Example sentences of "he [verb] on [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has such great familiarity with the keyboard that when it is hidden for him by a cloth spread over it , he plays on this cloth with the same speed and the same precision . |
| 2 | But he reneged on that promise and said he would wait for a message from God . |
| 3 | Imagine how much time and effort would be required if each speaker had to establish the denotation of each term he produced on each occasion of use . |
| 4 | But er , he he hopped on one day and er had a talk with him and so on and took my temperature and pulse and that , this , that and other , he said well I 'll call again he said , when I 'm by , but he never did ! |
| 5 | He capitalizes on this discovery by observing that certain editions of the English Primers from C.1530 onwards also contain Savonarola 's soliloquy on Psalm 1 , ‘ Infelix ego , thus supplying Byrd ( directly or indirectly ) both with his words and with an English ambience to an ostensibly purely foreign text that the composer exploited in his chosen manner of setting . |
| 6 | He sits on some plastic institutional sofa . |
| 7 | He insists on personal attention every time , no matter how trivial the issue . |
| 8 | He was deeply worried about Berenice , and for a fleeting moment she was envious of the love he lavished on another woman . |
| 9 | ( He failed on this occasion . ) |
| 10 | And he got up and he got on another bed ! |
| 11 | Despite the chill he caught on New Year 's Day 1934 while watching a game at Bury , Chapman decided to go to Sheffield the next day to watch the Wednesday , Arsenal 's next opponents at Highbury . |
| 12 | So he plastered on pink paint — but forgot to get planning permission first . |
| 13 | So he plastered on pink paint — but forgot to get planning permission first . |
| 14 | After his speech today , we still do not know where he stands on that matter — not on the draft to which he was referring but on the principle of extended majority voting . |
| 15 | It is so similar to the language that he used on previous timetable motions that I do not know why he does not take a tape and mime to it . |
| 16 | I was asked in the Straight Talking video last December — and I am still amazed at the number of people who believe that he questions on that video were stage managed , which they were n't — when morale would improve . |
| 17 | Spurs , unbeaten in six games , expect striker Gordon Durie to play with stitches in the head wound he sustained on international duty with Scotland . |
| 18 | Next he jumped in the air with his feet together and his knees bent , then he knelt on one knee while she leapt into the air . |
| 19 | He appealed on national television for patience , and on Jan. 26 promised a rescue plan for the economy . |
| 20 | I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for trying to answer the question , but can he improve on that answer and tell the House clearly whether a Labour Government would or would not have the fourth boat ? |
| 21 | Sarah said sarcastically , but he dropped on one knee and put his hand on his heart . |
| 22 | He dropped on that maddening , tattered square of dirty white like an eagle on a lamb . |
| 23 | Sterling was given an office at the Department of Trade and Industry , where he advised on industrial policy , and had a big say in plans for the future of broadcasting . |
| 24 | But why did he feel that there was something more , and why was n't he acting on that instinct , the way that he 'd always acted ? |
| 25 | ‘ I bet he sighed on that journey from the court to the prison , over the Bridge of Sighs , ’ she smiled . |
| 26 | He climbed on one side of the desks , stood on tiptoe , and , forcing up the skylight , eased his head through into the icy December wind . |
| 27 | During the course of a week , his nursery teacher gave him a simple task once a day and noted the time he spent on this task . |
| 28 | He was vice-president of the Royal College of Pathologists and of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and he served on many university and Health Service committees as chairman . |
| 29 | Then he served on several Government committees of enquiry or review as well as engaging in a little more political manoeuvring than had been his habit . |
| 30 | He served on numerous Home Office and Ministry of Health committees , on the clinical research board of the Medical Research Council and as chairman of the Central Midwives Board in 1967 . |