Example sentences of "he [verb] [adv] on a " in BNC.
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| 1 | he went mad and he was trying to cover it up and that cos I mean over the club , and he goes there on a Saturday afternoon , he gets some stick over there . |
| 2 | We are not to know that new methods of correlation will not he developed ( as spores , hystrichospheres , etc. , have been developed in recent years ) to correlate the least promising.looking formations , Ultimately perhaps we shall have a little black box into which we only have to pop our rock specimen for its age to he read automatically on a dial . |
| 3 | Trusting to things mechanical for the second time today , he sank below on a hydraulic platform designed for wheelchairs . |
| 4 | Iida 's aircraft was holed by Finn and other gunners and he crashed deliberately on a road near the officer 's quarters , one of the undercarriage wheels bounced through a house and the engine of the aircraft landed a ¼ mile away . |
| 5 | My friend went on down the winding road for about two miles , finishing at the quayside , where he rapped smartly on a door . |
| 6 | Thomas went out , came back a moment later with an object draped in blue velvet which he positioned carefully on a low table . |
| 7 | That was her first spontaneous thought , and then , but what on earth was he doing here on a Saturday morning ? |
| 8 | Maxim had an hour and a half to wait for a train to Osnabrück , and half changed his mind about hiring a car , but that meant lots of signatures , and might be difficult to hand back if he flew home on a trooping flight from RAF Gütersloh . |
| 9 | THE two blue birds snuggled up on a branch , the smaller one lovingly stroking her mate 's neck while he chewed contentedly on a piece of coconut . |
| 10 | And why does he hide away on an island ? ’ |
| 11 | Once inside , he settles uneasily on an overstuffed armchair and peers politely , if a little wearily , through gold-rimmed granny glasses . |
| 12 | He coached abroad on a number of occasions , always refusing any kind of payment , even for his expenses , and his three visits to Harvard between 1896 and 1898 were rewarded by an honorary degree . |
| 13 | Lienhardt , writing of the Dinka of the southern Sudan , provides support for Romaine 's view but also suggests a further elaboration of it , impinging as he does so on a number of the issues raised here . |
| 14 | One patient had identified milk as causing symptoms but his lactose tolerance test was positive and he remains well on a lactose free diet . |
| 15 | He sat carefully on a stool by the bed . |
| 16 | His garments were of the forest and he seemed a part of it as he sat there on a tree-stump , small , compact , a broken shape of browns , fawns , russets and greens . |
| 17 | Miha Pogacnik was born in Slovenia but now resides in Germany and the USA where he travelled initially on a Fulbright scholarship . |
| 18 | ‘ So he runs slowly on a ball . |