Example sentences of "he [verb] on the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He pounced on the Scottish selectors for not picking him for the 4 × 100 metres relay team for Edinburgh and , so it said in one of the tabloids , he was now ready to meet Linford Christie . |
| 2 | And if he lived on the other side of the world she would think nothing of flying to meet him , she said . |
| 3 | He plays on the right wing and has pace as well as skill . |
| 4 | Perhaps I could be Eric 's stunt man , standing in when he turns on the flash dangerous stuff that terrifies the defenders in his wake and makes them have a go like David Burrows did . |
| 5 | The boy who kicks his football close to windows can be reprimanded more easily if he was one of those to draw up the rule against doing so and if he agreed on the appropriate punishment beforehand . |
| 6 | When items are faulty , not delivered on time , or more rarely where Ian has by his own fault succeeded in botching an order , then he goes on the defensive . |
| 7 | While retaining a determinative role for the former , he insists on the relative autonomy of the latter : these have their own modes of existence , their own inertia , their own time-scales , such that we have to speak of a ‘ necessary reciprocity ’ between economic/social and cultural/ideological levels . |
| 8 | However , he insists on the pressing need for government to improve social welfare provision . |
| 9 | When the Theogonist accompanies the Empire army into battle he rides on the mobile War Altar of Sigmar , a huge chariot which carries the sacred altar surmounted by a huge statue of a griffon . |
| 10 | ‘ Any sightings of Jessamyn ? ’ he asked on the open channel . |
| 11 | " Are you " he choked on the dry words , began again . |
| 12 | He led on the easy bits , followed and pushed on the worse sections . |
| 13 | So the guy who 'd been fired took one of the cars from the agency and he got on the wrong road ; they 'd forgotten about curfew , probably they were too drunk and they did n't stop when a South Vietnamese barrage challenged them . |
| 14 | The actual proportion in which each individual holds his wealth depends upon the relative yields he receives on the whole range of assets , and upon his individual tastes and preferences . |
| 15 | Millet took the bus to the pre-war inelegance of the College close to the Thames towpath and blessed the warmth that he found on the upper deck . |
| 16 | Though he lives on the French-Italian border , most of his frauds are perpetrated from Amsterdam . |
| 17 | He lives on the common |
| 18 | Sanchez cocked his head — a parody of listening ; he drew on the joint and held his breath . |
| 19 | Now he concentrated on the mysterious murders in the forest . |
| 20 | He concentrated on the cricketing angle rather than the racial one , emphasizing Worrell 's greater experience and status and highlighting the errors of judgement he felt Alexander had made . |
| 21 | Before he concentrated on the actual scene of the crime , Dalgliesh always liked to make a cursory survey of the surroundings to orientate himself , and , as it were , to set the scene of murder . |
| 22 | Instead he concentrated on the unofficial Ford Workers ' Combine , which bypassed the official union structure dominated by the Transport and General Workers ' Union . |
| 23 | He concentrated on the little man instead , pictured breaking Gleeson into pieces , imagined him crumbling like polystyrene , or starved of air , deflating — ‘ Inside , Gleeson , ’ ordered one of the screws . |
| 24 | Instead , amid a trenchant attack on the Government 's record , he dwelt on the vital role of trade unions in the fight to restore workers ' rights . |
| 25 | There is no danger of too many coaches spoiling the broth as far as the Hong Kong RFU is concerned though : Simpkin will have all the power he needs on the playing side . |
| 26 | On the British side there was a string of adverse comments on French performance and attitudes from newspaper correspondents ; although the Daily Telegraph correspondent was not being particularly sensational when he reported on the unnecessary brutality of the French and concluded ‘ The solution of the problem of rule in Indo-China will depend primarily upon French ability to exercise tact and conciliation ’ . |
| 27 | Larry covers ‘ working-class sport for the working classes ’ , one of his classics being the time he reported on the local-government elections in Westminster . |
| 28 | When Christian Steiner took some much-discussed photographic portraits of Karajan in 1972 , he reported on the apparent remoteness and introspection of the subject . |
| 29 | He also lived at Bridge of Weir , and on his way home through Paisley , late at night , he stopped on the old bridge . |
| 30 | He stopped on the top step to look down at her , and there was no mistaking the mocking glitter in his eyes now . |