Example sentences of "he [verb] [adv prt] on the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 |
| 2 | ‘ So you 've been up the barrow , ’ Jos said out of the blue , as he lined up on the final double . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | He drew up on the other side of the tall white gates and fished in his grey sack . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He came up on the other side shaking dirt from his fine white feathers . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 12 | He pulled up on the hard shoulder , switched off and got out . |
| 13 | He went back on the last-minute promise to them to delay the ratification of the Maastricht Treaty . |
| 14 | She released him and he fell back on the crumpled bedclothes to stare up at her at first blankly . |
| 15 | ‘ White spent much of his life balanced on the boundary between crankiness and brilliance , ’ continues Girouard ; ‘ in the end he fell off on the wrong side , and a large proportion of his last years were wasted in trying to prove that Shakespeare was Bacon . |
| 16 | He falls back on the popular device for explaining why the working class fail to live up to what is expected of them — they are reduced to mindless automatons , responding only to right-wing media messages . |
| 17 | With his hands still covered in paint he lay down on the chilly sheets and waited for sleep to take his confusions away . |
| 18 | No wonder Uncle Mick grinned as he looked down on the nearly-elegant sitting-room . |
| 19 | In the dying firelight he looked down on the sleeping face of Joe the Fish . |
| 20 | He looked down on the pretty garden and saw the two of them snoring there , their front claws tucked neatly under their chins which rested on silk cushions and their tails dipped tidily into the pond whose waters did not stir enough to move their dreams to wildness . |
| 21 | He looked down on the bent head , but there was no response from Millie . |
| 22 | Small and unceasingly chirpy , he grew up on the central coast , near Taree , one of 10 children of the manager of Burrell Creek 's post office and general store , which Johnny himself ended up managing . |
| 23 | He is a great example to anyone who has a setback and it is marvellous to hear how he has put adversity behind him as he sets out on the long slog round the tough pro circuit once again . |
| 24 | He leaned back on the padded headboard and smiled at Shelley . |
| 25 | He struck out on the diked path that sheltered a corn-field from the sea wind . |
| 26 | He sat down on the far side of the room and I caught only a brief view of him through the dancers , but it was undoubtedly Ralph Pike still at large . |
| 27 | He sat down on the bare rock and shook his head . |
| 28 | ‘ I did n't know you were home , ’ said Terry , as he sat down on the adjacent bed . |
| 29 | He sat down on the top step of the landing outside numbers 3 and 4 . |
| 30 | Tired of it all , he sat down on the thin , wet , short grass . |