Example sentences of "he [vb past] [adv prt] on [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | He got up on one elbow . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Vincente seemed a pleasant enough bloke when he turned up on that first morning . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | He ducked down on one knee and said to himself , ‘ Sasaki , gambare ! |
| 6 | He walks round the streets he walked round on that first morning . |
| 7 | For the next eleven years he shipped out on various vessels as boy steward , able seaman or boatswain-second mate and sometimes as cook . |
| 8 | The afternoons he spent out on long walks or in South London attending classes on meditation . |
| 9 | That 's one way to put it , anyway and he said that and he said he lost out on six hundred pounds ? |
| 10 | And er he he wen he took along on this jaunt right out to , into the , he showed us the erm major oak , I can remember it very well . |
| 11 | Mountbatten missed Charles enormously when he went off on long trips and felt lonely and deprived without his increasingly regular visits . |
| 12 | He went down on one knee beside the older woman . |
| 13 | And I said they will require cover for their breaks he fell down on that one , he does n't think those two days . |
| 14 | As usual , he fell back on plain honesty . |
| 15 | Either way , in later life he looked back on that experience as evidence that dancing could be part of everyday life in a way that it is not for most Europeans . |
| 16 | Jock set up an old aircraft wing with a tin of petrol inside to simulate a fuel tank , which he propped up on some oil drums . |
| 17 | But he gave up on that to tell us this — things ai n't a patch on what they used to be . |
| 18 | He leaned up on one elbow to gaze down at her and instead of Ruth feeling a rush of panic she felt incredibly calm . |
| 19 | Scott 's experience was typical : when he wrote in on 1st December querying various aspects of the schedules , he was brusquely told a week later that no variations were permitted , and the designs must be prepared in accordance with the printed instructions . |
| 20 | He sat down on one of the bare wooden steps . |
| 21 | Exhausted , he sat down on one of the steps leading from the bathroom and leaned his brow against the cool wall . |
| 22 | He began to feel rather uneasy as he sat down on one of the hard , rexine-covered arm-chairs . |
| 23 | He sat down on one of the chairs and stared up at her with an accusing , plaintive face . |
| 24 | Yet when he set off on 20 September 1519 , with a royal mandate to search for a passage through to the Mar del Sur , and thus to determine for certain that the Spice Islands were within the Spanish domains , he had not the foggiest notion how far he might have to travel . |
| 25 | He set off on 15 November on the first leg of a two month expedition thumbing his way across France , Algeria and Niger . |
| 26 | He flitted about on this machine ( which obsessed him ) wearing a helmet and goggles so that Gabriel called him The Invisible Man . |
| 27 | For some reason he picked up on that word and let her cool statement go by for the moment . |