Example sentences of "[conj] he [verb] on [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A crowd crush at Ayresome Park on Saturday forced Middlesbrough 's match with Leeds United to be suspended for 15 minutes , and so alarmed the Leeds manager , Howard Wilkinson , that he clambered on to the perimeter fencing to appeal for calm . |
| 2 | A crowd crush at Ayresome Park on Saturday forced Middlesbrough 's match with Leeds United to be suspended for 15 minutes , and so alarmed the Leeds manager , Howard Wilkinson , that he clambered on to the perimeter fencing to appeal for calm . |
| 3 | Many legends are told of Barbarossa ; it is said that he is not dead , that no true Emperor has ruled since his reign , and that he lives on until the Day of Judgement . |
| 4 | The vase wobbled , so he hung on to the window ledge to steady himself . |
| 5 | He does , he likes to get in the bedroom and , and he fiddles on with the erm |
| 6 | Dad knew it was no good arguing with her and he carried on with the job . |
| 7 | Carey stumbled , suddenly having to take half Piper 's weight , and he fell on to the couch taking Piper with him . |
| 8 | And he walked on in the winter sunshine , the tom-cat smell of the tramp in his nostrils , the wind swelling his clothes , bowling him down the hill towards the station . |
| 9 | Beckett remarks in Our Exagmination Round his Factification for Incamination of Work in progress , that Joyce 's work is ‘ not about something : it is that something itself ( Beckett 1929 and 1972 : 14 ) , and he goes on in the central part of his oeuvre , the trilogy Molloy , Malone Dies , The Unnamable ( 1950 — 2 ) , to create a kind of autonomy of his own — — as the Unnamable remarks , ‘ it all boils down to a question of words … all words , there 's nothing else ’ ( 1959 and 1979 : 308 ) . |
| 10 | Martin had pulled himself up to his feet now and he held on to the back of the chair as he nodded at her , then watched her go towards the door . |
| 11 | He was new and he joined after the project submission had gone in , but at a stage where it needed to be implemented and he sewed on to the thing straight away . |
| 12 | And he dashed on over the hills . |
| 13 | ‘ Go on , you daft dog , ’ said Tom , and he leapt on to the bed between Willie 's arms and licked his face . |
| 14 | The eminent Spaniard took 7 at the first hole of the Novo Sancti Petri course , of which he is the architect , and finished his first round ten shots behind Ireland 's Des Smyth who had not seen the course until he stepped on to the first tee . |
| 15 | Whereupon he wandered on to the stage carrying a 12-foot ladder he repeatedly threatened to climb . |
| 16 | He could n't see you if you were standing right in front of him , but he carried on at the anvil and used to feel the iron he was working . ’ |
| 17 | She took a step backwards and this seemed to satisfy him , because he went on up the ladder . |
| 18 | Best had been the heir apparent ever since he burst on to the representative scene as the architect of the London Division 's remarkable 21–10 win over the touring Australians at Twickenham in '88 . |
| 19 | Lord Romsey , of Hampshire , found himself issued with a £40 fixed penalty and a ‘ severe ticking-off ’ after he drove on to the hard shoulder to join the M271 near Southampton . |
| 20 | I mean , after he stayed on at the College to sixteen then worked in offices . |
| 21 | He knew the man would be magnificent when he got on to the stage that night . |
| 22 | When he gets on to the old antibiotics he |
| 23 | But when he strode on to the green , he came over , glanced fleetingly at the man , said not a word , turned on his heel and continued with his game . |
| 24 | We know what the Conservative party thought of Michael Heseltine this week , they cheered him to the echo when he strode on to the platform at Blackpool . |
| 25 | The 29-year-old Scot , a £225,000 summer capture from Millwall , has struggled to find his form on Wearside but all that changed when he came on for the injured Don Goodman after just 12 minutes of Saturday 's game against Barnsley . |
| 26 | ‘ The DJ took up the same line when he came on for the broadcast quiz interview , ’ she went on . |
| 27 | The inspiration began when he stepped on to the tee five minutes early , just taking it all in . |
| 28 | When he stepped on to the seventh tee he was five shots clear of all challengers and the title was safely under lock and key . |
| 29 | The victim , who has not yet been named , died instantly when he fell on to the middle lane of an unlit section of the M25 between Merstham and Reigate , Surrey . |
| 30 | When he hung on to the ball there was a strange , self-assured almost narcissistic side to his game . |