Example sentences of "[adv] he [verb] on [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were pauses , then he banged the keys plaintively , going over the passages he had n't been able to get right , then suddenly he put on a record of the Chopin and played along with it , always two or three notes behind . |
| 2 | I might have got worn out , the number of miles we walked and bins we excavated , only he sat on every bench we came across and stared into space . |
| 3 | He tries to manufacture the shot with the 5 , but it does n't quite come off , and sure enough he goes on the Road . |
| 4 | So he worked on the nocturne by day , mindful of the contradiction . |
| 5 | Damian opened the bedroom door , and as she stumbled in he flicked on the light and the fan began to whir softly above her head as she stood in the centre of the room , the vast white double bed behind her , the wooden floor warm beneath her feet . |
| 6 | Alan Rough has given more to Scottish football than he could ever take and for that reason alone he stands on the terraces of Hampden Babylon like a colossus . |
| 7 | And the longer he remains on the run , the worse it will become for him . ’ |
| 8 | Outside he stood on the steps for a minute , surveying his city and sniffing the morning air . |
| 9 | Desperately he hauled on the lines , trying to pull them free , knowing he was too low to deploy the reserve . |
| 10 | As soon as he paid off he went on the dole again . |
| 11 | But she knew that in the last resort if he did I would do it , but he 's , he 's paid off now as soon as he 'd paid off he went on the dole again |
| 12 | I love you forever he put on the Freddy Mercury tape |
| 13 | But 12 minutes later he got on the end of a superb cross from Paul Dalton . |
| 14 | And about two minutes later he knocked on the door did n't he ? |
| 15 | But er , that 's a great advantage when compared with the newly appointed British Ambassador in Washington , who having just arrived in Washington , er picked up the telephone and heard a voice at the other end , say , what do you want for Christmas , it was just before Christmas , what do you want for Christmas , and he thought hastily and , did n't want to be impolite or too greedy , so he said a small box of crystallised fruit , and put the telephone down , and a few momen a few moments later he put on the radio , and the announcer said , we 've just conducted our normal review of the Ambassadors ' wishes for Christmas , er , the the Ambassadors in Washington . |
| 16 | When he comes back he goes on a hunger strike for chicken . |
| 17 | A couple of months back he appeared on a Channel Four quiz show called Fifteen to One . |
| 18 | Now he sits on a therapy group helping the same types of people he used to lock up . |
| 19 | Now he lies on the beam |
| 20 | Chapman said it would depend on how well he did on the Saturday . |
| 21 | Here he reports on the work being done to bring the 18-year-old VVER up to acceptable safety standards . |
| 22 | Here he draws on a set of propositions derived from Habermas 's discussion of crisis tendencies in modern society ( see Roderick , 1986 : 103 ) . |
| 23 | Here he worked on the home ground of his old master , Adam Sedgwick , and began his long continued interest in Lower Palaeozoic stratigraphy . |
| 24 | Here he elaborates on an argument sketched out a few years earlier , that the label ‘ postmodern ’ denoted the quality of being ‘ free to come to new terms with both realism and anti-realism , linearity and non-linearity , continuity and discontinuity ’ . |
| 25 | Moodily he put on the kettle for some more coffee , powdered this time , he could not rise to the skills performed so effortlessly by Sarah Fleming . |
| 26 | Then why the hell did n't he knock on the door ? |
| 27 | Did n't he lean on the window sills towards the end ? |
| 28 | left them up , left them up or something I do n't He said on the night he 'll have to come again and have a look at it . |
| 29 | And why had n't he left on the passage light ? |
| 30 | Er Right he says on the subject of attachment of identity and language and why and why not language is maintained , he cites Harris and and the Yiddish and Na-dene speakers . |