Example sentences of "[adv] he [vb past] on [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Five minutes later he flopped on top of me . |
| 2 | After reversing one move his feet slipped , followed rapidly by his hands , and a moment later he landed on top of me with a crash of flailing limbs and a clatter of runners . |
| 3 | Just over three weeks later he won on Physicist at Fontwell Park . |
| 4 | Here he embarked on research into poverty and the land question , publishing The South African Agrarian Problem ( 1919 ) . |
| 5 | And he come there and luckily he went on top of the table to lie down . |
| 6 | But then he went on television with his wife Hillary , a forceful , highly political lawyer . |
| 7 | Uncle Bill let out a yell and kicked him away , then he snapped on Captain 's lead and tied him to a chair in the corner of the kitchen . |
| 8 | No one understands how he got on stage and how he got near the president . |
| 9 | Naturally Marx started by explaining the historical mechanism and inner working of the social system which dominated the condition of the working class at the time when he wrote on capitalism . |
| 10 | This trait sometimes created difficulties when he served on university bodies . |
| 11 | Secrett , aged 38 and formerly at the International Institute of Environment and Development , spent eight years with FoE in the 1980s , when he campaigned on wildlife , rain forests and the countryside . |
| 12 | It also meant he only had to walk across the Paddock when he went on night duty . ’ |
| 13 | fulfilled all those requests except for promptness ; that was met by when he nominated on Christmas Eve , a month before taking office himself . |
| 14 | York town crier John Redpath , who gained national notoriety earlier this year when he appeared on TV in a Liberal Democrat party political broadcast , is certainly glad of the tourists because otherwise he would be out of a job . |
| 15 | " Why are they doing all this work so early in the morning ? " she asked Captain Duro when he appeared on deck looking as spruce and polished as he had on the first day she met him . |
| 16 | Outspoken radio presenter Baker infuriated Reg Burr last season when he called on air for the dismissal of former manager Bruce Rioch , now boss of Bolton . |
| 17 | A MEMORIAL to police sergeant Alan King will mark the spot where he died on duty . |