Example sentences of "he [verb] on the [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ginny left him brooding on the past in front of a game show on television . |
| 2 | Michael looked up from where he knelt on the floor in front of the old armchair , his books spread out on the chair . |
| 3 | They talked for hours , and as he piled on the detail in his report , so Donleavy became ever more thoughtful and preoccupied . |
| 4 | He finished on the rostrum in three of the first four GPs ( ignition failure put him out of the fourth ) and he beat John Kocinski in stunning style to win the fifth GP of the season at the Nurburgring . |
| 5 | Yes , Uncle … he collapsed on the floor in the studio … |
| 6 | ' — another thing : what the fuck was he doing on the roof in the first place ? ’ |
| 7 | If a character simply jumps in , he lands on the floor in location 63 . |
| 8 | The son of another Civizade who was , in 945/1539 , to become Mufti , the younger Civizade was born in 937/1530–1 and studied first under his father , with whom he went on the pilgrimage in 950/1544 , his father having just previously been removed from the Muftilik . |
| 9 | Precisely when and in what circumstances Molla Fenari returned to the Ottoman lands is not entirely clear , though both Ibn Hajar and Taskopruzade assert that he had returned by the time he went on the pilgrimage in 822/1419 . |
| 10 | All three write that he went on the pilgrimage in 822 , al-Makrizi saying that he had gone by way of Damascus , Ibn Hajar and al-Sayrafi possibly implying that he went from Jerusalem since they write that he " returned " there after the pilgrimage : the two versions are not , of course , mutually exclusive in any case , and the latter two authors may well mean no more than that he returned [ from the pilgrimage ] to Jerusalem . |
| 11 | He died on the scaffold in Aylesbury market square on 28 March 1845 , after confessing to the murder while in prison . |
| 12 | That very same evening he appeared on the bandstand in Woodford Square and gave his first speech under the auspices of the P.E.M. The speech turned out to be nothing less than a vitriolic attack on the Commission , which he portrayed as an organisation run by ‘ hide- bound conservatives in the British Colonial service ’ . |
| 13 | Well , it 's the way he spoke on the phone in the first place ! |
| 14 | Its members saw it as further evidence of his obsession for being Patrick 's Sacred Keeper , the title of the biography he wrote on the poet in 1979 . |
| 15 | He afterwards kept telephoning other Harvard dealers , pointing out that he could say what he wanted on the phone in his new place of employment as the calls were unrecorded . |
| 16 | This was a process which fascinated George Curzon , the future Viceroy of India , when he travelled on the line in 1888 soon after its opening . |
| 17 | He stood on the verandah in his own ward and stared out into the darkness . |
| 18 | He stood on the table in one lesson and went like this , ‘ grrr ! ’ |