Example sentences of "he [verb] [adv] on [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His instincts , honed over the years as he lived continuously on the threshold of danger , warned him that things were about to change . |
| 2 | Furthermore , when he checked back on the correlation between his simple lix values and the criterion of pooled estimates of difficulty , he found that the figure was 0.92 , which was exactly the same as that obtained from the multiple regression . |
| 3 | At the Chair he pricked his ears and sailed over the gaping ditch with such abandon that he pecked slightly on the landing side . |
| 4 | When he 's dried out , he goes back on the road , an entertainer for whom the drug of applause and audience-love assuages his insecurity . |
| 5 | When his mind 's on fisticuffs he sits in on the training sessions there . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Branch manager Richard Fairhurst took a back seat for the day , as he rode along on the back of a tandem . |
| 8 | He rides off on the bicycle , my bicycle , which is too small for him . |
| 9 | I was milking my goats in the field , and he got down on the ground and put his head near my foot . |
| 10 | Even when he was small , out hunting , and broke his arm , could n't wait until he got back on the horse , used his stock for a sling and rode home . ’ |
| 11 | We are not to know that new methods of correlation will not he developed ( as spores , hystrichospheres , etc. , have been developed in recent years ) to correlate the least promising.looking formations , Ultimately perhaps we shall have a little black box into which we only have to pop our rock specimen for its age to he read automatically on a dial . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | And er he sort of admitted that he lives absolutely on the fringe of the no go area . |
| 14 | He moved diagonally on the tennis court like a ballet dancer might on the stage . |
| 15 | He drew deeply on the cigarette — hand-rolled , Matthew could not help noticing and hoped no-one else had — in his holder . |
| 16 | He drew deeply on the cigarette and stared out at the darkening sea . |
| 17 | As he dwelt particularly on the menace of the French positions on the Left Bank , the Heir to the Throne must have had some difficulty hiding a note of ‘ I-told-so-you-so ’ For Falkenhayn , in his insistence on limiting the attack to one bank only , had stood in an isolation that was hardly splendid . |
| 18 | To steady himself he sank down on the side of the bed . |
| 19 | Iida 's aircraft was holed by Finn and other gunners and he crashed deliberately on a road near the officer 's quarters , one of the undercarriage wheels bounced through a house and the engine of the aircraft landed a ¼ mile away . |
| 20 | He sucked furiously on the joint , staring at the ceiling . |
| 21 | He sucked greedily on the cigar , like a heart patient needing oxygen . |
| 22 | With a meekness that made her feel mean , he knelt down on the floor and started to gather his cuttings together . |
| 23 | He knelt down on the sheet . |
| 24 | He squirmed nervously on the stool . |
| 25 | He messed about on the calculator . |
| 26 | He flailed around on the snow . |
| 27 | He came up on the train for a few days , very nervous , wearing his best suit . |
| 28 | Old Hewlett-Packard Co hands say that back in their day Lew Platt never looked to be a contender for the presidency : they are gratified to see him elevated since he came up on the Unix side and wonder how much should be read into that . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | He came in on the Tube as usual , and walked the last quarter-mile . |