Example sentences of "he [vb past] [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 | He drew up on the other side of the tall white gates and fished in his grey sack . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | He came up on the other side shaking dirt from his fine white feathers . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | He pulled up on the hard shoulder , switched off and got out . |
| 9 | He went back on the last-minute promise to them to delay the ratification of the Maastricht Treaty . |
| 10 | She released him and he fell back on the crumpled bedclothes to stare up at her at first blankly . |
| 11 | ‘ 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 . |
| 12 | With his hands still covered in paint he lay down on the chilly sheets and waited for sleep to take his confusions away . |
| 13 | No wonder Uncle Mick grinned as he looked down on the nearly-elegant sitting-room . |
| 14 | In the dying firelight he looked down on the sleeping face of Joe the Fish . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | He looked down on the bent head , but there was no response from Millie . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | He leaned back on the padded headboard and smiled at Shelley . |
| 19 | He struck out on the diked path that sheltered a corn-field from the sea wind . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | He sat down on the bare rock and shook his head . |
| 22 | ‘ I did n't know you were home , ’ said Terry , as he sat down on the adjacent bed . |
| 23 | He sat down on the top step of the landing outside numbers 3 and 4 . |
| 24 | Tired of it all , he sat down on the thin , wet , short grass . |
| 25 | He sat down on the wooden chair and I sat on the bed . |
| 26 | He chopped back on the right engine , closed it down . |
| 27 | And he accepts that he set out on the lonely road to stardom too early in life . |
| 28 | He set out on the infamous traverse , then decided I was not up to it and we must engineer a retreat . |
| 29 | He picked up on the young man 's unease , he recalled his own unlicensed ranting , he sensed the quarryman 's fear of him . |