Example sentences of "and he [verb] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now Will brought down an old van er which was scrap it was quite a good body I mean and he painted on it , We 're still open , er something like , Despite Transport and General Workers ' Union picketing we are fully open , and he plonked this van with no wheels on it just the body right th in the entrance of th on his own ground naturally er right in front of the pickets which was like you know tantalizing . |
| 2 | There were a few places where he 'd disturbed dust , and he blew on them hard to blur the marks and redistribute the deposit . |
| 3 | His eyes were wild , and he blew on a hunting horn . |
| 4 | His two front teeth shattered , and he choked on a sudden spurt of blood . |
| 5 | and he wrote on the label for a pill |
| 6 | He was dressed Yek style in a loose tunic and breeches , and he had on a surcoat which was stiff with gold embroidery . |
| 7 | On this ground the proceedings of the licensing court were either reduced , or the pursuer 's averments were held relevant , in the following circumstances : when two of the members of the court had been employed by the applicant as part-time barmen for a number of years , without remuneration apart from money gifts at holiday periods : McDonald v. Fin lay ( supra ) ; when three of the members of the court were shareholders , and one was a director , of the company owning the property for which the certificate was sought , and when that company was closely allied with another company , the officials and directors of both being the same persons , on whose behalf the certificate was applied for : Blaik v. Anderson ( 1899 ) 7 S.L.T. 299 ; when a member of the court had recently been a shareholder of the company on whose behalf the certificate was applied for , and he had on previous occasions himself been the applicant on the company 's behalf , he being an avowed and pledged advocate of the company : Ower v. Crichton ( 1902 ) 10 S.L.T. 271 ; when members of a court had , in their capacity as members of a local authority , and with a view to street improvement , taken an active part in negotiating the purchase of licensed premises from brewers , who agreed to pay a sum of money to the local authority if a new licence were obtained for other premises , such as the subject of the application : R. v. Sunderland JJ. [ 1901 ] 2 K.B . |
| 8 | The gruel was served up and a long grace was said over a short the gruel disappeared , the boys looked at each other and went over , while his next neighbours nudged him , tired as he was he was desperately hungry and he rest on the table and the master with his hands he said |
| 9 | His favourite food is Jamaican , especially fish dishes , and he insists on cooking it himself . |
| 10 | Algy Forrester , something of a fire-eater , stormed on , reaching the hotel , now the centre of German resistance , where he was about to throw a grenade when a shot from the hotel knocked him down and he fell on his own grenade , which exploded to kill him . |
| 11 | Too fast for his shorter legs and he fell on his knees . |
| 12 | Jonathon is a trained musician filling in as a cleaner between jobs and he fell on his feet at the Oxford Playhouse . |
| 13 | Just then a wave of nausea engulfed him , and he swayed on his feet like a drunk man . |
| 14 | but anyhow it , well they , they were there and he bought the pub did n't he and they were moving on the Saturday and he came on the Saturday morning and he cried take the furniture to pieces , some of the furniture , the wardrobes and there was a dining room table that they could n't get into the pub , could I dismantle them and re-assemble them again and that was the first time I 'd ever met him were n't I ? |
| 15 | And he went on more explicitly to speak of that period ‘ some ten or even twenty years ago . ’ |
| 16 | A Mr Shawcross , chairman of the examination board of the NUT , offered a similar contribution : he spoke of the " revolutionary change " in the teaching of English in elementary schools over the previous ten years , and he went on ( in the words of the bulletin report ) to give " his experience of Manchester children under the old system " : |
| 17 | And he went on his way with the other two . |
| 18 | And he went on his way with the youngest brother until they came to a long glade in the forest . |
| 19 | And he went on his way , scratching his head . |
| 20 | ‘ A year ago father went to Brittany ; he 'd been saving up for years and he went on a nine-day excursion . |
| 21 | He finally took the advice of doctors a month later , and he went on a two-week holiday to Jamaica . |
| 22 | right , Archie , he 's erm , on his own , own he 's er , think his wife died years ago , he saved and saved and he went on a big cruise , do you know what I mean ? |
| 23 | So the guy who 'd been fired took one of the cars from the agency and he got on the wrong road ; they 'd forgotten about curfew , probably they were too drunk and they did n't stop when a South Vietnamese barrage challenged them . |
| 24 | turn the crane round one way then the other and he got on the same lever but today they got , cos they got big lovely cranes where they stand there with four levers , four controls they 've got and it goes up and down . |
| 25 | And he got up and he got on another bed ! |
| 26 | In the end he is n't they who , he sued the insurance company and this , the er solicitor he had were n't getting on very good and they suggested this bloke and he got onto it and he got on it , fifteen thousand quid out of sixteen thousand quids . |
| 27 | I sit scratching my head wondering what 's happened , and he puffs on one of those stinking cigars , telling me it was , obvious this would happen right back when I moved that pawn . |
| 28 | This incident finally convinced Charles that he should abandon his efforts to work with parliament , and he embarked on a period of personal rule , which lasted until 1640 . |
| 29 | He built up the textile , sugar and cement industries , he introduced electrification , and he embarked on a vastly ambitious railway across the country , linking the Persian Gulf to the Caspian . |
| 30 | And he looked on a list he had and he put seven something . |