Example sentences of "he [vb past] [adv prt] on a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They shouted at him and he rode off on a bicycle , later to be stopped by the police who had been alerted to the incident . |
| 2 | He accepted the devotion of a prostitute who anointed his feet with costly perfume , and he dined out on a number of occasions with tax collectors and sinners , who represented the social outcasts — the ‘ untouchables ’ of the day . |
| 3 | He came in on a boat , I suppose , and he plopped himself down and began making ukuleles , very good ones , and some fabulous guitars which are quite rare nowadays . |
| 4 | ‘ Except those missing forty-eight hours before he showed up on a roadside , ’ said Morton Stannard . |
| 5 | A college lecturer in Redcar was reduced to a nervous wreck and had to call the police to get rid of salesmen while in Northallerton a salesman suggested he bedded down on a couple 's sofa while they slept on £5,000 offer . |
| 6 | He cut in on a man who was starting to chat her up — someone who had once given him a bad review . |
| 7 | Les Dennis has been presenting ITV 's top game show for seven years and was just 14 years old when he started out on a career in showbusiness . |
| 8 | Les Dennis has been presenting ITV 's top game show for seven years and was just 14 years old when he started out on a career in show business . |
| 9 | He went out on a balcony to meet them . |
| 10 | It was about ninety pounds and he went out on a limb for it , too . |
| 11 | Adam paid the man and he went off on a bicycle , still wearing the knotted handkerchief on his head . |
| 12 | When he went off on a week 's holiday , I was asked to stand in experimentally for him . |
| 13 | At this point apparently , Pliny became unwell ; he lay down on a cloth spread out for him and twice asked for water to drink . |
| 14 | He sat down on a log and tried to perform what he thought of as the vanishing act , whereby you became insofar as it was possible a part of the surroundings : breathing , seeing , hearing only — merely an aspect of the place , a dimension , like the robin or the moss-covered log or the leafmould on which his feet rested . |
| 15 | He sat down on a sofa which he realised was slightly longer than his cubicle in the lodging house . |
| 16 | He sat down on a stone and put his head in his hands . |
| 17 | He sat down on a chair with his back to the window and lit a cigarette . |
| 18 | He sat down on a chair and took a guitar in his hands , but he did n't play it . |
| 19 | He sat down on a bench against the opposite wall and rested his arms on his knees , hands loosely clasped . |
| 20 | When Michele had settled her on the swing-seat , her legs up , her back against one padded arm , he sat down on a bench opposite and , eyes narrowed against the sun , invited , ‘ Go ahead . ’ |
| 21 | He sat down on a rock and tried to think . |
| 22 | In early June , poised between elation and despair , he set out on a walking tour with an amiably dull university friend , Joseph Hucks . |
| 23 | His wife and daughter were mugged and raped and he set out on a trail of revenge killings in cold blood , making himself bait for the muggers . |
| 24 | Immediately afterwards , he set off on a journey into Dorset , determined to repay Wordsworth 's visit of two months earlier . |
| 25 | Thomas Hargreaves , 39 , whose parents live at Llangoed , has not been seen since last Thursday , when he set off on a hike through a forest towards a glacier , close to south east Alaskan town of Juneau . |
| 26 | He ended up on a drip in the Princess Margaret hospital . |
| 27 | The care and attention he received was first class throughout his stay and although he missed out on a family Christmas at home , the staff more than made up for it and he was showered with extra presents which helped to speed his recovery . |