Example sentences of "he [verb] [adv prt] on [art] " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Something in her voice made him ease back on the throttle , decide not to pass the Renault Turbo lorry he 'd been stalking . |
| 5 | Did they want him to crack down on the rioters ? |
| 6 | I laid him further along on the pavement , under his broken and smashed shop front , which proclaimed his trade : Rabinowitz Tailors . |
| 7 | One morning , Santa found him lying down on the snow , staring at a dead flower with tears dropping off his little cheeks . |
| 8 | He collected his boarding card and found a seat in the cafeteria that allowed him to look down on the concourse . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | We 'll have to encourage him to put in on the table . |
| 11 | Havis persuaded British Airways to let him ride along on a New York-to-London Concorde trip . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Nell helped him to lie down on a blanket , supporting his head with another . |
| 14 | ‘ Can you honestly see him making out on the Island ? ’ |
| 15 | They certainly should not have been letting him curl up on the floor next to Badger . |
| 16 | I helped him sit down on the one centre thwart and arranged his legs as comfortably as possible , Harry cursing and wincing by turns . |
| 17 | She watched him working out on an exercise bike and said : ‘ There 's nothing wrong with slim people . ’ |
| 18 | Margrida 's absence would enable her to tell him that she wished him to cut down on the pretending — and on his caresses . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | When his mind 's on fisticuffs he sits in on the training sessions there . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Branch manager Richard Fairhurst took a back seat for the day , as he rode along on the back of a tandem . |
| 25 | He rides off on the bicycle , my bicycle , which is too small for him . |
| 26 | 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 |
| 27 | I was milking my goats in the field , and he got down on the ground and put his head near my foot . |
| 28 | 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 . ’ |
| 29 | He levelled out on a parallel course . |
| 30 | He looks back on a stimulating and happy relationship with his fellow Board members . |