Example sentences of "[conj] he [verb] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The vicar managed to catch him before he fell to the floor , and he was removed to his home , where he died on the Friday morning , 8 September . |
| 2 | It is this preoccupation which accounts for Derrida 's choice , and forceful interrogation , of the privileged examples of Saussure — where he focuses on the ‘ profound ethnocentrism ’ of his exclusion of writing — Rousseau and Lévi-Strauss . |
| 3 | She put her arms round him where he stood on the threshold of her room . |
| 4 | He did a really intimate show where he sat on the edge of the stage with his ankles crossed and talked to them and sang them songs . |
| 5 | The world of the Zoo seemed to move without any noise at all and around the Cages all was still but for the visitor Creggan had attacked , who swayed back and forth where he sat on the ground , others gathered around him . |
| 6 | Having lifted Hector into the vehicle , where he sat on the floorboards , panting with his tongue lolling out , and wagging a satisfied tail , Benedict swung himself up and grinned down at her as he took the reins into his hand . |
| 7 | A few days later , he was off to south London , where he concentrated on the subject of deserts — his speciality . |
| 8 | Having to choose between being ‘ poor in Oxford or comfortable in Aber. ’ , he chose Aberystwyth , where he worked on the university magazine , published his first poems and stories , and dabbled in left-wing politics . |
| 9 | Guess we kinda know now where he stands on the issue . |
| 10 | He reiterated one of the problems that dogged him throughout life , which was fatigue ; for although he had on the whole a ‘ tough ’ constitution — at least he liked to think so — and tremendous will-power , he had driven himself very hard over the past twenty years . |
| 11 | Although he sat on the fence with the rest of London 's Jews during the noisy campaign of Rabbi Manasseh ben Israel [ q.v. ] of Amsterdam to secure a public readmission of the Jews to England , eventually he was forced to show his hand . |
| 12 | A rough diamond in his earlier years , he has now become a sophisticated centre who was drafted into the Irish World Cup squad , although he languished on the bench and was never called upon . |
| 13 | It was followed about twenty years later , in 1271 , by the forecast of a purely mechanical chronometer by Robertus Anglicus ( ‘ Robert the Englishman , ) in a commentary that he wrote on the Treatise on the Sphere of Sacrobosco . |
| 14 | All three write that he went on the pilgrimage in 822 , al-Makrizi saying that he had gone by way of Damascus , Ibn Hajar and al-Sayrafi possibly implying that he went from Jerusalem since they write that he " returned " there after the pilgrimage : the two versions are not , of course , mutually exclusive in any case , and the latter two authors may well mean no more than that he returned [ from the pilgrimage ] to Jerusalem . |
| 15 | At the utmost , the allegation that he relied on the testator 's promise seems to me to import no more than that he believed the testator would be as good as his word . |
| 16 | Only the mouth told him that he looked on the face of his friend . |
| 17 | When allegations that Schnur had worked for the Stasi for at least 20 years were first made on March 9 his denials were supported up by the West German government which said that he had on the contrary been passing information on political repression in East Germany to them . |
| 18 | The French writer Theophile Gautier , for example , observed that his female cat would always listen attentively to the singers that he accompanied on the piano . |
| 19 | It 's here that he worked on the painstaking part by part design of the bike on a computer . |
| 20 | Further , the appellant complains that by ruling in the way that he did on the main issue , the assistant recorder effectively left before the jury evidence prejudicial to the appellant which was relevant to counts 1 and 6 only : had he ruled in favour of the appellant on the motion to quash then he would have had to consider the matter and ( by inference ) would have exercised his discretion to discharge the jury and order a new trial on the remaining counts . |
| 21 | Well , ladies and gentlemen , I think you 'll agree that some of John Maynard-Smith 's early engineering training showed through , as it were , in reverse order , if that 's not too heretical a statement to make in this context , in the gentle good natured demolition job that he did on the main current critical attacks on Darwin 's mechanism , and particularly on the rhythms of change that Darwin adumbrated within his own time scale . |
| 22 | Millet took the bus to the pre-war inelegance of the College close to the Thames towpath and blessed the warmth that he found on the upper deck . |
| 23 | Just as much as I disliked the lean , tanned , grinning face that he presented on the comm screen . |
| 24 | From thence he progressed into Formula Ford , with an Alexis that he bought on the never-never . |
| 25 | Dustin was offered $250,000 — fifteen times more than he earned on The Graduate . |
| 26 | He did not do himself justice in 1991 , never getting his timing right in his early-season preparations any more than he did on the golf course . |
| 27 | He was twenty-five then and did n't want to get married , so he kept on the cottage and looked after himself . |
| 28 | Tallboy was n't sure how to judge his superior 's tone but he needed a fillip to his esteem right now so he looked on the bright side . |
| 29 | He rose but found his chains would not let him even reach it , so he slumped on the ledge and wondered how long he would be detained . |
| 30 | Once he stumbled on the cobbles . |