Example sentences of "[adv] he [verb] on [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Perhaps he lives on newsprint , like a little hamster .
2 Five minutes later he flopped on top of me .
3 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 .
4 Just over three weeks later he won on Physicist at Fontwell Park .
5 But that was 20 years ago , now he concentrates on executive recruitment .
6 Here he embarked on research into poverty and the land question , publishing The South African Agrarian Problem ( 1919 ) .
7 And he come there and luckily he went on top of the table to lie down .
8 But then he went on television with his wife Hillary , a forceful , highly political lawyer .
9 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 .
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