Example sentences of "he [adv] [verb] on [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I ca n't remember what that bit was , I think he just stood on top |
| 2 | The cost in horses and men was heavy , and the feeding of the former a significant outlay , especially when corn prices were high : " Robert Russell , proprietor of the daily fly wagons which set out from London … to Falmouth , feels much pleasure in being able , owing to the blessings derived from the late harvest , to reduce the advances he lately made on carriage . " |
| 3 | That it was all undignified , that it was really rather unpleasant , that it was somehow dehumanizing for Harold — these considerations went by the board as he finally rolled on top of her , grunting fiercely in a tone no one at Magdalen would have recognized . |
| 4 | Although he now had the potential earning power of any major movie star , he nevertheless remained on unemployment benefit while waiting for his agent to find the right new vehicle for him . |
| 5 | ‘ Do not think of me as your adversary — he already exists on Earth . |
| 6 | A conventional outlook dominates his approach , but he still thrives on variety . |
| 7 | He also put on sale a long pamphlet of his own , National Socialism Now , to justify his secession from Mosley and the new course he had chosen . |
| 8 | He also worked on economics , encouraged by his friend John Maynard ( later Baron ) Keynes [ q.v. ] , |
| 9 | During that period , he also worked on export sales . |
| 10 | Perhaps he was going to Porteneil to get drunk in the Rock Hotel , or perhaps he was off to Inverness , where he often goes on business he prefers to keep mysterious , but I suspected that it was really something to do with Eric . |
| 11 | His two passions were roses ( he often exhibited on behalf of his employer at the Windsor Rose Show ) and his onion bed . |
| 12 | He frequently broadcasts on radio and TV and has three children |
| 13 | He frequently broadcasts on radio and TV and has three children |
| 14 | He was so drunk that he almost fell on top of her . |
| 15 | In 1871 he again talked on dust and smoke , describing a respirator he had invented using charcoal to absorb noxious fumes ; this device to assist firemen was in the Royal Institution tradition going back to Davy 's miner 's lamp . |
| 16 | He absolutely thrives on body contact because he 's so powerful . |
| 17 | He actually danced on point , in spite of his uncertain technique . |
| 18 | He never goes on patrol . |
| 19 | He never does interviews and he never goes on telly . |
| 20 | So far as we know he was never a merchant , and he never went on crusade , but had he been he would have experienced all the five ways in which travel fundamentally impinged on the folk of the twelfth century ; and if we consider the impact made by the wandering scholars and the growing universities , the flow of litigants and diplomats to and from the papal Curia , the countless pilgrims and pilgrimages , the crusades at their most popular , and the commercial revolution upon the world of the central Middle Ages — then a love of travel and a readiness to travel must be accounted one of the major catalysts of change . |