Example sentences of "[adv] [subord] 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 | He took the Canal Turn as fluently as he had on the first circuit , then swept towards Valentine 's Brook . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Darkness fell and he put the report away while he lay on his bed and considered its contents . |
| 5 | I also wanted my son Mark , who 's in the army , to give me away before he went on a posting to Northern Ireland . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He breathed the name against her cheek , just as he had on the night of the party . |
| 8 | 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 ) . |
| 9 | He is ducking out of his responsibilities as Secretary of State for Education and Science , just as he did on health . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Nigel always worked best when he drew on his own life . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | He still owed her a fiver more than he had on him , she complained . |
| 17 | Dustin was offered $250,000 — fifteen times more than he earned on The Graduate . |
| 18 | You know he yelled at Auntie Lou yesterday because he slipped on that mat in the hall ? |
| 19 | Guess we kinda know now where he stands on the issue . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Corbett nodded understandingly while he concentrated on listing a sequence of events surrounding the Scottish King 's death . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Herod could not help but respect John , even as he picked on him . |
| 25 | He could not , even when he sat on two cushions , sit easily . |
| 26 | Now , all this time I held my temper , even when he turned on the tears which he could do , playing skilfully on his little-boy manner which elicited great sympathy from the women . |
| 27 | But that was a long time ago when he lived on his father 's stud farm in Ireland . |
| 28 | An old gent stopped in his tracks and raised his face to the sky , listening intently as he leaned on his walking stick . |
| 29 | And even though he insisted on the divinity of his inner voice , the essential perversity remains : in him , instinct , which should be a creative-affirmative force , becomes the critic , and consciousness , which should be critical-dissuasive becomes the creator . |
| 30 | Barnbrook Again was unbeaten last season and there was something radically amiss when he fell on his reappearance at Kempton for which there has never been a satisfactory explanation . |