Example sentences of "he [verb] [adv] on the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The group , headed by Stanley Kalms , said his resignation would ‘ enable him to concentrate fully on the financial management and control of the group 's retail businesses . ’ |
| 2 | She heard him drop quietly on the other side , and draw the bolt . |
| 3 | I helped him sit down on the one centre thwart and arranged his legs as comfortably as possible , Harry cursing and wincing by turns . |
| 4 | He lived right on the main road he was very vulnerable ! |
| 5 | ‘ He plays more on the left hand side which is not my favourite position , I prefer to play on the right . |
| 6 | As he passed again on the other side of the road on his way back forty minutes later he was caught up in the very worst time of day for traffic . |
| 7 | Edward did not create it from nothing , but he founded a new town — King 's Town — on the old site , which he manipulated especially on the western side . |
| 8 | 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 |
| 9 | ‘ So you 've been up the barrow , ’ Jos said out of the blue , as he lined up on the final double . |
| 10 | But neither does he fall back on the traditional liberal solution of improving educational provision , since he has no illusions about the difficulties of inculcating the civic virtues necessary for proper development . |
| 11 | He drew up on the other side of the tall white gates and fished in his grey sack . |
| 12 | Again and again he bore down on the Annamese woman and as his movements quickened he kept his gaze fixed challengingly on Flavia Sherman 's face . |
| 13 | He held another Council in May 1108 on the same model as the last , with a similar representation of lay magnates , but on this occasion he concentrated entirely on the administrative problems arising from his earlier decree against clerical marriage . |
| 14 | He dwelt especially on the insulating and prophylactic properties of excessive flesh , remarking at one point , ‘ Without the upholstery of embonpoint the body is a mere skeletal spring , ready to uncoil its very mortality . ’ |
| 15 | One man who could have a busy day on Sunday if he drops in on the above conference will be Michael Billington , the theatre critic of The Guardian . |
| 16 | He squirmed uncomfortably on the damp stone , and tried to look on the bright side . |
| 17 | He came up on the other side shaking dirt from his fine white feathers . |
| 18 | Well erm he came back on the twenty fourth , no , never mind that we we 've been to-ing and fro-ing have Asian Associates and I and |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | He passes by on the other side of the road and once he 's well past I pop up to watch him through the rear window . |
| 21 | At the other end of North Africa , on 8 November , Anglo-American forces had landed in Algeria , and Rommel had retreated right back to the Agheila position , where he dug in on the defensive . |
| 22 | He screamed as he landed heavily on the vibrating flagstones . |
| 23 | He served also on the next major court to try James Hamilton ( third Marquis and first Duke of Hamilton ) , Arthur Capel ( first Baron Capel of Hadham ) , and Sir Henry Rich ( first Earl of Holland ) [ qq.v. ] for treason , signing their death-warrant on 6 March 1649 . |
| 24 | ‘ He will be satisfied if he gets back on the Irish team , but it is not possibility he could push himself right to the forefront . ’ |
| 25 | He achieved little on the first day that he spent ‘ in the field ’ but on the second day he got into conversation with a group of men about a puppy that one was carrying . |
| 26 | He worked consistently on the third act , and by the end of the year he had finished a draft of the entire play . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | He pulled up on the hard shoulder , switched off and got out . |
| 29 | With heart in mouth he pulled tight on the free end . |
| 30 | At four he lost only on the first and last outings ( beaten narrowly on both occasions ) of a sixteen-race campaign . |