Example sentences of "he [vb past] on [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was an admission that he was growing old ; vet the brief appearance he made on stage , with his white beard , long robe and crown , was telling enough , and would never be forgotten . |
| 2 | He liked proper meals , he lived on liver or chops , his bait would come out of the family allowance and I 'd not eat during the day , then eat the same as him at night . " |
| 3 | In staunch Irish fashion , he laid on transport for Fox 's supporters to be ‘ bused ’ into Oxford on . |
| 4 | He succeeded on lap 17 and immediately closed on Mansell who , in turn , was continuing to harass Prost . |
| 5 | He checked on Rock Hardy . |
| 6 | Dominic would like to get in touch with a couple he met on holiday in August at Innerlaken in Switzerland , who come from Derby . |
| 7 | We already know from Frank 's testimony on Monday how violent and conscienceless he became on temazepam . |
| 8 | If he got on top of his weeds and successfully kept them under one could be sure he was a good farmer . |
| 9 | No one understands how he got on stage and how he got near the president . |
| 10 | He got on stage at his party with a black Strat and a motley rock crew called Miss World . |
| 11 | But he maintained that was not the purpose of the composite he moved on behalf of the Tottenham constituency party . |
| 12 | In later years , he concentrated on freelance boxing reporting . |
| 13 | In 1967 he concentrated on car racing full time . |
| 14 | In a third he concentrated on serfdom . |
| 15 | After he resigned the editorship of the JMS in 1878 , he concentrated on writing ( eleven books in all ) , medico-legal work , and a successful office practice in London . |
| 16 | In 1911 he concentrated on radium refining on an industrial scale , initially in Runcorn in Cheshire , and from 1915 until his death , in Balloch on Loch Lomond . |
| 17 | Phelips died ; Robert Carr , Earl of Somerset [ q.v. ] , was disgraced ; and in 1626 he reported on Parliament to Sir Dudley Carleton ( later Viscount Dorchester , q.v . ) . |
| 18 | He experimented on pea plants . |
| 19 | Although he doted on steak , she decided she would study continental cooking , and produce something to surprise him . |
| 20 | He came on night duty . |
| 21 | He came on foot and in chains , an old , fine-looking man dressed in the usual black silk cloak with a white cloth wound round his head , stem and very dignified , to bow before the Empress before being led away . |
| 22 | Student He came on foot . |
| 23 | We were all elated when he came on board . |
| 24 | He woke on top of her , she might 've been a beach , he might 've been abandoned there by waves . |
| 25 | Five minutes later he flopped on top of me . |
| 26 | Almost as soon as he arrived on campus , he disappeared into a mass of wiring , flashing lights , bleeping tones and tens of metres of multicoloured printouts on endless rolls of chartpaper . |
| 27 | He arrived on time for his appointment and he was not kept waiting ; the receptionist introduced him at once . |
| 28 | Wilfrid withdrew to Ripon and , although he acted on occasion as bishop for Wulfhere among the Mercians and even ordained priests and deacons in Kent , he did not at this time exercise episcopal functions north of the Humber ( HE III , 28 ; Vita Wilfridi , ch. 14 ) . |
| 29 | He climbed on top of her and slid inside . |
| 30 | You should have seen him he climbed on top of a box last night to get to the telly . |