Example sentences of "he [verb] [adv prt] on [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A horse will soon become used to the excitement of a show provided that he goes out on a regular basis from an early age . |
| 2 | 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 |
| 3 | He levelled out on a parallel course . |
| 4 | He looks back on a stimulating and happy relationship with his fellow Board members . |
| 5 | ‘ So you 've been up the barrow , ’ Jos said out of the blue , as he lined up on the final double . |
| 6 | But neither does he fall back on the traditional liberal solution of improving educational provision , since he has no illusions about the difficulties of inculcating the civic virtues necessary for proper development . |
| 7 | He drew up on the other side of the tall white gates and fished in his grey sack . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | One man who could have a busy day on Sunday if he drops in on the above conference will be Michael Billington , the theatre critic of The Guardian . |
| 10 | He came up on the other side shaking dirt from his fine white feathers . |
| 11 | Upon reaching retirement age Len found that he missed the job so much he came back on a part-time basis . |
| 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 | When the Friar left the children beneath the tree he went hurriedly but surprisingly lightly for a man of his bulk through the bushes until he came out on a narrow path that twisted this way and that into a deep ravine both sides of which were dark with yews . |
| 15 | In the late afternoon , slow to go home , he dropped in on an elderly doctor friend and played tennis . |
| 16 | He passes by on the other side of the road and once he 's well past I pop up to watch him through the rear window . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | ‘ He will be satisfied if he gets back on the Irish team , but it is not possibility he could push himself right to the forefront . ’ |
| 19 | His ears burned hot : the exploding stars , he could almost smell the singe , hear the crackle ; seeing colours never seen , for , in his agony , caught in shock , screaming his tortured soul , he swung out on a new dimension . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | He pulled up on the hard shoulder , switched off and got out . |
| 22 | But he lost out on the First Division title because he was reluctant to strengthen the team . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Me , myself , and I. ’ After losing in the Gotcha Pro early that summer on the South Side of Oahu , he went off on a self-destructive bender . |
| 25 | He went off on a political career and before long was a Member of the European Parliament , always in the news as he made himself available for interviews and revealed a great flair for leading controversial campaigns . |
| 26 | ‘ Well , he went back on the twenty-third of April 1950 . |
| 27 | He went back on the last-minute promise to them to delay the ratification of the Maastricht Treaty . |
| 28 | He went down on a loose ball and my boot landed on him . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | She released him and he fell back on the crumpled bedclothes to stare up at her at first blankly . |