Example sentences of "[pron] he [verb] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Goodridge was simultaneously an active member of the BDDA , which he served on the executive , as Treasurer of the pension fund and as a Vice-chairman before being awarded a medal of honour in 1977 . |
| 2 | His education had been interrupted by the war of 1914–18 , in which he served on the western front as an officer in the 8th battalion of the East Surrey Regiment . |
| 3 | Lee , startled to see Philip , moved and the helmet which he had on the back of his head fell off on to the flagged floor . |
| 4 | Singling out The Forest and the Fire , which he laid on the pillow ready , he left the rest in a pile on the floor . |
| 5 | He spent a year in Britain during which time he was commissioned to write numerous articles criticising Russia which earned him a considerable amount of money , some of which he spent on a very comfortable lifestyle . |
| 6 | This of course is what inspired Thor Heyerdahl 's dramatic Kon-Tiki expedition in which he sailed on a raft from South America to Polynesia , thus hoping to prove that he was following in the wake of ancient migration routes which could explain the cultural similarities he found between the two culture areas . |
| 7 | Orwell 's jibes at Auden 's emigration to New York in January 1939 , too , with Christopher Isherwood , were to be echoed shortly after by Waugh in Put Out More Flags ( 1942 ) , which he composed on a troopship . |
| 8 | Her father took a silver case from his pocket and withdrew a cigarette , which he tapped on a thumbnail before putting it in his mouth and lighting it . |
| 9 | He established a considerable empire through central Europe , in the course of which he conferred on the Abbot of St Gall the right of market holding , coinage and excise . |
| 10 | Lutyens had been struck by the emphasis she had placed on the word — and on her choice of it ; chaste was not a word Miss Jekyll usually employed when planning her gardens , and Lutyens bore it in mind throughout — hence the austerity to which he adhered on the terraces . |
| 11 | I bet myself he had professional ‘ On Tow ’ plates in the truck and he had , along with a seemingly authentic ‘ Police Aware ’ sticker which he stuck on the rear windscreen . |
| 12 | Lisson 's collaboration between Michael Joaquin Grey and Randolph Huff , with sculpture by Tony Cragg 's pupil , Wilhelm Mundt ( to 10 October ) , will be followed by new works by John Latham and a new installation by Christian Boltanski ( 20 October-21 November ) , a photographic record of the pupils of the gallery 's local school , North Westminster Community School , which he compiled on a visit to London last month . |
| 13 | And still , after Crime and Punishment , the idea of a confession novel or story tugs at the edge of Dostoevsky 's vision , and continues to do so for the rest of his life in the form of The Life of a Great Sinner which he planned on the scale of War and Peace , but which never got written though it fed previous material into his novels of the seventies , and especially Karamazov at the turn of the next decade . |
| 14 | He referred specifically to the point that this concrete path was only " " seven feet long " " , and it seems to me that on the evidence he was entitled to come to the conclusion which he reached on the question of fact , i.e. that in all the circumstances the steps formed part of the building . " |
| 15 | He spends the day with the shepherd and helps him milk his ewes , and at the end of the day he sees that the shepherd puts the best milk he has in a wooden bowl , which he places on a flat stone some distance away . |
| 16 | He opens three cans deftly with a penknife and pours the lot — mushroom soup , wieners , white beans — into a pot which he places on the fire while holding a small flashlight in his mouth . |
| 17 | After a long and colourful summing up , in which he swelt on the viciousness of the attack and the grievousness of the wounds , the callousness of the defendants and the misery of the surviving relatives , he made one adamant point . |
| 18 | By contrast Aleksandr Yakovlev , regarded as the most liberal politburo member , won an unexpectedly warm reception for an impassioned address in which he dwelt on the value of perestroika in doing away with the Stalinist legacy and restoring morale and morality and the dignity of both the party and the individual : he observed that " not only emptying shelves but also emptying souls brought about perestroika and demanded revolutionary changes " . |
| 19 | At a certain point in his investigations , at the harbour in Trieste , the narrator imagines the pleasure felt by the midshipman who at that moment is explaining the lay-out and workings of his ship to two visitors , giving all the parts of the ship and all the instruments their proper names , which ‘ have no synonyms ’ ( Del Giudice 1983 : 44 ) ; and muses further on his own dreams of navigation , envying the midshipman ‘ the way in which he concentrates on the angle and the height , and his habit of considering himself in relation to something ’ , above all ‘ the exactitude of the chart ’ ( 45 ) . |
| 20 | Rico came in with a couple of white towels , which he threw on the table . |
| 21 | In the rear of one of these biplanes there was a gunner with a Scarfe ring who selected a pan of rounds which he put on the gun . |
| 22 | The New York Herald dispatched the journalist Henry Morton Stanley to find him , which he did on the famous encounter of 10 November 1871 at Ujiji , near Lake Tanganyika . |
| 23 | He had been carrying a small bag , which he dumped on the table , and she looked at it in disbelief . |
| 24 | He carried a leather bag which he placed on the floor by the settee . |
| 25 | Underhill stopped in front of a lock-up on Dale Street , opened the door and then began carrying out large cardboard cartons which he placed on the hand-cart … |
| 26 | For his last session , which was about cannabis , the sergeant brought along a whacking great sample of the stuff which he placed on the lecture bench in front of him . |
| 27 | Slowly he hung his trousers on a hanger , which he placed on the communal rail which ran through the dressing room . |
| 28 | To understand his teaching on economic issues and how it relates to the Old Testament we need to understand the emphasis which he placed on the Kingdom of God . |
| 29 | He took from it a ten-shilling note which he placed on the tea-chest , smoothing out the folds to make it lie flat . |
| 30 | He reached into an inside pocket and took out a form which he placed on the table . |