Example sentences of "he [adv] [verb] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | The answer is an all-too-simple one : by the time he courageously signed on as a volunteer infantryman , John was in the terminal stages of consumption . |
| 2 | His name was Dave Brown and he eventually went on to establish one of the first clubs in the country to be licensed as an openly gay establishment . |
| 3 | She added : ‘ When he eventually got on to the train he left the bird on a seat next to his cabin . |
| 4 | Mr Farraday did not seem to understand this statement , for he merely went on : ‘ I mean it , Stevens . |
| 5 | He merely held on to it , while Bruce pulled him , and with a gurgle of laughter the boy found the apple was in his hand . |
| 6 | Caroline stared at him , waiting for him to smile , to give some hint that he 'd made a joke she 'd simply not understood , but he only went on looking at her , his face as cool and composed as if he 'd done nothing more than offer to top up her sherry . |
| 7 | He only stayed on for me . |
| 8 | Some grain of self-preserving sense must have penetrated Rickie 's skull , for he suddenly dropped on to his heels and offered me a placatory grin . |
| 9 | She was about to turn to him and demand to be taken back when he suddenly swung on to a track she had not seen from the distance . |
| 10 | Needing pain-killing injections in his injured big toe before the game , he brilliantly latched on to Alan Smith 's neat flick to slot home his fourth Cup final goal but required more treatment at half-time after suffering an ankle injury . |
| 11 | He just carried on . |
| 12 | ‘ I tried to grab his leg but he just carried on , ’ he said . |
| 13 | But today he just carried on eating his pot roast with his head down , paying no attention at all to his argumentative brood . |
| 14 | The black and there was all cement drawn and everything and we had a big table in there and he just carried on he did n't make shoes and he died when he was er , well he had a bad stroke and , and he was in the other room for seven years . |
| 15 | When they ignore the whole idea of pandering to a European market , they can be quite good , as in Tarkovsky 's Italian-funded productions , where he just carried on making the same film that had obsessed him for the past 30 years , only a bit more slowly . |
| 16 | computers and that and er he left it and he just carried on talking about this that and the other , and he says right I 'm going and he went and he left the game , he 'd brought it down for the kids , he did n't say , you know |
| 17 | He just came on in the same purposeful manner and Maggie backed away , a little alarmed and suddenly remembering why she was here . |
| 18 | Three and he just came on and played the piano . |
| 19 | Well , I 'm sorry , he just came on so strong . |
| 20 | He just went on saying in a shocked way , as if he had lost his mind , ‘ You 're twenty-five , thirty years old ? |
| 21 | ’ And he just went on and on and on . |
| 22 | One of them reached over the moat to wrench hunks out of the hedge : I jumped backwards when the great muddy wrinkled trunk came swinging over , but Vern did n't , he just went on standing there , staring . |
| 23 | I begged him not to , but he just went on , heading straight for them . |
| 24 | No , there was no quarrel : he just went on to someone else , like he always did . |
| 25 | He just went on staring at her until she began to feel uncomfortable and agitated . |
| 26 | He just went on with his task , his eyes on the horse , his strong brown hand working methodically . |
| 27 | Thank you , child ! ’ and he just went on looking at me . |
| 28 | He was , was he just moved on from time to time , or were they voluntary moves ? |
| 29 | Apart from asking me if it might be ‘ right lip ’ or ‘ left edge ’ he just got on with it himself . |
| 30 | He just got on with expansion . ’ |