Example sentences of "[conj] he [vb past] [verb] on the " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Well , I waited up until three o'clock in the morning and he crawled in with footmarks all over his nice new suit where he 'd fallen on the floor and let everybody trample over him , blood pouring down his shirt from a head wound , a balloon tied round his neck and a paper hat on . |
| 2 | His business career remains equally obscure , but it is likely that he began working on the rougher side of the tavern trade . |
| 3 | And I did n't tell him that he came banging on the bloody door and all that . |
| 4 | He says that he managed to stay on the crest of the wave . |
| 5 | He does , indeed , make an attempt to meet this difficulty , by alleging , in the replication to the fourth plea , that he married relying on the testator 's promise ; but he shrinks from alleging , that though he had promised to marry before the testator 's promise to him , nevertheless , he would have broken his engagement , and would not have married without the testator 's promise . |
| 6 | By this time , Lewis had shown Morse the yellow A4 sheet ; and Morse had seemed so delighted with it that he 'd turned on the car 's internal light in transit . |
| 7 | Carson pulled out his pad and tried to read the shaky notes that he 'd made on the Underground . |
| 8 | In the bay-windowed room Forester locked the door behind him and closed all the curtains before turning to the rod case that he 'd laid on the bed . |
| 9 | He bent down and picked up a carrier that he 'd lain on the floor . |
| 10 | He was n't about to tell the Yank that he 'd also been duped , that he 'd sat on the information for nearly twenty-four hours . |
| 11 | I think she undoubtedly added to the intrigue erm and difficulties of her court , erm one example , she was always getting people that she approved of , getting them plum jobs , and one example was one of the governors of Oxford , the most unpopular , one Sir Arthur Aston , who was so unpopular that he got attacked on the street , and then had to have a body guard paid for the city council , and then was curvetting on his horse in front of some ladies , and fell off and broke his leg so badly that he had to have it amputated , so from then on he had a wooden leg , erm that meant he had to stop being governor , and later on in the war , a countryman was coming into Oxford , and asked the sentinel ‘ who was governor still ’ , and by that time a friend of prince Rupert 's Sir William Leg was governor , and the answer was ‘ one Leg ’ , and the countryman 's reply was ‘ pox on him , is he governor still ? ’ . |
| 12 | The little boy was wearing the same neat grey flannels that he had worn on the first day Robert had seen him , and , when the sun struck his face , he smiled up at it as if in gratitude . |
| 13 | The walk meant he would be able to claim in future that he had promenaded on the Promenade des Anglais . |
| 14 | He gave a great sigh and if she had not known him better she might have thought , as he slumped forward , that he had expired on the spot . |
| 15 | The next year Meehan wrote to Beltrami that he had heard on the prison grapevine that Waddell 's accomplice at Ayr was a well-known Glasgow villain named William ( ‘ Tank ’ ) McGuinness , a vicious little man with a long record that included violence . |
| 16 | After discovering three further tombs , Andronikos concluded that he had lighted on the burial-place of the Macedon royal family . |
| 17 | Charles could have chosen any excuse for the phone call and it was pure chance that he had lighted on the meaningless ‘ numberplate racket ’ I ‘ So that 's what made you drive down in the Datsun , and move the plan forward , and lose a quarter of a million pounds ? ’ |
| 18 | Gabriel said nothing , but he felt so ill that he had to rest on the gate for a moment . |
| 19 | Michel de Montaigne was so convinced of the importance of contradictoriness that he had emblazoned on the domed ceiling of his library the motto : ‘ To Every Reason an Equal Reason can be opposed ’ . |
| 20 | ‘ Some of the language that he used bordered on the unforgivable . |
| 21 | It is evident that the deputy head soon realised that he had set himself an enormous task , despite the fact that he decided to focus on the work of three ‘ target ’ pupils . |
| 22 | Ernest and he had met on the golf links and both shared a love of collecting antiques . |
| 23 | That was probably the most , the in , the most interesting form friendship in there , its fucking good , I went for a job in there , but I could n't I was an apprentice , as I say that , that 's what got me going really was the fact that he had to go down and actually do a design of the and he had to work on the |
| 24 | Black Wry rose in him against this creature , this monstrous being who was turning Ireland into black barrenness ; above the mask his eyes glinted and he wanted to spring on the Robemaker and tear his throat from his body . |
| 25 | It was as if he had put on the quality of maleness like a flamboyant cloak . |
| 26 | As late as the 1760s an influential theorist could still argue that an ambassador who , on his own initiative , encouraged sedition within the state to which he was accredited , could be punished by it even with death , while if he had acted on the orders of his master he could be held as a hostage until the latter had given satisfaction . |
| 27 | But he avoided sitting on the sofa next to her although she 'd left space . |
| 28 | We can also point to grammatical parallelisms which , although not devoid of content , merely seem to have an elaborative function , providing further examples of a concept already expressed : " The sweetest rose hath his prickle " already conveys , by proverbial extension , the meaning " even the best things are alloyed with bad " , and to that extent , the repetition of the pattern in " the finest velvet his brack , the fairest flour his bran " , is redundant.Lyly might not , one imagines , have added his last piece of pattern , the similitude of sanctity , unless he had hit on the alliteration of " holiest head " and " wicked way " . |
| 29 | Therefore , the IT in Mr Sen 's case could have allowed his claim in because he had acted on the advice of a member of IT staff . |
| 30 | A large Nubian slave — the Sultan had removed his tongue so he could not speak — was manhandling this fellow because he wanted to get on the roof . |