Example sentences of "his [noun sg] [verb] [verb] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He wondered if his Mum had fixed on the wallpaper with the Birds of Paradise for his new room . |
| 2 | His research has concentrated on the nature of language and the apparent fact that it is a social instrument , socially constructed and thus dependent upon language of curriculum justification ( see , for example , his ‘ The revolutions in philosophy and philosophy of education ’ , 1982 ) . |
| 3 | Lucille half stood , as if to reveal herself to Sharpe , but he had seen the Duke and , seemingly oblivious of the effect his entrance had caused on the ball 's guests , now strode between the tables to the Duke 's side . |
| 4 | Some of the sepoys were shot or cut down as they struggled to get over the possessions ' which stuck out jaggedly here and there ; a sowar pitched headless from his horse on to a silted-up velvet chaise longue ; a warrior from Oudh dived head first in a glittering shower through a case of tropical birds while a comrade at his elbow died spreadeagled on the mud-frozen wheels of the gorse bruiser . |
| 5 | His straw hat was balanced on his forehead , his jacket lay folded on the concrete beside him , and she noticed that he wore balding suede shoes and some form of club or regimental tie . |
| 6 | She looked around for somewhere to sit , but the bed looked bigger than ever in the cramped room and his jacket lay discarded on the only chair . |
| 7 | Dustin was fond of quoting Cicero 's phrase , which his father kept pinned on the wall beside his desk : ‘ Wise men are instructed by reason , men of less understanding by experience , the most ignorant by necessity , and beasts by nature . ’ |
| 8 | This was fortunate , since his father had served on the second high court of justice in February–March 1649 , which had tried and condemned James ( first Duke of Hamilton ) , Henry Rich ( first Earl of Holland ) [ qq.v. ] , and other Royalist leaders in the second civil war of 1648 . |
| 9 | Two main lines were carried on by Richard Chaloner , cooper , and George , the youngest son who inherited the cottage and smithy that his father had erected on a piece of waste land east of the church , together with the lease of 3 acres of land enclosed from Myddlewood . |
| 10 | In 1759 he was apprenticed to the civil engineer John Smeaton [ q.v. ] , for whom his father had worked on the new Eddystone lighthouse . |
| 11 | Conroy , unemployed , of Peckham , south London , said he did not mean to shoot anyone , claiming his finger had jammed on the trigger . |
| 12 | His firm has worked on the restoration of many historic buildings in Wales . |
| 13 | He identified so closely with this work — for what seem to me all the wrong reasons — that his interpretation tended to tremble on the edge of bathos . |
| 14 | The tenant having died , his daughter sought to rely on the provisions which would give her the right to succeed to the statutory tenancy . |
| 15 | When he eventually became an overnight star after fourteen years of hard labour in Hollywood , the seekers of his past came knocking on the doors of his tutors and former friends . |
| 16 | Then a businessman asked whether he should buy this and that stock his broker had recommended on the sly , and — after a moment of concentration — Kruger gave him the word to hold off , presumably making a mental note to sweep the market himself . |
| 17 | As the target had come out of the hotel , his hand had stiffened on the grip of the Ruger in the plastic bag and he had eased his weight towards the passenger door . |
| 18 | The Israeli flicked through the pages of photographs , sepia prints of Arab peasants and donkey-drawn carts clattering through the streets of a forgotten Palestine , until his thumb came to rest on a picture of workers inside a cavernous hall . |
| 19 | His ability to rationalise verged on the psychopathic . |
| 20 | Charles 's earliest memory is playing quietly on the floor with a train set while his mother sat sobbing on the edge of the bed , his father smiling weakly at him in a forlorn attempt to reassure his son that everything was all right . |
| 21 | A solicitor will generally be free to decide for himself whether or not to accept instructions from a client , though he must always bear in mind the statutory obligation not to discriminate against potential clients on the grounds of race , colour , sex etc ( see Chapter 3 ) and he must refuse to act or to continue to act in any of the following circumstances : ( 1 ) where his client seeks to insist on the solicitor conducting his case in a way which would involve some breach of law or professional regulation ; ( 2 ) where the client 's affairs are outside his professional competence ; ( 3 ) if he suspects that the instructions purporting to come from his client do not in fact represent the client 's wishes ; ( 4 ) where the solicitor is unable to obtain confirmation from the client of instructions received from a third person ; ( 5 ) where there is or is likely to be some conflict of interest involving the solicitor himself , his client , other clients ( present , past or prospective ) , or the firm ; ( 6 ) where the solicitor may be a material and not merely formal witness in any proceedings ; ( 7 ) where another solicitor has already received instructions which have not been formally withdrawn . |
| 22 | By the time the girl who had rung in response to his advertisement had arrived on the scene , the horse was already bridled and saddled . |