Example sentences of "he [vb past] on a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | was getting really cross and was beginning to call the police over she just produced a card and they just throw it and said this means nothing to me , this means nothing to me , cover your head and she just laughed at them and walked away , but he , he pounced on a Filipino girl who was actually wearing jeans , and socks and said her jeans were too short |
| 2 | He had a growing circle of friends , almost entirely non-aristocratic , both in Worcestershire and in London , both inside and outside the House of Commons , and he entertained on a moderate scale . |
| 3 | There can be no doubt that he planned on a great scale . |
| 4 | ‘ Yes , Slane , ’ he agreed on a little choke of laughter . |
| 5 | His two front teeth shattered , and he choked on a sudden spurt of blood . |
| 6 | Kondratiev 's basic proposition was that the advanced capitalist economies as a whole ( although he concentrated on a selected few only ) go through cycles of booms and slumps in a regular pattern . |
| 7 | Because he concentrated on a single target while the Russians played their world-wide game , they sometimes failed to notice where he was pulling their fingers . |
| 8 | He played on a toy wooden horse in the waiting room and Dr Alison Atkinson warned him when she spotted him trying a surgery door . |
| 9 | Only the thickness of the crossbar prevented Booth from scoring after five minutes when he turned on a Paatelainen pass . |
| 10 | ‘ Dear Bertha — I see you 're still your same sweet and gracious self , ’ he commented on a sardonic note . |
| 11 | Stephen Brown survived because he landed on a narrow ledge about 18ft below the cliff edge at Sandy Bay , Exmouth , Devon , Charles Barton QC , for the prosecution , said . |
| 12 | Finally his life was saved when he landed on a narrow ledge 25ft from the bottom of the pit . |
| 13 | Between 1945-46 , he served on a military mission to Washington . |
| 14 | He served on a British Association committee which arranged the collection and documentation of several thousand geological photographs . |
| 15 | Shortly afterwards , he served on a high court of justice for the trial and condemnation of James , first Duke of Hamilton [ q.v. ] and others . |
| 16 | From 1893 he served on a departmental committee to review the collection and publication of factory statistics , and from 1895 on a committee of inquiry into anthrax among wool sorters . |
| 17 | He always rejected the hellraiser label but he began living up to his image when , in 1953 , he embarked on a drunken affair with Vivien Leigh while filming Elephant Walk in Ceylon . |
| 18 | At the same time he embarked on a great literary work , Syntagma musicum , in three volumes : I , historical , published at Wittenberg in 1615 ; II , ‘ concerning instruments ’ , 1618 ( with a supplementary volume of illustrations , Theatrum Instrumentorum , in 1620 ) ; and III , 1619 , in which , as in the preface to Polyhymnia , he gives the most copious information as to the heterogeneous ways in which these great Italian-mannered but profoundly German compositions may be performed-with or without continuo , with contrasting groups of instruments , voices soli or ripieni , and so on . |
| 19 | Like a mountaineer conquering his own nightmare , he embarked on a two-month personal encounter with the unknown — the working class , who populated his childhood memories as a spectre of fear and loathing . |
| 20 | He embarked on a new career in 1864 when he took a lease of mineral property between Ton Pentre and Treorchy in the upper Rhondda valley , not hitherto a coal-producing area . |
| 21 | He embarked on a whistle-stop tour of mother and toddler groups , childcare facilities and a number of junior schools . |
| 22 | He embarked on a whistle-stop tour of mother and toddler groups , childcare facilities and a number of junior schools . |
| 23 | He began on a new plan and Endill tried to ask him what he was up to but every time he approached , Mould shouted , |
| 24 | So , in his practical advice and activity , as in his theology , he relied on a correct understanding of principles . |
| 25 | In 1977–80 he worked on a photographic mural for a Technical Highschool at Delft . |
| 26 | Calculating that neither Elizabeth nor the Scottish parliament would favour a Catholic marriage , he settled on a Protestant princess of Denmark . |
| 27 | He pulled on a worn denim shirt but refrained from buttoning it , so that his gorgeous chest was still visible , still reminding her … |
| 28 | Then he pulled on a well-worn jacket of aerated leather and strolled out of the flat , with Tal in a box on one shoulder and a duffel over the other . |
| 29 | He pulled on a charming smile , inspired once again — or so it appeared to Dexter — by another private joke which only he could understand . |
| 30 | He pulled on a bright yellow weatherproof jacket over his thick jersey and moleskin trousers , slid his long feet into rubber boots and collected some keys from the study . |