Example sentences of "he on [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But a new administration in 1807 sent him on a futile mission to conciliate Denmark , following the British bombardment of Copenhagen . |
| 2 | The one thing Phil is still learning is how to cope when batsmen get after him on a good pitch . |
| 3 | As preparation for his new appointment the BDA sponsored him on a two-year course at Bulmershe College , now Reading University , for a certificate in youth and community work , which he duly obtained . |
| 4 | The trial of Marion Barry , 54 , Mayor of Washington DC , ended on Aug. 10 when , after eight days of deliberation , the jury convicted him on one count of possessing cocaine but acquitted him on a second charge of possession . |
| 5 | The component parts of the multiplier have been agreed as four years for the period up to the age of nineteen when he leaves school and thirteen years thereafter Mrs doctor and Mr Paul 's headmaster agree that Paul needs an enabler at school during school hours , that is classroom hours , an enabler is in effect a classroom assistant who works with him on a one to one basis to ensure that he can participate in lessons . |
| 6 | It suddenly crossed my mind that perhaps he thought I had come to see him on a professional level , that I was in need of spiritual help or whatever . |
| 7 | On Friday , 10 March , by which time Pons was becoming convinced that their hopes were at last being confirmed , Ron Fawcett , the US editor of the Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry , called him on a personal matter . |
| 8 | During his time as Party chairman , many constituency officers had been to see him on a similar errand . |
| 9 | Owen 's reaction touched him on a sore spot ; and it was made all the sorer by an angry feeling inside him that there had indeed been incompetence , Egyptian incompetence , that he , Mahmoud , was ultimately responsible for it — and that there was absolutely nothing that he could in practice do about it . |
| 10 | Cleo had subsequently met the young De Belving several times at a squalid inn on the outskirts of the Burrows in order to have sex with him on a greasy , flea-invested bed in an upper room . |
| 11 | Rufus and Mary lay quite near him on a candlewick bedspread Rufus had found in one of the spare bedrooms . |
| 12 | But do n't worry : I 've put him on a separate floor . ’ |
| 13 | But they started him on a new course of treatment yesterday and he 's begun to respond . ’ |
| 14 | She gave the king 's son honey to eat , and played to him on a golden zither , whose strings she brushed with a silver feather . |
| 15 | ‘ Would n't want to meet him on a dark night , ’ breathed Arthur , trying to make light of the incident . |
| 16 | To wit : Syrett , beautiful but doomed , cut his hand on a wine glass at a party and , after ignoring his doctor 's advice to avoid climbing , did irreparable damage to his tendons which started him on a tightening spiral of alcoholism and eventual suicide . |
| 17 | All three were found guilty as charged , save that the defendant had pleaded guilty to count 4 after a ruling against him on a legal submission . |
| 18 | After all , I had ‘ covered ’ the Boys ' Parliament sessions and other church activities for him on a free lance basis , and I was sure he knew I was determined to take up journalism as a full-time and life-long career . |
| 19 | Former Rovers boss Don Mackay took him on a free transfer from Gijon to Ewood Park two seasons ago . |
| 20 | Then they peeled back the bedcovers and laid him on a crisp sheet , covering him from the waist down with another sheet . |
| 21 | Many who are with him on a daily basis support him because he is their only hope . |
| 22 | The answer is probably to run him on a left hand track where such antics would not cost him so much ground . |
| 23 | She would smile at a man , lead him on a few steps , then turn cold . ’ |
| 24 | Claudia lost her breath ; this was intolerable — not only had she been forced to accompany him on a wild chase after Garry Turner , but she was being subjected to what amounted to sexual harassment . |
| 25 | out if him on a weaker size I will do , but |
| 26 | There can , after all , be more than one possible explanation why a witness may retract evidence given by him on a previous occasion ; and , as must have been contemplated in Reg. v. Donat , 82 Cr.App.R. 173 , one possibility may be that it is the later retraction , rather than the earlier evidence , which is not worthy of belief . |
| 27 | He slurped as noisily as a ravenous dog , mopping up what was left with hard crusts of bread which Father Peter shoved before him on a wooden platter . |
| 28 | ‘ We 're always on the look-out for stories of good performance and good practice somewhere in the group , ’ says Jones , who writes all the copy in a job taking him on a growing number of foreign assignments . |
| 29 | He said : ‘ All I know is that we 've signed him on a playing contract for four years and we 're delighted to have him back . |
| 30 | She had already discovered to her cost just how strongly attracted she was to him on a physical level . |