Example sentences of "on his [adj] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Presumably Mr Newman 's mind was on his upcoming Bologna trip , maybe even on Risotto alla Vitale , or he would have swatted this vulgar solecism right out of the ground . |
| 2 | He was dismissed by Widnes referee David Campbell in the 36th minute for a high tackle on his ex-team-mate Andy Ruane . |
| 3 | Even without the benefit of stereo , Toscanini 's NBC seconds sound glorious , as do Klemperer 's , antiphonally disposed , on his 1957 EMI recording . |
| 4 | Drawing on his seventh Marlboro of the afternoon , his top lip arches into its semi-permanent M-shape with its legs splayed out making his mouth look unfairly petulant and pissed off . |
| 5 | Goran Ivanisevic , last year 's beaten finalist , starts against Jonathan Stark an American who failed to win on his only Wimbledon appearance 12 months ago . |
| 6 | Previous work centred on his adopted Gloucestershire encouraged the city boy gone west to expand his ideas |
| 7 | At work and play : Christine Michaeledes and Rocky , left , of Great Leighs , watching the sheepdog trials while Brian Bourn , above , of Little Baddow , gets to work on his 1924 Firequeen Burrell steamroller at the Essex Young Farmers ' Show |
| 8 | When he left , with his green and tomato boxes heaped on his Selected Ash , they nodded affably from behind the issue desk . |
| 9 | The dusts of hell , Cadalora miraculously escaped injury after getting rammed by Evelyn , rushed back to the pits , jumped on his other NSR and took pole position |
| 10 | He duped The Sunday Times into believing the Australian tycoon Alan Bond had spied on his rival Robert Holmes a Court and a senior director of Lonrho . |
| 11 | The sunlight glinted on his discreet SDP lapel-badge . |
| 12 | Indeed , in the interval of a gig on his 1986 UK tour , a disgruntled punter was heard to remark : ‘ If I 'd wanted something this cerebral on a Friday night , I 'd ‘ ve stayed at home and read Proust . ’ |
| 13 | He had three further drives for Lotus in 1969 : in South Africa he was sixth on the grid and dropped out with damaged gears ; on his first Nürburgring , he qualified twelfth and fell victim to a shunt on the first lap — one of his very rare accidents , for Mario has a finely honed sense of doing things the safe way . |
| 14 | ‘ There speaks the man who drove us here at such breakneck speed that I began to take pity on his poor Ferrari 's engine . |
| 15 | But this year John Major 's elder brother Terry is missing out on his annual Butlin 's holiday . |
| 16 | JOHN HENDRIE aims to heap more misery on his former Leeds colleague Vinnie Jones at Ayresome Park today . |
| 17 | Doyle called Bodie on his small R/T . |
| 18 | It is on this building , and on his long-demolished Eaton Hall , Cheshire ( 1675–82 ) , built for Sir Thomas Grosvenor [ q.v. ] , that any assessment of his work must rest . |
| 19 | Two great , but quite contrasting , literary loves manifested themselves early on , both of which were to have an influence on his later Doctor Who career . |
| 20 | He played Henry V in February 1949 on his beloved BBC radio , the home of the Word and poetry and all that mattered . |
| 21 | Meanwhile , he was writing and acting , but still he was dogged by the need to continue working in cheap exploitive films , in between do-it-yourself repair jobs on his beloved Karmann Ghia out on Stanton 's front lawn ( like a massive brake-job to save fifty dollars ) . |
| 22 | Between 1960 and 1970 there was no more successful caddie than Tip Anderson : three victories — one of them a spectacular triumph with Tony Lema on his beloved St Andrews links , and a second place in the centenary , also at St Andrews . |
| 23 | The men who built the Belle in 1959 : including centre , Manager Joe Franklin , on his left Bert Kirby , Body-shop foreman , and right Stanley Holmes the Rolling Stock Superintendent . |
| 24 | Fooled , he let her in , and she ran straight to his jazz records and whipping off her court shoe brought the heel down on his favourite Blossom Dearie . |
| 25 | An unpaid bill on his last Volvo car . |
| 26 | His unerring instinct told him his company had stumbled across something special and he released ‘ I Should Be So Lucky ’ on his own PWL label . |
| 27 | But David Pratt , photographer , has gone off it since he travelled half way round the world 's trouble spots unscathed to be battered and mugged on his own Glasgow south side doorstep . |
| 28 | ‘ He 's got a rather grand name but we simply call him Billy , ’ said dad , who would n't let go of his famous foam mallet with which he bashes kiddy guests on his long-running TV-am show , Wacaday . |
| 29 | Another Oxford graduate , but from the lower middle class , Jones had apparently the right socialist credentials , but his activism centred on his local south-London Labour Party . |
| 30 | It ‘ is n't a patch ’ on his old Aircoupe , he feels ! |