Example sentences of "he [verb] [adv] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He made his way along the road until a colleague told him to sit down on the pavement . |
| 2 | He stayed with us for a while in Salisbury early in 1921 and I can still hear him thumping away on the piano singing his favourite song ‘ Signora ’ in a not very tuneful voice . |
| 3 | He frightened train crews who saw him walking aimlessly on the railway tracks as if he were a real person . |
| 4 | The industrialist MP Samuel Morley and others persuaded him to stand down on the grounds that ministers should not directly enter the political arena and Morley paid all his expenses when he gave up the contest . |
| 5 | Spencer by now was n't very pleased , Elstree were n't very thrilled about him landing back on the runway either , and with the hydraulic fluid gone , there were no flaps either . |
| 6 | The group , headed by Stanley Kalms , said his resignation would ‘ enable him to concentrate fully on the financial management and control of the group 's retail businesses . ’ |
| 7 | Something in her voice made him ease back on the throttle , decide not to pass the Renault Turbo lorry he 'd been stalking . |
| 8 | Did they want him to crack down on the rioters ? |
| 9 | I laid him further along on the pavement , under his broken and smashed shop front , which proclaimed his trade : Rabinowitz Tailors . |
| 10 | One morning , Santa found him lying down on the snow , staring at a dead flower with tears dropping off his little cheeks . |
| 11 | He collected his boarding card and found a seat in the cafeteria that allowed him to look down on the concourse . |
| 12 | The thief then bound his feet , wrists and mouth with tape and left him face down on the office floor before making off with the money in Barry 's car . |
| 13 | We 'll have to encourage him to put in on the table . |
| 14 | She heard him drop quietly on the other side , and draw the bolt . |
| 15 | DJAMOLODINE Abdoujaparov , the former Soviet sprinter whose erratic finishing caused him to crash spectacularly on the Champs-Elysees during the final stage of the Tour de France last July , was yesterday disqualified after winning the Belgian Classic from Ghent to Wevelgem for pulling the jersey of Italian Mario Cipollini . |
| 16 | It might be a potential signing for the groundsman — if he can spit half as well as his dad then we just get him to run around on the pitch for 20 mins … no need for sprinklers etc . |
| 17 | The effort made him flop forward on the table . |
| 18 | But her sudden command made him stand violently on the pedal and they were both jerked forward against their seat-belts . |
| 19 | She made him stand idly on the sidewalk while she made a big deal of paying the cab driver . |
| 20 | ‘ Can you honestly see him making out on the Island ? ’ |
| 21 | They certainly should not have been letting him curl up on the floor next to Badger . |
| 22 | Vincent liked to have him sitting drowsily on the floor of his studio on a few sacks while he worked . |
| 23 | I helped him sit down on the one centre thwart and arranged his legs as comfortably as possible , Harry cursing and wincing by turns . |
| 24 | She had watched him working delicately on the door , with all the attention to detail of the perfectionist , and had known him to be the sort who got what he wanted in life through hard work , never by taking the easy way out . |
| 25 | Margrida 's absence would enable her to tell him that she wished him to cut down on the pretending — and on his caresses . |
| 26 | His instincts , honed over the years as he lived continuously on the threshold of danger , warned him that things were about to change . |
| 27 | He lived right on the main road he was very vulnerable ! |
| 28 | ‘ He plays more on the left hand side which is not my favourite position , I prefer to play on the right . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | At the Chair he pricked his ears and sailed over the gaping ditch with such abandon that he pecked slightly on the landing side . |