , which he proceeded to buy on liberal terms from the yeoman who owned it . |
| 17 | She marked with satisfaction that he appeared to brood on that . |
| 18 | Trained in the French school of severe deductive logic , he preferred to rely on unassisted reason . |
| 19 | Yeah , I mean , he he tries to stay on random . |
| 20 | One got the impression that Mr Callaghan felt that he had to put on one side the normal practice of consulting only a small group of inner ministers on economic issues , and had to carry all the colleagues , all twenty-two , if he was to have a hope of carrying the party in the country clearly out of the crisis . |
| 21 | He had to put on some plaster so there were only three |
| 22 | He had to decide on some action . |
| 23 | Father used to do that , he would sit in the evening then and he had to scratch on this b it was a like a tin plate with a black sort of area to scratch |
| 24 | He said he 'd expire if he had to sit on that high stool much longer . |
| 25 | So he had to start on another one . |
| 26 | He continued to serve on increasing numbers of parliamentary committees until his death 26 March 1652 . |
| 27 | Schiller had demonstrated the danger of space heating sales before nationalisation and he continued to dissent on that issue within the BEA headquarters , backed by a genuine concern to advance scientific knowledge in this area . |
| 28 | SDLP deputy leader Seamus Mallon today warned that more IRA bombings were likely and the whole community should be alert , though he refused to comment on unionist security proposals . |
| 29 | He also began thinking about Rebecca Salmon and their bargain , but in the end his thoughts always returned to his father 's grave on a foreign battlefield and the revenge he intended to inflict on any German who dared to cross his path . |