Example sentences of "he [verb] [adv] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | His instincts , honed over the years as he lived continuously on the threshold of danger , warned him that things were about to change . |
| 2 | He lived right on the main road he was very vulnerable ! |
| 3 | ‘ He plays more on the left hand side which is not my favourite position , I prefer to play on the right . |
| 4 | At the Chair he pricked his ears and sailed over the gaping ditch with such abandon that he pecked slightly on the landing side . |
| 5 | As he passed again on the other side of the road on his way back forty minutes later he was caught up in the very worst time of day for traffic . |
| 6 | Edward did not create it from nothing , but he founded a new town — King 's Town — on the old site , which he manipulated especially on the western side . |
| 7 | And er he sort of admitted that he lives absolutely on the fringe of the no go area . |
| 8 | He moved diagonally on the tennis court like a ballet dancer might on the stage . |
| 9 | Past Ruthyn and Clocaenog and into the Cambrian mountains and the Berwyns , hampered by vile weather , and impeded by swollen streams and misty hills , he moved methodically on the lines laid down for him , and made no contact with any substantial enemy . |
| 10 | He drew deeply on the cigarette — hand-rolled , Matthew could not help noticing and hoped no-one else had — in his holder . |
| 11 | He drew deeply on the cigarette and stared out at the darkening sea . |
| 12 | He held another Council in May 1108 on the same model as the last , with a similar representation of lay magnates , but on this occasion he concentrated entirely on the administrative problems arising from his earlier decree against clerical marriage . |
| 13 | As he dwelt particularly on the menace of the French positions on the Left Bank , the Heir to the Throne must have had some difficulty hiding a note of ‘ I-told-so-you-so ’ For Falkenhayn , in his insistence on limiting the attack to one bank only , had stood in an isolation that was hardly splendid . |
| 14 | He dwelt especially on the insulating and prophylactic properties of excessive flesh , remarking at one point , ‘ Without the upholstery of embonpoint the body is a mere skeletal spring , ready to uncoil its very mortality . ’ |
| 15 | He sucked furiously on the joint , staring at the ceiling . |
| 16 | He sucked greedily on the cigar , like a heart patient needing oxygen . |
| 17 | He squirmed nervously on the stool . |
| 18 | He squirmed uncomfortably on the damp stone , and tried to look on the bright side . |
| 19 | He woke late on the Sunday morning after their first week , sent Ingrid back to her Gasthaus , and wandered down to the coffee shop where several of them came and ate a late breakfast . |
| 20 | He dug chiefly on the Duke of Bedford 's land at Sibson , encouraged by finds made during construction of the Northampton -Peterborough railway . |
| 21 | As he waited for it to be answered he drummed lightly on the desk top . |
| 22 | ‘ We should be campaigning all through the holidays after a hard session , ’ he commented gloomily on the October proposal . |
| 23 | Duclos-Lasalle , 37 , who is likely to retire at the end of the season , converted two previous second places , a fourth and sixth , into victory when he arrived alone on the velodrome at Roubaix to one of the warmest welcomes in the long history of the race . |
| 24 | Of the many interweaving strands within this extensive topic he concentrates primarily on the way artists have deployed scientific ideas and instruments — these connections constitute ‘ the science of art ’ of his title — — while he also encompasses a number of related themes . |
| 25 | He concentrates mainly on the flying , but as that , by necessity , requires a considerable amount of ground school the heavy bookwork is in there too . |
| 26 | He landed right on the line . |
| 27 | He landed right on the magician 's knee . |
| 28 | He landed heavily on the hall 's marble flagstones , then thrust his way through the press of people . ’ |
| 29 | As he landed heavily on the linoleum , the doctor called to him : ‘ Tell her I 'll be paying the ten shillings or she wo n't come . ’ |
| 30 | He screamed as he landed heavily on the vibrating flagstones . |