Example sentences of "he [vb past] 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 hopped on the first plane back to Germany . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ Any sightings of Jessamyn ? ’ he asked on the open channel . |
| 6 | " Are you " he choked on the dry words , began again . |
| 7 | He led on the easy bits , followed and pushed on the worse sections . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | turn the crane round one way then the other and he got on the same lever but today they got , cos they got big lovely cranes where they stand there with four levers , four controls they 've got and it goes up and down . |
| 10 | ‘ Of its mode of nidification ’ , Gould wrote of the nightjar he found on the lower Namoi , ‘ I can speak with confidence having seen many pairs breeding during my rambles in the woods … |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Sanchez cocked his head — a parody of listening ; he drew on the joint and held his breath . |
| 13 | He drew on the first cigarette for eight years , nearly choked , and wheezed : ‘ First today , anyway . |
| 14 | Now he concentrated on the mysterious murders in the forest . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Instead he concentrated on the unofficial Ford Workers ' Combine , which bypassed the official union structure dominated by the Transport and General Workers ' Union . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 ’ . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | When Christian Steiner took some much-discussed photographic portraits of Karajan in 1972 , he reported on the apparent remoteness and introspection of the subject . |
| 23 | He also lived at Bridge of Weir , and on his way home through Paisley , late at night , he stopped on the old bridge . |
| 24 | He stopped on the top step to look down at her , and there was no mistaking the mocking glitter in his eyes now . |
| 25 | Alan Charleson , 52 , of Southport , Merseyside , was mowed down by a Romanian car as he stopped on the Hungarian border . |
| 26 | He crashed on the main ‘ Route 7 ’ Speke Road in Ditton , Widnes , after offering to give 17-year-old Donna Jackson a lift home to Runcorn when she missed her last bus . |
| 27 | He practised on the western circuit , where Thomas Creevey [ q.v. ] found him ‘ most amiable , occasionally most boring , but at all times most upright and honourable ’ . |
| 28 | Called to the bar ( Inner Temple ) in 1873 , he practised on the Western circuit . |
| 29 | As he turned on the hot-water tap and got out the dish detergent , Hank abandoned the idea of going back to his garage . |
| 30 | Unfortunately he turned on the wrong tap , which gave hot water instead of cold . |