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

No	Sentence
1	Oldfield off he goes again on another march forward Thomson no free kick given Pearce in possession he clashes with Agnew and Oldfield brings the ball down .
2	‘ Scared ? ’ he asked casually on one occasion when going down a steep hill that had a sheer drop on one side .
3	He got up on one elbow .
4	It 's this thought that remains uppermost in the mind of coach Ian Birtwell as he looks back on those sixteen memorable days in October when Canada came charging so boldly from the ranks of the ‘ possibles ’ to achieve quarter-final status .
5	He looks down on hi life .
6	He lives here on that hill behind the village .
7	Redhead , however , is also a great country-lover and he writes eloquently on this theme for the magazine Country Living .
8	He recalled how on one occasion when on a sea rescue in the English Channel a person obviously in fear of drowning was shouting for help .
9	Even her voice was different and he came up on one elbow to look into her face , seeing all the fire die out of her .
10	Vincente seemed a pleasant enough bloke when he turned up on that first morning .
11	However he acts best on soft ground and he is unlikely to find that at Liverpool .
12	Chatam remains reasonably treated on a 12lb higher mark than last year , he acts well on soft ground , is ideally suited by Newbury 's left-handed track , and the weight of ante-post money suggests he will be spot on for his reappearance .
13	‘ How long did he spend there on that occasion ? ’
14	He recalls in On Some of the Mental Affections of Childhood and Youth ( 1887 ) that in early life he had seen that ‘ children who were afflicted by mental alienation or mental incapacity of any kind ’ were categorized as idiots and considered incapable of responding to help .
15	Idealising his tall , slender ladies , he dwells lovingly on tiny feet from which their champions remove dainty shoes .
16	He commented specifically on this and his use of the Faulkner quotation by saying , ‘ When the writer has some urgency to speak , the subject matter becomes almost irrelevant . ’
17	Then , after a whispered word with one of the cousins , Angel and he galloped up on either side of her and neatly lifted her off the little black mare .
18	He arrived late on 22 June , and disappeared early on the Sunday morning of the 23rd .
19	He arrived home on 16 January 1779 , just before his 23rd birthday .
20	He arrived home on 4 June , to a passionate reunion with his wife ( if his letters , full of expressions of his desire for her , are to be believed ) .
21	He ducked down on one knee and said to himself , ‘ Sasaki , gambare !
22	Then he walked away on bare feet , his bundle ( or cross ) on his shoulder .
23	He walks round the streets he walked round on that first morning .
24	For the next eleven years he shipped out on various vessels as boy steward , able seaman or boatswain-second mate and sometimes as cook .
25	The afternoons he spent out on long walks or in South London attending classes on meditation .
26	He touched lovingly on all the details , the white deal working table , studies on the wall , in one corner a closet with their bottles and pots , and his books .
27	He walks through there and he gets up on that shed at the bottom of the garden next door but one .
28	He started afresh on this work which appeared privately in 1893 as Rules for Compositors and Readers at the University Press , Oxford .
29	That 's one way to put it , anyway and he said that and he said he lost out on six hundred pounds ?
30	He then settled in California , where despite occasional returns to the theatre ( notably in the first production of Bertolt Brecht 's The Life of Galileo in 1947 , which he also adapted ) he focused mainly on such films as Jamaica Inn ( 1939 ) , The Hunchback of Notre Dame ( 1939 ) , Witness for the Prosecution ( 1957 ) , Spartacus ( 1960 ) , and Advise and Consent ( 1962 ) , returning only rarely to Britain and only notably for David Lean 's Hobson 's Choice in 1954 .