Example sentences of "he [vb past] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Smuts 's own notes for the great speech he made on the occasion of the dinner in the Royal Gallery ( see above ) of which over 1 , 000 , 000 copies were sold in the English language alone . |
| 2 | He pounced on the Scottish selectors for not picking him for the 4 × 100 metres relay team for Edinburgh and , so it said in one of the tabloids , he was now ready to meet Linford Christie . |
| 3 | He pounced on the word . |
| 4 | ‘ Jim knew it , because he lived on the edge . |
| 5 | ‘ Jim knew it because he lived on the edge ’ |
| 6 | He lived on the Somerset Levels , and he was called Girard Fossarius , Gerard of the Drain . |
| 7 | And if he lived on the other side of the world she would think nothing of flying to meet him , she said . |
| 8 | From 1865 to 1871 he lived on the estates he had inherited in Scotland , and then spent his last years at Cambridge . |
| 9 | David Nicholson says he lived on the end of the racecourse for 22 years and his father lived there longer than that … for him Cheltenham is the best three days racing anywhere in the world and he loves it |
| 10 | He lived on the green did n't he , ? |
| 11 | Singling out The Forest and the Fire , which he laid on the pillow ready , he left the rest in a pile on the floor . |
| 12 | Then he checked on the car , took the long walk back to his serviced apartment , and spent a restless night staring at the stain patterns on his ceiling . |
| 13 | He plunged on the bomber and raked it from tail to nose ; then let his dive carry him under it and pulled up in time to plant a burst in its belly before climbing into a half-roll which brought the next plane almost within range . |
| 14 | When Edward I , Langshanks , waged his wars against Wales and Scotland , his armies were paid for by loans from Luccan bankers and when he reneged on the loans , the bankers went bust and Florence became the international financier of the day . |
| 15 | And still , after Crime and Punishment , the idea of a confession novel or story tugs at the edge of Dostoevsky 's vision , and continues to do so for the rest of his life in the form of The Life of a Great Sinner which he planned on the scale of War and Peace , but which never got written though it fed previous material into his novels of the seventies , and especially Karamazov at the turn of the next decade . |
| 16 | The monument was raised by the power of the state as a piece of political theatre extravagant enough to be seen from miles and years away , as it was by my father when he passed on the Bapaume Road in the summer of 1944 . |
| 17 | ‘ It 's an unexpected and welcome bonus , ’ declared Tom , happily , when he passed on the news . |
| 18 | He passed on the thanks , and the remarks about the possibility of keeping in touch in the event of war . |
| 19 | ‘ He hopped on the first plane back to Germany . ’ |
| 20 | This view was supported by the medical staff whom he consulted on the matter . |
| 21 | The boy who kicks his football close to windows can be reprimanded more easily if he was one of those to draw up the rule against doing so and if he agreed on the appropriate punishment beforehand . |
| 22 | We had recently begun to shelter a young man who had deserted from the Italian army in the south and had somehow managed , with the help of various Italians whom he met on the way , to reach Fontanellato . |
| 23 | He supported himself by painting the portraits of the distinguished people he met on the way , and in Japan he went off alone to live among the aboriginal Ainu . |
| 24 | In 1903 he married Rosecleer Alice Amelia Blanche from Totnes , Devon , whom he met on the voyage to Australia . |
| 25 | He rode on the Sambre 's northern bank , drawn towards the town by the sound of musketry which had been loud an hour before , but which now had faded into silence . |
| 26 | He announced on the eve of the Spanish Grand Prix that he would contemplate retirement ‘ sooner rather than later ’ if the ban was not lifted . |
| 27 | ‘ It is not true … it is fiction , ’ he announced on the steps of his flat in London 's South Kensington . |
| 28 | ‘ We 'll call at the supermarket en route , ’ he announced on the way back to the car . |
| 29 | ‘ Any sightings of Jessamyn ? ’ he asked on the open channel . |
| 30 | " Are you " he choked on the dry words , began again . |