Example sentences of "he [vb past] on [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of the speeches he made on these occasions we have such various descriptions it is impossible to be sure what he actually said . |
| 2 | ‘ He realized on other assets and used the money to subsidize the business . ’ |
| 3 | And that is how he he he got on good terms with my mother again . |
| 4 | Prosecutor Nigel Godsmark said he preyed on 270 women over a three-year period . |
| 5 | He concentrated on economic issues , especially on American colonial affairs . |
| 6 | White House Chief of Staff John Sununu , to whom the President delegated much domestic policy responsibility while he concentrated on foreign affairs , came under strong conservative criticism . |
| 7 | The following are fairly typical : Diaries told of assaults on children ( in which the court heard that ‘ an unemployed kitchen porter from Leamington kept diaries setting out details of indecent assaults he committed on young children ’ ) or Jail for man who lured boys to factory . |
| 8 | Most recently he had been appointed director of the Centre for International Studies by Zhao Ziyang , where he advised on foreign affairs . |
| 9 | He believed on those grounds that he had a legal right to the tyres . |
| 10 | He walked on glistening pavements , across streets where the rain spat back from the tarmac . |
| 11 | The young Ernest , who grew older as the years passed by , attended a local school , and although energetic and successful in all school activities , he twice ran away from home , though he returned on both occasions . |
| 12 | He was described as clerk to Sir Edward Powell , a master of requests , in the earlier 1640s , and later in the decade he served on various commissions for Surrey or Westminster or both , including those for the assessment , the militia , and sequestrations . |
| 13 | As a prominent local man he served on many commissions in Nottinghamshire , including those for the subsidy ( 1512 , 1523–4 ) and musters ( 1513 , 1524 ) ; and he was sheriff in 1518–19 and 1526–7 , and JP from 1521 until his death . |
| 14 | He served on important committees and helped organize the United Colonies of New England , a confederation of the Massachusetts , Connecticut , New Haven , and Plymouth colonies . |
| 15 | In the 1970s , he improvised on single props in a room ; today , his work is more structured , more theatrical . |
| 16 | She was often forced to spend months apart from her husband as he embarked on long tours . |
| 17 | He relied on outside specialists for identification work but found time to produce his famous monograph on Carboniferous crustacea . |
| 18 | In the early stages of the Depression he relied on optimistic statements to keep people 's spirits up — " prosperity is just around the corner " he said in 1930 — and on gaining the voluntary co-operation of business leaders in maintaining employment and wages . |
| 19 | In 1971 Keith transferred to BNFL where he worked on many projects including the Waste Treatment Plant , Fuel Fabrication Plant , Salt Evaporation Plant and the Sludge Retrieval Project . |
| 20 | From boyhood he worked on local farms and became an itinerant Methodist preacher . |
| 21 | From 1843 he worked on marine engines with Robert Napier [ q.v. ] on Clydeside , doing installation work on four early Cunard liners . |
| 22 | In Fynn v IRC ( 1958 ) 37 TC 629 , the taxpayer , Mr Fynn , transferred investments to an Eire company in return for shares in the company which he settled on irrevocable trusts for his children . |
| 23 | On another occasion he was spotted by an opposing Derby County player lying drunk in the street the night before an important league match , a scene that he repeated on several occasions in London 's late-night jazz clubs . |
| 24 | He called on civil servants loyal to him to denounce subversive colleagues . |
| 25 | French Prime Minister Pierre Beregovoy claimed that the moratorium was intended as a gesture towards limiting nuclear proliferation , and he called on other countries to make " balanced reductions " in their nuclear arsenals . |
| 26 | From Ljubljana he called on ethnic Albanians in Kosovo to boycott the forthcoming elections in the Serbian-dominated new Federal Republic of Yugoslavia ( FRY ) , and also advocated the independence of Montenegro from the FRY . |
| 27 | In his acceptance speech , he called on industrialised countries to take steps to reduce worldwide demand for cocaine , he also ruled out pardons for drug traffickers , and said he 'd maintain extradition agreements . |
| 28 | He called on African leaders to respect universal democratic values , but to resist democratic models imposed from outside : " Like revolutions , which can not be exported , democracy must be home grown . " |
| 29 | He called on American scientists to dedicate themselves to this new national effort . |
| 30 | 20 But while he thought on these things , behold , the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a dream , saying , Joseph , thou son of David , fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife : for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Ghost . |