Example sentences of "he [verb] on the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Smuts 's own notes for the great speech he made on the occasion of the dinner in the Royal Gallery ( see above ) of which over 1 , 000 , 000 copies were sold in the English language alone . |
| 2 | He pounced on the word . |
| 3 | He lived on the green did n't he , ? |
| 4 | ‘ Jim knew it , because he lived on the edge . |
| 5 | ‘ Jim knew it because he lived on the edge ’ |
| 6 | David Nicholson says he lived on the end of the racecourse for 22 years and his father lived there longer than that … for him Cheltenham is the best three days racing anywhere in the world and he loves it |
| 7 | here 's the cup team … the injury to Marcus Hannaford means Jerry Perrins is called back … he plays on the wing … and with skipper Ian Smith playing for the BaBas … |
| 8 | Singling out The Forest and the Fire , which he laid on the pillow ready , he left the rest in a pile on the floor . |
| 9 | Then he checked on the car , took the long walk back to his serviced apartment , and spent a restless night staring at the stain patterns on his ceiling . |
| 10 | He plunged on the bomber and raked it from tail to nose ; then let his dive carry him under it and pulled up in time to plant a burst in its belly before climbing into a half-roll which brought the next plane almost within range . |
| 11 | Will he comment on the idea of reducing speed limits to that level ? |
| 12 | As the right hon. Gentleman is talking about matters in which there may be joint agreement , and as he has visited Langbaurgh and Hemsworth in recent days , will he comment on the fact that both the Labour party candidates for those constituencies have invested in newly privatised industries ? |
| 13 | Can he comment on the co-operation between the Province and the Republic in marketing the whole island of Ireland to ensure that even more overseas visitors come to that beautiful country ? |
| 14 | He turns on the air-conditioner . |
| 15 | Vic sighs , hits the Off button on the clock , switches on his bedside lamp ( its dimmer control turned low for Marjorie 's sake ) , gets out of bed and paddles through the deep pile of the bedroom carpet to the en suite bathroom , making sure the connecting door is closed before he turns on the light inside . |
| 16 | ‘ The way he turns on the television as soon as he walks into the room drives me nuts , ’ she says . |
| 17 | Then why the hell did n't he knock on the door ? |
| 18 | And still , after Crime and Punishment , the idea of a confession novel or story tugs at the edge of Dostoevsky 's vision , and continues to do so for the rest of his life in the form of The Life of a Great Sinner which he planned on the scale of War and Peace , but which never got written though it fed previous material into his novels of the seventies , and especially Karamazov at the turn of the next decade . |
| 19 | ‘ It 's an unexpected and welcome bonus , ’ declared Tom , happily , when he passed on the news . |
| 20 | This view was supported by the medical staff whom he consulted on the matter . |
| 21 | And also of course he goes on the building sites he 's still wearing a suit . |
| 22 | He tries to manufacture the shot with the 5 , but it does n't quite come off , and sure enough he goes on the Road . |
| 23 | Paul Aitken has always hankered after the bright lights , so at the age of forty-two he 's handing over his business to his staff while he goes on the road to promote his record . |
| 24 | In 1903 he married Rosecleer Alice Amelia Blanche from Totnes , Devon , whom he met on the voyage to Australia . |
| 25 | We had recently begun to shelter a young man who had deserted from the Italian army in the south and had somehow managed , with the help of various Italians whom he met on the way , to reach Fontanellato . |
| 26 | He supported himself by painting the portraits of the distinguished people he met on the way , and in Japan he went off alone to live among the aboriginal Ainu . |
| 27 | He sits on the edge of the bed where Kate lies fenced in by bolsters and proffers it smilingly . |
| 28 | He sits on the bed for twenty minutes , sweating and smoking . |
| 29 | Each has a chief executive who , though he sits on the board of nearly 600 directors , is not accountable to the head of the group . |
| 30 | The occupational therapist may supply portable handrails in the early stages after the stroke , so that the patient has some support on each side while he sits on the toilet , although these should not be used to lean on when standing up or sitting down . |