Example sentences of "he [vb past] [adv] on the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He lived right on the main road he was very vulnerable ! |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 |
| 5 | ‘ So you 've been up the barrow , ’ Jos said out of the blue , as he lined up on the final double . |
| 6 | He drew up on the other side of the tall white gates and fished in his grey sack . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . ’ |
| 10 | He squirmed uncomfortably on the damp stone , and tried to look on the bright side . |
| 11 | He came up on the other side shaking dirt from his fine white feathers . |
| 12 | 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 |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | He screamed as he landed heavily on the vibrating flagstones . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | He worked consistently on the third act , and by the end of the year he had finished a draft of the entire play . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | He pulled up on the hard shoulder , switched off and got out . |
| 21 | With heart in mouth he pulled tight on the free end . |
| 22 | At four he lost only on the first and last outings ( beaten narrowly on both occasions ) of a sixteen-race campaign . |
| 23 | But he lost out on the First Division title because he was reluctant to strengthen the team . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | ‘ Well , he went back on the twenty-third of April 1950 . |
| 26 | He went back on the last-minute promise to them to delay the ratification of the Maastricht Treaty . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | She released him and he fell back on the crumpled bedclothes to stare up at her at first blankly . |
| 29 | ‘ 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 . |
| 30 | With his hands still covered in paint he lay down on the chilly sheets and waited for sleep to take his confusions away . |