Example sentences of "he [adv] [vb past] on [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the morning of Saturday 12 November 1715 he suddenly advanced on Preston with six regiments of cavalry and one of foot . |
| 2 | I ca n't remember what that bit was , I think he just stood on top |
| 3 | 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 . " |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | He further announced on Jan. 29 , 1990 , that 2,750 military and civilian personnel ( including their dependants ) would be withdrawn from a number of bases in the United Kingdom and elsewhere ( for other announcements of US defence expenditure cuts and for European concerns about reduced US miliary commitment to Europe see p. 37226 ) . |
| 7 | He usually came on Wednesday afternoons because Alan is almost always here then . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He also worked on economics , encouraged by his friend John Maynard ( later Baron ) Keynes [ q.v. ] , |
| 10 | During that period , he also worked on export sales . |
| 11 | He also called on ANC president Nelson Mandela and Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi of Inkatha to meet as soon as possible to end political violence in the region . |
| 12 | He also called on Israel to freeze its policy of building settlements in the occupied territories ( the USA was reported to have subsequently theatened Israel with financial penalties if it failed to halt its settlement activity — see pp. 38310 ; 38359 ) . |
| 13 | He also called on President René to demonstrate his commitment to reform by appointing three opposition members to his Cabinet within the next two months . |
| 14 | He also commented on Pinus rigida , pitch or Virginian pine , reaching great height in its native country , and there were many at Woburn , ‘ twenty feet high , though not of many years standing and keep pace with the other kinds of Pines and Firs in the same plantation ’ . |
| 15 | He frequently went on excursions with Hooker and his students , and wrote for over forty years on the geographical distribution of the British flora ( Fletcher , op. cit . ) . |
| 16 | He refused to compromise in any way and , throughout his long association with the club , only mastered two words in English , both of which he frequently practised on referees . |
| 17 | He then served on committees to set up a republican government and abolish kingship and the House of Lords . |
| 18 | He then turned on Chlothar , but his own death , from dysentery , and the subsequent elimination of his family in 613 , led to the reunification of the Frankish kingdom and brought to a close one period of Merovingian civil war . |
| 19 | He was so drunk that he almost fell on top of her . |
| 20 | Then , as if satisfied that there was no one about , he hurried across the glade , where he almost trod on Rosalind 's letter , which was lying face-upwards on the grass . |
| 21 | However , he unexpectedly declared on June 16 that the founding of a Russian CP " should not be delayed " , his remarks being addressed to members of the CPSU Russian buro ( set up in December 1989 and chaired by him — see p. 37128 ) , representatives of regional party organizations in Russia , and the organizing committee of the forthcoming conference . |
| 22 | Chancellor Kohl said that Germany would remain a " nation of friendship for foreigners " but stressed that the right of asylum should not be abused , a point which he again emphasized on Oct. 13 when he described those who attacked foreigners as " fools and criminals " bringing shame on Germany . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Nevertheless , it is obvious that by limiting himself to his own observations in a remote valley , he would soon exhaust his material : he therefore drew on Dorothy 's Journals and upon other people 's experiences , for example in Alice Fell , The Solitary Reaper ( observed by Wilkinson who ‘ Passed a female who was reaping alone ’ ) , and The Kitten and Falling Leaves ( rough draft by Coleridge printed in Notebooks , vol. i , 1813 ) . |
| 25 | Thomas seems to have reconsidered his allegiance by 1471 , although it is possible that he actually died on Warwick 's side and that his inclusion among those remembered springs from his father 's later links with Gloucester . |
| 26 | Thomas seems to have reconsidered his allegiance by 1471 , although it is possible that he actually died on Warwick 's side and that his inclusion among those remembered springs from his father 's later links with Gloucester . |
| 27 | He actually danced on point , in spite of his uncertain technique . |
| 28 | Did you , did hear Bedge what he actually did on Friday ? |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Returning to England in 1906 , he subsequently advised on mines in Russia , South Africa , Canada , and elsewhere . |