Example sentences of "he [verb] on [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I especially I do n't think so after after the very er impressive speech he made on Friday . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . " |
| 4 | In the same decade Peter Thompson was sent to an impoverished Wesleyan circuit in Broughton-in-Furness with six members and no chapel : he lived on sixpence a day . |
| 5 | United have splashed out ten thousand pounds on Andy Reece from Bristol Rovers … the first transfer fee paid by Greg Downs … he plays on sunday as does Gerry Harrison whose loan from Bristol City has now been extended to three months … |
| 6 | ‘ … his ear for melody and the intuitive grasp of counterpoint that is evident in the almost Baroque bass lines he plays on Beatles recordings serve Mr McCartney well here . ’ |
| 7 | Sorry folks but I hope Kelly has a stinker if he plays on Wednesday night for Big Jacks team . |
| 8 | In staunch Irish fashion , he laid on transport for Fox 's supporters to be ‘ bused ’ into Oxford on . |
| 9 | Time and again he laid on centres from which Ted Smith and then John Conner , our regular centre-forwards , were able to score . |
| 10 | He succeeded on lap 17 and immediately closed on Mansell who , in turn , was continuing to harass Prost . |
| 11 | On 1 September 1613 Elsynge was granted the reversion of the office of clerk of the parliaments , to which he succeeded on Bowyer 's death on 15 March 1621 . |
| 12 | He checked on Rock Hardy . |
| 13 | He checked on Tal , still sleeping soundly . |
| 14 | He centred on Read 's phrase ‘ evolution of poetry ’ and was particularly interested in the statement that ‘ the beginning of this study belongs to anthropology ’ . |
| 15 | Well , it makes a very good tale , only I do n't know if I could remember any of it ’ He beamed on Taliesin , and then said in an aside to Fribble that he had never yet heard of a Tyrian who did n't judge his wine remarkably well . |
| 16 | On one of his afternoon strolls ( mornings were for work , once he had completed his domestic chores laid down by Stella ) , he chanced on Bank Street , in the East End . |
| 17 | He swooped on Preminger who rebuked him for being drunk , raging , ‘ You ver drunk last night and you are drunk now . ’ |
| 18 | Eventually , he turns on Casby , and humiliates him in front of his rejoicing tenants . |
| 19 | SOUTHAMPTON defender Jon Gittens , who joined Middlesbrough yesterday on three months ' loan , has denied he reneged on Newcastle United last month . |
| 20 | He passed on Miss Jekyll 's admonition to his client . |
| 21 | BULGARIAN Nikolai Todorov will put 5,000 on the gate when he goes on trial tonight for Middlesbrough , writes John Wardle . |
| 22 | If he goes on trial we may as well all start looking for other jobs . |
| 23 | The 29-year-old British number one will have butterflies in his stomach when he goes on court but says : ‘ You never play well unless you are a bit nervous but generally I 've reacted well to the Davis Cup and I enjoy it . |
| 24 | It 's some guy called Harding and its his last work day before he goes on holiday . |
| 25 | He goes on number one do n't he ? |
| 26 | He goes on binges . |
| 27 | Dominic would like to get in touch with a couple he met on holiday in August at Innerlaken in Switzerland , who come from Derby . |
| 28 | He met on Sept. 16 with US President George Bush who repeated his government 's intention to recognize a government which emerged from free elections . |
| 29 | The candidature of Teannaki was supported by the outgoing President Ieremia Tabai , whom Teannaki included within the Cabinet which he announced on July 8 . |
| 30 | Lothar de Maizière , Prime Minister of East Germany in March-October 1990 , resigned on Sept. 6 as deputy leader of the Christian Democratic Union ( CDU ) and from all other party posts including chair of the Brandenburg CDU ( as of Nov. 21 ) ; he announced on Sept. 11 that he would also relinquish his seat in the Bundestag ( lower house of parliament ) from Sept. 30 . |