Example sentences of "[conj] he [verb] [verb] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | A woolly-jumpered Colin Wilson was photographed for the press in his Notting Hill bedsit and under the tree in Hampstead Heath where he had worked on his best-seller The Outsider , a paean to the existential rebel Wilson wished to be . |
| 2 | President Mohammed Hosni Mubarak cut short an official five-day visit to China ( where he had arrived on that day ) to return to Egypt . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It leaves the notion of understanding untouched ; Hume seems to agree that we understand propositions about unobserved objects , although he does argue on independent grounds that they are mostly false . |
| 5 | These two major blows basically saw the end of his racing career , although he continued to compete on BMWs and Nortons again , before retiring in September 1961 following a crash in Sweden . |
| 6 | He told US financial markets that have been on a roller-coaster in anticipation of his victory that although he had campaigned on a message of economic growth he understood the importance of stability . |
| 7 | But she recognised him already from his photograph , although he had put on so much weight . |
| 8 | His business career remains equally obscure , but it is likely that he began working on the rougher side of the tavern trade . |
| 9 | And I did n't tell him that he came banging on the bloody door and all that . |
| 10 | He says that he managed to stay on the crest of the wave . |
| 11 | He had often , in their earlier correspondence , spoken of a test or ideal that he wished to impose on himself as a rein on his passionate temperament and his over-eager response to physical beauty and joy . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ I ca n't say I 'd given everything to make my husband what he was , or that he 'd cheated on me . |
| 14 | ‘ He 's a lad with bags of confidence and was quick to let me know that he 'd scored on his debut and I had n't . |
| 15 | And he 'd drawn and coloured the cross that he 'd seen on his mother 's bed . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Carson pulled out his pad and tried to read the shaky notes that he 'd made on the Underground . |
| 18 | Opening heavy lids , she found that he was staring at her with burning eyes , yet she was aware that he 'd imposed on himself an icy control . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | He bent down and picked up a carrier that he 'd lain on the floor . |
| 21 | The icebox was packed with beer and he 'd prepared a lobster salad that he 'd left on ice . |
| 22 | The can of soup that he 'd left on top of the flame was starting to bubble when he got back . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | It might even be something that Creed already understood , that he 'd divined on their first meeting in the Mortlake office . |
| 25 | 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 ? ’ . |
| 26 | As he waited for the executioner , he was dressed in the blue suit that he had worn on his last public appearance . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | ‘ Think yourselves lucky , ’ Kadan observed as he dumped the bedding and equipment that he had scavenged on their behalf on the grass and began to sort it into piles . |
| 29 | It said that he had reneged on his monetarist beliefs ; that arrogance has been his undoing ; and that his policy lay in ruins . |
| 30 | But Ball denied that he had trampled on Mills 's feet since arriving at Stoke City less than three weeks ago . |