Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | Based in Minnesota they have had little if any real distribution in the UK until Terry Shearer , who did so much at Spandex to get IBM 's 4250 accepted by the printing industry , took them on through his new company , PrePress Solutions . |
| 2 | In the way by which he was brought up by hand and also how his hands are burnt and so scarred by the fire in which he tries to save Miss Havisham , perhaps showing physically the mental scars he has taken on through his treatment of others , especially Joe . |
| 3 | ‘ In total , he received around £12,000 of cigarettes and spirit which he had given away to business colleagues or sold on through his business , ’ said Roger Dutton , prosecuting . |
| 4 | ‘ In total he received around £12,000 of cigarettes and spirits which he had given away to business colleagues or sold on through his business , ’ said Roger Dutton , prosecuting . |
| 5 | But Sir Bernard was outraged ; and since , throughout this account , he goes on about his rectitude and his impartiality as a civil servant , it is worth quoting him on what happened to journalists who fell out with him . |
| 6 | He liked to think of Beamish in the dock at the Central Court , his counsel blustering on about his client 's perfectly normal , acceptable need for heavy metal poisons ( ‘ But how do you explain , Mr Beamish , your ordering a quantity of thallium from a perfectly reputable chemist 's … ? ’ ) |
| 7 | McGowan was running on about his gun collection . |
| 8 | But then people go on about his past , the drug dealing and that . |
| 9 | Tarantino also has a bet on about his interpretation of Madonna 's ‘ Like A Virgin ’ . |
| 10 | He was always on about his daughter , you know . |
| 11 | He goes on about his experience of life and how he knows more about it . |
| 12 | Walker remembers that he ‘ was always on about his nasal allergies or something . |
| 13 | And they do n't go on about his obvious flaws , like him being a doctor and having three dozen girlfriends . |
| 14 | ‘ He goes on about his daughter rather a lot . ’ |
| 15 | Very sensible of Hilda : nothing is more ridiculous than an old-age pensioner gabbling on about his or her risqué past . |
| 16 | Going on about his birthday as if it was the Second Coming . ’ |
| 17 | He went on and on about his mother . |
| 18 | Williams would always like talking about Orton , although he would publicly protest for years that it was so boring to keep going on about his relationship with the writer . |
| 19 | WALLPAPER king George Carpenter knows this column covers everything : he 's been on about his latest water polo exploits . |
| 20 | he said , well , I know he 's on about his glasses again ai n't he ? |
| 21 | he still go on about his to do these . |
| 22 | ‘ Whatever a man remembers at the last , when he is leaving the body , will be realised by him hereafter ; because that will be what his mind constantly dwelt on during his life . ’ |
| 23 | As a young radio announcer he had shown a talent for communication that he had subsequently built on during his years in Hollywood and it was also during this period that politics became a consuming interest . |
| 24 | She provides a lopsided interpretation of Freemantle 's report that on her death bed the poet expressed concern for her father and asked that the subscription be carried on for his sake : |
| 25 | He cleared the breakfast things and left him with the small addressed postcard that he had been provided with to write a message on for his mother . |
| 26 | Chatam remains reasonably treated on a 12lb higher mark than last year , he acts well on soft ground , is ideally suited by Newbury 's left-handed track , and the weight of ante-post money suggests he will be spot on for his reappearance . |
| 27 | The research Jarvis embarked on for his book took him into the lower level concourse at Bond Street . |
| 28 | He was an undergraduate then , of course , but he stayed on for his doctorate , then became a fellow . |
| 29 | But as soon as he cursed himself for being taken in last night by Isabel 's distress , two insistent memories shook his belief that it had been an act put on for his benefit : the way she had clung fiercely to his hand when they had passed the dungeons , her grip almost painfully strong , and the stricken expression on her face when he had ordered her to strip . |
| 30 | On another night , he went on for his Fred Astaire routine , after one of three ultra-quick changes , with his flies open . |