Example sentences of "he [verb] [pron] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | 'E told us on Sunday at the sermon . |
| 2 | and then we , get my money , I 've er over a hundred pound , then , go out , play a round whatever and then later I 'll phone up Roddy , tell him to meet me on Saturday and he |
| 3 | tell him to meet you on Sunday , aha |
| 4 | My comments on his work were valuable only as an irritating pretext which permitted him to lecture me on Art . |
| 5 | ‘ To stop him bullying you on your birthday . ’ |
| 6 | Cora-Beth had told him the night before that there were letters and cards awaiting him from England , all of which had ‘ Not To Be Opened Until 5 Jan. ’ on the envelopes , so she had extracted a promise from him to leave them on his bedside table until this morning . |
| 7 | You asked him to leave your on the |
| 8 | Hashim Ciftci told the Today newspaper that he shot cameraman Nick della Casa and his assistant Charles Maxwell after they hired him to guide them on an expedition to film fighting between the Iraqi army and Kurdish rebels in the mountains of northern Iraq . |
| 9 | I wanted him to do something on his own . |
| 10 | The doctor was concerned enough about him to trail him on a journey that Thomas then made to London Airport . |
| 11 | Instead of selling him your goods , you let him have them on consignment . |
| 12 | Diana , patron of British Red Cross Youth , had asked him to brief her on Somalia and war-ravaged Bosnia . |
| 13 | so I told him to keep them on the back of that door . |
| 14 | This was his first mainline trip and he was grateful to Sam for his advice and also for him taking him on this trip . |
| 15 | To start the game give the first player the bottle or jar and ask him to hold it on his head . |
| 16 | Bathsheba could say no more , and weakly let him put it on her finger . |
| 17 | In one week I listened to the English boy singing the praises of my dark colouring and frizzy hair , felt him kiss me on the cheek with obvious pleasure whenever I cooked a meal and when I came in from work , or when we sat watching television together , and found him waiting for me at the end of the road when I was late back for some reason . |
| 18 | And so , through playing his stuff so many times , hearing him play it on record and on bootlegs and actually hearing him sing live — once — it 's got to the point where it 's hard to say whether this is my natural voice or if it 's something I learned . |
| 19 | It was n't the sort of long-term depression that had settled on him when his wife persuaded him to take her on holiday to Marbella . |
| 20 | Gifford , though he gave advice from his own experience , told him to take nothing on trust , but ‘ to cry mightily unto the Lord that He would convince him of the truth thereof ’ : he must work out his own salvation . |
| 21 | Barenboim has identified the First Symphony of the 54-year-old Corigliano as a work of great courage , and it was equally brave of him to take it on tour . |
| 22 | She asked him to test her on fielding positions , and he marked out on the sand the two sets of stumps and the ten fielding positions around them . |
| 23 | She was aware of him settling himself on the floor in the corner by the bench , then stiffened when he picked up one of her finished pieces . |
| 24 | The previous incumbent , Poul Hartling — a former Danish Prime Minister — was provided with a special fund inside the ‘ education budget ’ by the Danish government for him to upgrade himself on his international travels . |
| 25 | Sir , — When Malcolm Rifkind was made Minister of Transport I wrote a letter to him congratulating him on his appointment , expressing the hope that he would be a success in his job and asking him to instruct his Civil Servants to concentrate their efforts more on the railways of this country rather than on the roads . |
| 26 | He told me how , when he had first moved there , the local MP had written to him congratulating him on his climbing and mentioning that he had had a one-legged uncle who climbed . |
| 27 | As the crew neared the still floating aircraft they spotted the pilot nearby , they approached him to bring him on board but he pulled a pistol out and was about to fire when the coxswain shot him . |
| 28 | Fat women and bald-headed men standing in the doorways of tiny shops make jokes to him which he ca n't quite understand , and shout ribaldries to each other about him clapping him on the shoulder to indicate they 're not serious , and cutting slices of cheese and sausage for him to try . |
| 29 | From the moment he modelled himself on Mussolini , he resembled nothing so much as an actor touring the provinces in a play which someone else had made a success of in London . |
| 30 | He laid everything on it and stood back to look , like someone in an art gallery sizing up a surrealist exhibit . |