Example sentences of "he [vb past] [adv prt] [adv] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He cruised along contentedly on the bridle until being sent into the lead a quarter of a mile out and then galloped on resolutely to win by one and a half lengths . |
| 2 | He wriggled back further on the bed till he was leaning up against the wall . |
| 3 | He went out late on the same evening , God knows where , and was found hanging from a beam under London Bridge . |
| 4 | He sat down again on the very edge of the chair and they drank the tea in silence . |
| 5 | Then he sat down again on the golden stool which had been placed on the balcony of the chamber . |
| 6 | He sat down again on the stool opposite his former student . |
| 7 | His voice tailed off and he sat down heavily on the arm of a chair . |
| 8 | She was conscious of fitzAlan 's sharp glance at her sudden murmur of laughter , then he sat down heavily on the bench , wincing at the jolt to his arm , and gestured towards the bulky pack by the door . |
| 9 | He sat down silently on the floor against one of the chairs . |
| 10 | And Steve obediently went off , taking with him a jar of Marmite in a garden trowel as a substitute for coal in a shovel , and he stood out there on the front porch in the cold listening to the silence and looking at the stars , waiting for them to let him in on the last stroke of Big Ben on the radio : a faint , feeble echo of some once meaningful ritual , though what it had meant or now could mean nobody there knew or had ever known . |