Example sentences of "he [verb] [adv prt] on the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I helped him sit down on the one centre thwart and arranged his legs as comfortably as possible , Harry cursing and wincing by turns . |
| 2 | 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 |
| 3 | ‘ So you 've been up the barrow , ’ Jos said out of the blue , as he lined up on the final double . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | He drew up on the other side of the tall white gates and fished in his grey sack . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | He came up on the other side shaking dirt from his fine white feathers . |
| 9 | 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 |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | He pulled up on the hard shoulder , switched off and got out . |
| 16 | But he lost out on the First Division title because he was reluctant to strengthen the team . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | ‘ Well , he went back on the twenty-third of April 1950 . |
| 19 | He went back on the last-minute promise to them to delay the ratification of the Maastricht Treaty . |
| 20 | When he was told that what he had said was all very well but a bit negative , he fell back on the 13 wasted years that he has been in opposition . |
| 21 | She released him and he fell back on the crumpled bedclothes to stare up at her at first blankly . |
| 22 | ‘ 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | With his hands still covered in paint he lay down on the chilly sheets and waited for sleep to take his confusions away . |
| 25 | In one of his rare public reflective moments , he looked back on the three women in his early life , Mud , Lorraine and June , with gratitude because they gave him a good start , independence and the belief that he could always take care of himself , come what may . |
| 26 | He looked back on the last ten days , reflecting on the events which had brought him to where he now was . |
| 27 | No wonder Uncle Mick grinned as he looked down on the nearly-elegant sitting-room . |
| 28 | In the dying firelight he looked down on the sleeping face of Joe the Fish . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | He looked down on the bent head , but there was no response from Millie . |