Example sentences of "he [verb] [adv] [adv] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The grasping young usurer forces him to bear very hard on the firm 's debtors and to carry all the odium that this entails . |
| 2 | At the same time , erm if his mother 's death intensified his illness , it also freed him to concentrate more fully on the writing of his novel . |
| 3 | This flexibility allows the exporter to let the option lapse if the order falls through or if exchange rate movements allow him to deal more advantageously on the spot market . |
| 4 | He cruised along contentedly on the bridle until being sent into the lead a quarter of a mile out and then galloped on resolutely to win by one and a half lengths . |
| 5 | He trudges along there on a Sunday , in hat , tie , dark suit . |
| 6 | He served not only on the Royal Commission for the reform of Oxford , but also on the one that looked into scientific education , and drafted most of its final report . |
| 7 | He wriggled back further on the bed till he was leaning up against the wall . |
| 8 | He went out late on the same evening , God knows where , and was found hanging from a beam under London Bridge . |
| 9 | We brought him to Lingfield last week and he went so well on the sand , we thought he had a chance today , ’ said the trainer . |
| 10 | He circled once more on the mild wind and finally , without looking back , he set course to the north , to try to find the distant beloved place called Cape Wrath where once , so long ago , he had been born . |
| 11 | My father come up to school , he come up there on a bike to see the schoolmaster and get me out to get a load of hay home . |
| 12 | His limbs ceased to complain about the riding , and he slept more easily on the hard ground at night . |
| 13 | He sat down again on the very edge of the chair and they drank the tea in silence . |
| 14 | Then he sat down again on the golden stool which had been placed on the balcony of the chamber . |
| 15 | He sat down again on the stool opposite his former student . |
| 16 | He sat down heavily on a two-seater sofa upholstered in the palest of pinks , and pulled off his shoes . |
| 17 | His voice tailed off and he sat down heavily on the arm of a chair . |
| 18 | She was conscious of fitzAlan 's sharp glance at her sudden murmur of laughter , then he sat down heavily on the bench , wincing at the jolt to his arm , and gestured towards the bulky pack by the door . |
| 19 | He sat down silently on the floor against one of the chairs . |
| 20 | His legs began to feel weak and he sat down hard on a red plastic and chrome chair , while he held his sandwich suspended half-way to his mouth . |
| 21 | He sat down miserably on a large rock , took out his pipe , and found a match to light it . |
| 22 | And Steve obediently went off , taking with him a jar of Marmite in a garden trowel as a substitute for coal in a shovel , and he stood out there on the front porch in the cold listening to the silence and looking at the stars , waiting for them to let him in on the last stroke of Big Ben on the radio : a faint , feeble echo of some once meaningful ritual , though what it had meant or now could mean nobody there knew or had ever known . |