Example sentences of "on [subord] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | These are the shellfish of legend , capable of snapping shut on a diver 's unwary foot , holding on until his air runs out . |
| 2 | Despite calls for his head , Taylor yesterday pledged to stay on until his contract expires after the World Cup in 1994 . |
| 3 | His first major undertakings were the erection of Peckwater quadrangle at Christ Church to the design of Aldrich ( 1706–14 ) and the fellows ' building and cloister at Corpus Christi College ( 1706–12 ) ; and from then on until his death , occasionally working in partnership with another Oxford mason , Bartholomew Peisley ( d . |
| 4 | The system of posting-horses introduced by Ralph Allan in 1720 held on until his death in 1762 , but by then passenger stage coaches were travelling faster on most major roads . |
| 5 | Stable jockey Chris Grant said : ‘ He had been ill for a long while , but carried on because his horses were his life . ’ |
| 6 | I can not … ’ but he could not go on because his voice was shaking with such rage . |
| 7 | The RSPCA took him on because his owners could n't afford the vet 's bill . |
| 8 | Quistgaard , who has bought a plush house in the south of France , is fighting to stay on after his four-year term runs out next year . |
| 9 | ‘ We have no intention of letting him go and I would like him to stay on after his present contract expires . |
| 10 | It was a glorious victory when he managed to persuade the grown-ups to let him stay on after his parents had gone back to Manchester . |
| 11 | She had to be a prop for him to lean on when his own despair grew too great . |
| 12 | She was to leave behind three of the youngest children , the last a ‘ sickly babe ’ born less than six months before their departure ; they were to take with them only their eldest son , John Henry , who was by then seven years old , and Mrs Gould 's nephew , Henry Coxen , whom the couple had taken on when his father died in 1825 . |
| 13 | Then at Christie 's , Swedish collector Dr Philip Sandbloom looked on as his 1927–28 Matisse , ‘ Harmony in yellow ’ sold for a record $13.2 million ( £8.8 million ) . |
| 14 | Ducrocq , recognising perhaps Jack 's engineering ability and flying enthusiasm , took him on as his full time mechanic and at the same time began teaching Jack to fly . |