Example sentences of "it was on his " in BNC.
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| 1 | He pulled the drawer right out so that it was on his knee . |
| 2 | It was on his head that you returned to the beat on time . |
| 3 | He did n't mind socializing with his staff as long as it was on His terms and at their expense , but to meet them as equals on neutral ground was another matter . |
| 4 | But it was on his return to the West Coast that he was to suffer most discomfiture . |
| 5 | Leicester manager Brian Little confirmed that Walsh will be fined and insisted : ‘ I did n't tell Steve to say ‘ sorry ’ If he did , it was on his own initiative . |
| 6 | In order to exercise this authority , however , it was first necessary to settle the dispute with York , and it was on his handling of this issue that Anselm 's reputation with the monks of Canterbury chiefly depended : they later compared him with Lanfranc to his disadvantage . |
| 7 | It was on his back , between his shoulder blades . |
| 8 | It was on his deathbed in this French-style palace , an exquisite architectural tribute to the shared tastes of the Auld Alliance , that James heard of his daughter 's birth and predicted of his realm ‘ It cam ’ wi' a lass , and it 'll gang wi' a lass . ’ |
| 9 | It was open to the solicitor , if the appellants be right , to explain to the judge why they were absent , because it was on his advice . |
| 10 | It was on his recommendation that the guard-rail was rebuilt , and he constantly reminded everyone visiting the belvedere of the hazard . ’ |
| 11 | Huy had been more help to the Medjay than he realised ; but it was on his own account that he decided to take up Taheb 's invitation and visit her . |
| 12 | It was on his prompting that ethnic drop-out youths were now accepted onto college courses without formal qualifications ; it was on his urging that examinations were now being set and marked in Urdu and other minority languages , the faculties shamed at last out of their insistence that English was the only language in the world that counted . |
| 13 | It was on his prompting that ethnic drop-out youths were now accepted onto college courses without formal qualifications ; it was on his urging that examinations were now being set and marked in Urdu and other minority languages , the faculties shamed at last out of their insistence that English was the only language in the world that counted . |
| 14 | It was on his picture list . |