Example sentences of "that he [verb] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Andy Gray , on Sky , said that he sits on a panel to decide if a goal is an OG or not … and can then take goals off players . |
| 2 | It was followed about twenty years later , in 1271 , by the forecast of a purely mechanical chronometer by Robertus Anglicus ( ‘ Robert the Englishman , ) in a commentary that he wrote on the Treatise on the Sphere of Sacrobosco . |
| 3 | Then he remembered the photograph that he left on his bedside table every night . |
| 4 | ‘ Is it the fact that he rambles on that bores you , or the fact that you do n't want to talk about what life 's about ? ’ |
| 5 | He gives good , solid information in this chapter , suggesting that he felt on more solid ground when discussing this topic . |
| 6 | As he approaches the city on the freeway the same old restless excitement stirs in him that he felt on that first apocalyptic evening all those years ago . |
| 7 | All three write that he went on the pilgrimage in 822 , al-Makrizi saying that he had gone by way of Damascus , Ibn Hajar and al-Sayrafi possibly implying that he went from Jerusalem since they write that he " returned " there after the pilgrimage : the two versions are not , of course , mutually exclusive in any case , and the latter two authors may well mean no more than that he returned [ from the pilgrimage ] to Jerusalem . |
| 8 | He covets your practice , and in order to get it he 'll play the same trick on you that he played on me . ’ |
| 9 | This last project is an embarrassingly inappropriate tribute to a man who could not identify any plants , trees or birds that he saw on his journeys except by such vapid statements as ‘ big and little birds of all sorts ’ , ‘ trees very green ’ , and ‘ many trees very different from ours . ’ |
| 10 | The only incongruous note was a cheap round badge , enamelled in red and yellow , that he wore on his shirt , which bore the legend ‘ Just Say No ! ’ . |
| 11 | During this period Stella is in hospital as she is in labour and Stanley changes into the marriage pyjamas that he wore on his wedding night as celebration . |
| 12 | Adam 's cut-off jeans with the fringed hems , she meant , and his yellow and red headband that he insisted on calling a fillet as if it were a bit of fish . |
| 13 | Likely it was because she had recognised in him from the first the trait matching her own : the ability to make money , for especially was she enamoured of his Sunday second-hand car-sales and of the fact that he insisted on working on that day and handling this side of the business himself . |
| 14 | Chris , it seems , was so worried about his partner Jayne Torvill finding out about his relationship with Isabelle that he insisted on seeing her in secret when Jayne had gone to bed . |
| 15 | This should be sufficient to put a purchaser on notice so that he insists on paying the purchase monies to two trustees or a trust corporation so as to obtain a good receipt ( Law of Property Act 1925 , s27 ) . |
| 16 | ‘ Hang him , hang him ’ , they cried , and demanded that he go on trial . |
| 17 | But then any clothes would have been more suitable than the skimpy loincloth that he sports on stage every night in the long-running London musical Joseph And The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat . |
| 18 | The usual jibe was that Crowninshield was a politician without a cause , or rather that he would support any cause so long as it was fashionable , but his critics also attacked Crowninshield for being wealthy , claiming that his eminence was solely due to the vast amounts of money that he spent on his campaigns . |
| 19 | To that representative of the religious élite who by his bland statement , ‘ How happy are those who will sit down at the feast in the Kingdom of God ! , ’ revealed that he counted on a reserved seat , our Lord told the parable of the Great Feast . |
| 20 | He simply said that he did not know how the M.P.s would react in his favour but that he counted on me to work with him . |
| 21 | More fundamental — because it looked towards a future international order rather than the waning one — was the critique of NATO and American hegemony that he developed on his return to power and that remained one of the hallmarks of his international policy throughout the 1960s . |
| 22 | I believed that a murrain would fall on the hens that he kept on his house-top , a wasting illness on the sheep that he kept by his door . |
| 23 | At the utmost , the allegation that he relied on the testator 's promise seems to me to import no more than that he believed the testator would be as good as his word . |
| 24 | Only the mouth told him that he looked on the face of his friend . |
| 25 | But Mr Clarke 's statements since the meeting ‘ give the impression that he reneged on his promise to us . |
| 26 | It appears that he stepped on one of those box mines placed in a gap in a hedgerow . |
| 27 | It has been said that he provided no leadership and lacked control of the episcopate , and it is clear that he waited on events in 1326–7 , only casting his lot with Isabella and Mortimer when the king 's cause was obviously lost . |
| 28 | He stood in the middle of the living room and took off all his clothes , leaving them on the floor where they fell ; then he inspected his naked body , front , back and sides , in the full-length mirror that he had on his living room wall . |
| 29 | That he had on previous occasions overcome his antipathy to women is suggested by remarks he made to others . |
| 30 | I remember in particular the huge smile that he had on his face when the Government were defeated in a way which can be described in parliamentary terms as nothing short of absolutely remarkable . |