Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] he [verb] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Faldo also made birdies at both the 15th and 16th and putted better than he had on either of the first two days . |
| 2 | This should be sufficient to put a purchaser on notice so that he insists on paying the purchase monies to two trustees or a trust corporation so as to obtain a good receipt ( Law of Property Act 1925 , s27 ) . |
| 3 | Give the horse plenty to think about so that he concentrates on his work rather than other exciting stimuli . |
| 4 | He took the Canal Turn as fluently as he had on the first circuit , then swept towards Valentine 's Brook . |
| 5 | He leafs through the file of correspondence in his In-tray , the two vertical lines in his brow above the nose drawing closer together as he concentrates on names , figures , dates . |
| 6 | Darkness fell and he put the report away while he lay on his bed and considered its contents . |
| 7 | I also wanted my son Mark , who 's in the army , to give me away before he went on a posting to Northern Ireland . ’ |
| 8 | They had originally offered £100,000 for Fox , who asked relegated Rovers for a move just before he left on the Lions tour Down Under in May . |
| 9 | He breathed the name against her cheek , just as he had on the night of the party . |
| 10 | This work made an effective bridge to the equally spare and fastidious Four Capriccios Opus 9 by Gyorgy Kurtag ( whose music Ligeti has generously welcomed into his Festival , just as he insisted on having the composer share the stage at the end ) . |
| 11 | He is ducking out of his responsibilities as Secretary of State for Education and Science , just as he did on health . |
| 12 | O'Leary is in his first season at Saracens , and impressed England coach Dick Best when he scored on his debut for the London Divisional side against the Midlands earlier this month . |
| 13 | Nigel always worked best when he drew on his own life . |
| 14 | He looked exactly as he had on the day of their last meeting , the day of his departure to the United States : calm yet concerned , sensitive yet restrained , the perfect model of the thinking politician . |
| 15 | The male oriental fruit moth employs greater subterfuge by producing a scent similar to the female 's as soon as he arrives on the scene . |
| 16 | Almost as soon as he arrived on campus , he disappeared into a mass of wiring , flashing lights , bleeping tones and tens of metres of multicoloured printouts on endless rolls of chartpaper . |
| 17 | The world of the Zoo seemed to move without any noise at all and around the Cages all was still but for the visitor Creggan had attacked , who swayed back and forth where he sat on the ground , others gathered around him . |
| 18 | He still owed her a fiver more than he had on him , she complained . |
| 19 | Dustin was offered $250,000 — fifteen times more than he earned on The Graduate . |
| 20 | You know he yelled at Auntie Lou yesterday because he slipped on that mat in the hall ? |
| 21 | Guess we kinda know now where he stands on the issue . |
| 22 | Tallboy was n't sure how to judge his superior 's tone but he needed a fillip to his esteem right now so he looked on the bright side . |
| 23 | It was now three thirty a.m. and he stopped on the swing bridge over the Berkeley to Gloucester canal and tried to hide the fish as much as possible . |
| 24 | Le Monde of June 9-10 estimated that in the 50 major , policy-determining laws of the 270 passed during Rocard 's term as Prime Minister , Rocard had relied on the support of the right and centre nearly three times as often as he relied on the PCF . |
| 25 | It 's here that he worked on the painstaking part by part design of the bike on a computer . |
| 26 | will ultimately apply utilitarian standard , but he does n't make much of it here and he relies on a much more intuitive idea of what manage things well and he assumes that different branches of government will have different standards of success and that we will be able to tell pretty much whether they 're doing well or badly . |
| 27 | Corbett nodded understandingly while he concentrated on listing a sequence of events surrounding the Scottish King 's death . |
| 28 | If Jason Peake can regularly play as well as he did on his debut on loan from Filbert Street on Saturday , Pool need to sign him quickly . |
| 29 | Herod could not help but respect John , even as he picked on him . |
| 30 | He could not , even when he sat on two cushions , sit easily . |