Example sentences of "he [verb] the [noun] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Again he made the journey on 4th with the ‘ Miller 's cart ’ to prepare . |
| 2 | He made the officers on another occasion agree to give a woman 6d ( 2½p ) a week , " touching in particular her being a poor sickly woman , as also her husband having no work to do " . |
| 3 | He made the claims on prime-time TV , in his first interview since August when he was accused of molesting his and Mia 's adopted seven-year-old daughter , Dylan . |
| 4 | He made the Poles on his territory pay double the level of taxes paid by Germans , encouraged the Poles to sell up and move out and refused to rent out Royal Estates to Poles , declaring that he would rather see Danzig merchants working Pomeranian soil . |
| 5 | Toman slipped on the edge of his own box in trying to find Prudhoe , and instead he laid the ball on a plate for Craig Maskell to fire home . |
| 6 | Toman slipped on the edge of his own box in trying to find Prudhoe , and instead he laid the ball on a plate for Craig Maskell to fire home . |
| 7 | He laid the rule on the girl 's chest and peered at the calibrations . |
| 8 | He checked the watch on Georgia 's wrist . |
| 9 | Will he congratulate the BMA on its wholesale condemnation of the latest Labour party smear leaflet that has been distributed at the Langbaurgh by-election ? |
| 10 | He savoured the weasel on his palate for seconds , and then breathed her into his lungs . |
| 11 | And as to Spasov and being saved — ‘ Il me semble que tout le monde va à Spassof ’ — there is still some comic devillife in him as he quotes the Saviour against his bible-selling saviour because she is taking thought for the morrow , and as he turns the gospel on its head with ‘ Happiness does n't pay me because I start at once forgiving all my enemies . ’ |
| 12 | The King was in no position to make such a decision and , in any case , Baldwin had already decided to meet Parliament when he met the King on 10 December , and so the King did not even have to persuade him to adopt what he believed to be the correct course . |
| 13 | This has been criticised on the ground that an accidental escape caused by the forces of nature is within the risk that must be accepted by the defendant when he accumulates the substance on his land . |
| 14 | ( Ferdinando said he expected the profit on Mr Landor 's rooms was so enormous it covered the cost of the rest more than double . ) |
| 15 | In the SAS he undoubtedly learned rather more than that , including the survival skills which he has had to draw on so often in expeditions which have not always gone according to plan.He has been a full-time explorer since he was 25 and ‘ like everybody else , in every career , you do n't retire until you have to , ’ he says.His CV reads like a non-stop Boys Own adventure — shooting up the White Nile in a hovercraft , parachuting on to the Jostedalsbre Glacier and negotiating more than 4,000 miles of Canadian and Alaskan rivers.Between 1979 and 1982 , he circumnavigated the world on the Transglobe Expedition , becoming one of the first men ever to reach both the North and South Poles overland . |
| 16 | In furtherance of these aims he represents the MMRC on the Academic Standards Committee ( ASC ) . |
| 17 | ‘ What are you grinning for ? ’ he asked the figure on the next branch . |
| 18 | Do you have problems with obesity , he asked the steward on the Desert Wind , the train so called not because of dietary angst but because it crosses the Mojave on the way from LA to Chicago . |
| 19 | He tried , but failed , to kill several other ANC people living in exile across the Lesotho border , and in an armed attack , using submachine guns and hand grenades , he led the attack on Joyce Diphale 's house in Gaberone , Botswana , which left its intended victim unscathed . |
| 20 | The uniformed copper on the door told me he was only hanging about until he got the word on his ‘ talking brooch ’ radio that the forensic boys had n't forgotten anything and would n't need to come back . |
| 21 | The fire had spread to the fuselage and reached the cockpit by the time he got the wheels on the ground and jumped out . |
| 22 | He replied that it did n't matter a damn about that as long as he got the fish on the bank . |
| 23 | How would he explain the mud on his tyres , he wondered ? |
| 24 | He flung the helmet on the ground and Philip grabbed it . |
| 25 | Perhaps there 's hope for me yet , he thought as he unrolled the fillet on the cutting board . |
| 26 | As he read the evidence on primitive societies , where of course there was far less economic specialization , social cohesion was of a very rudimentary kind . |
| 27 | He read the message on the back and his face changed . |
| 28 | He read the name on the side of the boat . |
| 29 | In his biography Changing Patterns ( 1968 ) , Sir Macfarlane Burnet mentions his great interest in this section when he read the book on board ship from Australia to England in 1925 . |
| 30 | His evidence was that he read the report on the night that he received it and was — as others would have been — shocked to find that the parliamentary statements relating to the government 's support for the Nigerians were demonstrably false . |