Example sentences of "he have [verb] on [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has to rely on three small robots , or drones , Huey , Dewey and Louie , whom he programs to help him . |
| 2 | To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what recent representations he has received on low flying ; and if he will make a statement . |
| 3 | He has played on Panamanian nationalism to exploit resentment at US interference in Panamanian affairs and met charge with counter-charge . |
| 4 | As the educated urban elite abandon Mr Collor , following a series of media exposes of his political record , he has relied on continued support from rural voters at rallies of up to 70,000 . |
| 5 | Instead , he has relied on great fitness and stamina to enable him to keep sprinting in at full pace , and speed of arm and perfect balance to capitalize on the momentum ; combined with an unrelenting desire to keep on taking more and more wickets , it has all proved irresistible . |
| 6 | He has served on several Law Society committees , was Chair of the Young Solicitors Group , and Chair of the International Relations Committee from 1983 to 1987 . |
| 7 | Unlike previous education secretaries , he has built on recent changes and amassed a far wider range of powers before setting his plans in motion . |
| 8 | The table he has built on this plan — only a mock-up as yet — is in two halves , each with a half circle cut out . |
| 9 | Now I 'm against that and I 'm therefore against I regret to say what the Noble Lord , Lord said , and I 'm extremely sorry to see that he has moved on this particular matter er because th there is no case , that has been really made out for this . |
| 10 | Now he has called on other schools in the town to unite in a crusade against violence and drug abuse . |
| 11 | Now he has called on British Rail for a second time to step up safety and end the easy access to the East Coast main line . |
| 12 | PREMIER John Major is so worried this weekend 's EC summit will end in disaster he has called on bitter enemy Francois Mitterrand for help . |
| 13 | He has struggled on social security to bring up Louis with girlfriend Debbie Blount . |
| 14 | All have been exposed to his scarifying eye and his audacious judgments ; he has projected on all his volatile wit and a searching wisdom . |
| 15 | He has haggled on that number with the Home Secretary and been beaten down … |
| 16 | But he has considerable respect for Derry , a side he has encountered on numerous occasions to date during his speel in charge of Down . |
| 17 | Product of York and North Yorkshire Schools representative teams , he has signed on profesional terms and has played in the reserves . |
| 18 | Long-serving Steve Lawson , a former Cleveland Park track record-holder , has been racing since 1974 but he has proved on numerous occasions that he 's a hard man to beat on the tricky Middlesbrough track . |
| 19 | He has enlarged on these in a privately circulated note . |
| 20 | Yesterday the Torbay coroner said 14 out of 32 suicides this year had recently been released from the unit , which he has criticised on several occasions since it replaced more secure psychiatric hospitals that have been closed by the area health authority . |
| 21 | Since Everest he has concentrated on small , alpine style trips , climbing Rimo II in 1988 with Nick Kekus , and Makalu II with Victor Saunders in 1989 , although they failed in their main objective of traversing Makalu . |
| 22 | He has put on 4½ stone , and at 13 stone admits he is now overweight . |
| 23 | He has worked on financial aid programmes in developing countries of Africa and Asia . |
| 24 | His mates had all scored and he inexplicably had n't , in spite of the money he 'd blown on all those lime-green cocktails for the bleached slag in the dress with all the red spangles . |
| 25 | The closest he came to exercise was to open one eye every so often , if someone entered the room , or to open both eyes , smile , and wag his tail as he 'd done on one occasion when confronted by a housebreaker ! |
| 26 | He 'd come for an evening 's entertainment and , though the food was good , he 'd reckoned on stronger meat . |
| 27 | He gave me the inside scoop on the Biggest Wave story : the thirty-five-foot mountain he 'd ridden on 5 January 1985 . |
| 28 | Suffice to say that the young medic concerned must have wished he 'd picked on any person in the history of Equity rather than your hyper-ventilating authoress . |
| 29 | Actually , he 'd started on that before six and I think he 'd finished when I left at six-fifteen . |
| 30 | He wished he 'd thought to put shoes on before he 'd started on this piece of nonsense ; feet felt like blocks of ice . |