Example sentences of "on he " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is n't lost on him that his reading matter — popular science , pornography — is ‘ junk ’ . |
| 2 | Eluard 's soaring ‘ lyricism ’ helped to perpetuate a tyranny , and is the kind of thing which led Kundera to employ the title The Lyric Age for the work which first came to him in the mid-Fifties , and which his publishers prevailed on him to retitle Life is elsewhere when it was completed in 1969 . |
| 3 | And Gavin turned on him once more : What d' you mean ye deny ye get long holidays ? |
| 4 | The piece tests the actor 's awareness and imagination to the full , but nevertheless makes precise demands on him : he must follow exactly what the author says . |
| 5 | Then turn on him . |
| 6 | But the others , with the abominable tout in their sights , had been quick to fix the blame on him . |
| 7 | ‘ Nonsense , Peter , ’ his wife pounced down on him as if he were a hound that had misbehaved . |
| 8 | Still , the fact that Lord Heptonstall had the use of his all night does rather direct the spotlight on him . ’ |
| 9 | He reveres Tagore as the great modern writer of Bengal , but he looks at him disrespectfully , as if he was applying a Brechtian alienation-effect on him . |
| 10 | Bernini was arguably the most important architect and sculptor in my period and Charles had effectively indicated that I was not competent to lecture on him . |
| 11 | If you 've got some new material on him that you want to share with us , I 'm more than happy to arrange another lecture for you later in the term , but frankly , as you 've apparently given the same lecture on him for the past ten years , I can hardly be accused of interfering with academic freedom , can I ? ’ |
| 12 | If you 've got some new material on him that you want to share with us , I 'm more than happy to arrange another lecture for you later in the term , but frankly , as you 've apparently given the same lecture on him for the past ten years , I can hardly be accused of interfering with academic freedom , can I ? ’ |
| 13 | Police Review ( 18 February 1983 ) has an article on him by a superintendent , which is full of graphic metaphors clearly illustrating this idea of ‘ traitors to the service ’ . |
| 14 | Not that she gave a damn , but Lucy 's mind was obviously on him . |
| 15 | Hope Steuart had leaned two loaded muskets against the doorjambs ; he turned to pick one up but the Duke 's two sons were on him , twisting his arms behind him . |
| 16 | The whole campaign dragged on him with a dead weight at this moment . |
| 17 | Byers felt the pressure on him to offer something and was restive under it like a dog on a tether . |
| 18 | Byers turned on him as Ella came through to ask them to hush their voices . |
| 19 | Alas ! his only response to the friendly gesture was to urinate accidentally on him , which was of consummate embarrassment to his mother , and not quite in the spirit of musar ! |
| 20 | This was carefully shielded from the growing boy , though horror of a personal , more penetrating sort was to obtrude itself soon enough on him . |
| 21 | The following is the counsellor 's report on him , and demonstrates the 14-year-old 's all-round interests and abilities : |
| 22 | But that other ‘ landscape ’ , quieter perhaps , but like an underground stream , unconscious and very persistent , never failed to obtrude itself on him : ‘ It is strange that even now prayer is my natural language , ’ he said , in ‘ Lines From My Grandfather 's Journal ’ ( The Spice-Box Of Earth , p10 ) which powerfully reflect his own self-questionings ; the ‘ tyranny ’ was asserting itself . |
| 23 | He started up at my scream and I saw the dark blood on him and on me . |
| 24 | It 's no accident that Svidrigailov is the only one in the novel to handle yellow paper money , just as it 's no accident that children are frightened of him and run away ‘ in indescribable terror ’ because ( so we understand in our bones ) they smell death on him , or rather the unattachment to life which defeats even Sonya Marmeladov . |
| 25 | Other existences rub off on him , as can be shown at the grammatical level when he overhears a student and an army officer discussing the money-lender . |
| 26 | Details of background , opinions , foibles , are lavished on him as on nobody else . |
| 27 | He studied with Barthes in Paris when Barthes was unknown in England , and later wrote a book on him in French ( ‘ Barthesian French ’ Hough has observed ) . |
| 28 | An unfamiliar Derrida emerges from Norris 's book on him , not a nihilist , an artist-philosopher or a joker , but a profound thinker who does not uphold the positions that are popularly ascribed to him : irrationalism ; interpretation as an unending free-for-all ; meaning disappearing in a cloud of dispersing signifiers ; the abandonment of reference and the disappearance ( or death ) of the author . |
| 29 | He 'd no place to live and they 'd ganged up on him . |
| 30 | In his Macbeth , the Scottish warlord became a Samurai warrior in 16th century Japan , bludgeoning his way to power beneath a cherry tree that rained white blossom down on him . |