Example sentences of "[conj] he [vb past] [adv prt] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And he accepts that he set out on the lonely road to stardom too early in life . |
| 2 | She released him and he fell back on the crumpled bedclothes to stare up at her at first blankly . |
| 3 | We went swimming with Jonathan the other night and he got up on the top board and sort of and he was sort of like hanging on to the bar like this looking over |
| 4 | I was milking my goats in the field , and he got down on the ground and put his head near my foot . |
| 5 | He was shadowed everywhere in Sheffield , and he looked back on the experience as his most annoying transfer hid — particularly as it turned out to be one of his rare failures . |
| 6 | The situation became funnier and funnier and he lay back on the bed shaken by deep gasps of laughter . |
| 7 | ‘ That 's it , then , ’ Joe said , and he lay back on the bed with the receiver to his ear and the handset held on his chest . |
| 8 | The fall seemed to bring Liam to his senses and he sat up on the road wondering where he was . |
| 9 | She asked him to test her on fielding positions , and he marked out on the sand the two sets of stumps and the ten fielding positions around them . |
| 10 | Further that we shall petition government tor an abolition and nullifying of the foresaid Act from the records of British parliament ; that the members of parliament for this county shall present this petition , or any annexed thereto , to the two Houses of Parliament , and to the Privy Council , during the prorogation of parliament — ‘ Menzies was seething and he broke in on the last words . |
| 11 | Even when he was small , out hunting , and broke his arm , could n't wait until he got back on the horse , used his stock for a sling and rode home . ’ |
| 12 | But he lost out on the First Division title because he was reluctant to strengthen the team . |
| 13 | My old mate , Malc Bassford , had 3 lb next to me — he is definitely getting better as that is his best weight since he bagged up on the River Cam 20 years ago . |
| 14 | Old Hewlett-Packard Co hands say that back in their day Lew Platt never looked to be a contender for the presidency : they are gratified to see him elevated since he came up on the Unix side and wonder how much should be read into that . |
| 15 | It caught him full in the middle of his back , throwing him into the air before he crashed down on the cobbles . |
| 16 | So anyway , I said to her the week before last when he went up on the Sunday , I said go up there and say to her |
| 17 | Furthermore , when he checked back on the correlation between his simple lix values and the criterion of pooled estimates of difficulty , he found that the figure was 0.92 , which was exactly the same as that obtained from the multiple regression . |
| 18 | But my father went to America just after the war , and when he came back on the Queen Mary , he brought my mother some nylons , which were not obtainable in Britain at that time . |
| 19 | Macaulay Culkin is wonderful — I like him a lot — but I did get frightened at the bit when he slipped over on the ice and the bad men caught up with him . |
| 20 | The passageway outside was still reverberating from the crash when he started in on the door of the next apartment . |
| 21 | Reid , who lost winning positions on the final day in the Masters and the US PGA , was beaten 3 and 2 and when he bowed out on the 34th green he was nine under par for the day . |
| 22 | Two things mattered to Mr Major when he set off on the campaign road a month ago . |
| 23 | The hot shine must have cut to black as he was soft-footing it up the stairs , because when he turned around on the half-landing and crouched behind the angle of the banister the only light in the hall was the inward spill from the porch , and that was getting less as the door slowly closed on its hydraulic arm . |
| 24 | It must have been quite a shock when he turned up on the doorstep . ’ |
| 25 | The horseman took a great pride in his horses , as we have seen ; and when he turned out on the highway he was careful to see they were braided up , the brasses highly polished , and the bounces — the ‘ lovely coloured worsted ’ , as one horseman called them — properly displayed . |
| 26 | He decided to leave them to it , and as he came out on the landing he almost collided with Beryl who must have been eavesdropping . |
| 27 | Seve Ballesteros , who had shared the overnight lead on 67 , was making no further progress and was still five under par as he came in on the closing holes . |
| 28 | When at play , Jane watched him with delight as he rolled about on the floor with mirth at the English ‘ W ’ . |
| 29 | Andy Payton was denied with a good Bobby Mimms save as he burst through on the first occasion . |
| 30 | It sounded like a question , but he had no intention of waiting for her answer , as he dropped down on the bed beside her , lacing his fingers through her lustrous brunette tresses , controlling the movement of her head so she could not escape the seductive power of his mouth as he took her unwilling lips with practised artistry . |