Example sentences of "he [vb -s] on [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ … 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 . ’ |
| 2 | Sorry folks but I hope Kelly has a stinker if he plays on Wednesday night for Big Jacks team . |
| 3 | Thus , a director must account to the company for any commissions he receives on company contracts , because he receives them only by virtue of his position as a director , and he could have been induced to encourage the company to enter into a contract which is not in its best interest . |
| 4 | In Harlem where Imamu originally lived with his alcoholic mother , all the people he hung around with and the people he meets on return visits to this area are black and then in Brooklyn with the Aimsley family , all the people in their street are also black . |
| 5 | ‘ He 's still fat-faced and not sporty enough for me , but looking at him this way I have to say he scores on winner appeal and the self-confidence power brings him , ’ she said . |
| 6 | But that was 20 years ago , now he concentrates on executive recruitment . |
| 7 | He concentrates on street scenes . |
| 8 | Without fair warning he calls on Helen Mirren , hitherto muffled by the black flounces of his cosmology , to produce raw feeling , love even , loss and rage . |
| 9 | He puts on Gene Pitney . |
| 10 | On to a Category C , given home leave , first thing he does on home leave is go out and kill an Asian man . |
| 11 | He comes on stage performing ballet steps , pirouettes off into the wings , makes some weird grunting sounds , then reappears . |
| 12 | He dies on Christmas Eve , and they do n't come for the body till the day after Boxing Day . |