Example sentences of "[adv] he [vb past] [verb] on " in BNC.
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1 | In doing so he had to rely on the police for manpower . |
2 | So he had to start on another one . |
3 | So he had to operate on him , on the floor . |
4 | So he lay hunched on the floor of the saloon and breathed as best he could through the thick hood . |
5 | and er , he 's been on the dole admittedly he did go on the dole If you 're on the dole for part of the year , your own salary is do they add your dole money to the salary , charge you tax on that , |
6 | Dreamily he tried to concentrate on it , to classify it , but it defied his effort . |
7 | His eyes looked so unhappy that she could hardly bear it , but before she could say anything more he had plunged on : ‘ It must have been obvious and I 'm sorry for that too . |
8 | Increasingly he seemed fixated on the danger that it would escalate into a world war . |
9 | We started the gradual process of bringing him back into work , hoping that he had been through all his disasters in one go : first he cut himself and had to be stitched , and then he got kicked on the hock . |
10 | Then he lay trembling on his stone bed and listened to the clock striking the hours . |
11 | Indeed he did broadcast on the BBC before the war with a man called Harry Hopeful who ran a very popular show , rather on the same lines as Wilfrid Pickles and his Have a Go programme . |
12 | Part of his freight business was probably reputable enough , and maybe he needed to trade on that to get a job . " |
13 | Again McNab had been summoned and again he had insisted on clearing away the mustard-plasters and compresses . |