Example sentences of "[subord] he [vb past] [adv prt] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It caught him full in the middle of his back , throwing him into the air before he crashed down on the cobbles . |
| 5 | 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 |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The passageway outside was still reverberating from the crash when he started in on the door of the next apartment . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Two things mattered to Mr Major when he set off on the campaign road a month ago . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | It must have been quite a shock when he turned up on the doorstep . ’ |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | When at play , Jane watched him with delight as he rolled about on the floor with mirth at the English ‘ W ’ . |
| 18 | Andy Payton was denied with a good Bobby Mimms save as he burst through on the first occasion . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | No wonder Uncle Mick grinned as he looked down on the nearly-elegant sitting-room . |
| 21 | He was beheaded by local peasants as he lay down on the hill to sleep after a large meal of local sheep . |
| 22 | Branch manager Richard Fairhurst took a back seat for the day , as he rode along on the back of a tandem . |
| 23 | I recall Hamish in one of his writings saying that as he walked along on the way to his next objective he was reading a paperback novel — how more blinkered than that can you get ! ? |
| 24 | ‘ I did n't know you were home , ’ said Terry , as he sat down on the adjacent bed . |
| 25 | She perched herself uncomfortably on the only chair in the room as he sat down on the bed . |
| 26 | Dr Neil swallowed again as he sat down on the bed , not too near , not too far away . |
| 27 | ‘ Yes — yes , of course , ’ she murmured , taking a quick , nervous sip of coffee as he sat down on the bed beside her . |
| 28 | ‘ So you 've been up the barrow , ’ Jos said out of the blue , as he lined up on the final double . |