Example sentences of "he [verb] on [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She wanted him to stop yet at the same time wanted him to go on in the hope that the lovely sensations would begin again . |
| 2 | It is absurd , every time we introduce another element of our policy , for him to leap on to the populist pitch and then , as he no doubt will in a few minutes ' time , find some detailed reasons for being opposed to it . |
| 3 | The nuptial pads on a male frog 's feet enable him to grip on to the females tightly when mating . |
| 4 | ‘ Now I can see him going on to the next one , the way he is playing . |
| 5 | After a short while she saw him emerge on to the quayside , a tall , lean man with the kind of rangy , loose-limbed walk which drew admiring glances from any female within range . |
| 6 | Maud 's hand tightened on his sleeve as she urged him to walk on towards the Serpentine . |
| 7 | As she thrashed his bare arse with scorching strokes , she watched him ejaculate on to the floor . |
| 8 | Michael let him drop on to the filthy floor . |
| 9 | ‘ He should have knocked the guy cold and not let him go on to the fourth round . |
| 10 | He returned for his father 's funeral , the first time he 'd been back to Zimbala in seventeen years , and Jamel was able to persuade him to stay on as the new editor of the country 's leading daily newspaper , La Voix . |
| 11 | It was clearly impossible for him to stay on in the studio . |
| 12 | President Chiluba has our best wishes to help him get on with the job ; we shall do our best to assist him , because the election was a fine example of the principles that we endorsed at the recent Heads of Government meeting in Harare . |
| 13 | When he was naked , she helped him climb on to the desk . |
| 14 | He does , he likes to get in the bedroom and , and he fiddles on with the erm |
| 15 | Etchings were sent to a printer to make some impressions and someone surreptitiously made copies which he passed on to the defendant who intended to display them in an exhibition which the public could attend on payment of an admission charge . |
| 16 | As he goes on to the next , I glance at his fingers . |
| 17 | I 've been reading Richard Hoggart 's The Uses of Literacy on this journey ; he goes on about the working class not being able to think " abstractly , generally , metaphysically or politically . |
| 18 | Beckett remarks in Our Exagmination Round his Factification for Incamination of Work in progress , that Joyce 's work is ‘ not about something : it is that something itself ( Beckett 1929 and 1972 : 14 ) , and he goes on in the central part of his oeuvre , the trilogy Molloy , Malone Dies , The Unnamable ( 1950 — 2 ) , to create a kind of autonomy of his own — — as the Unnamable remarks , ‘ it all boils down to a question of words … all words , there 's nothing else ’ ( 1959 and 1979 : 308 ) . |
| 19 | Where we might have expected him to grant her the respect of verse , he goes on in the same business-like prose : ‘ How now , Kate ? |
| 20 | He got on with the job . |
| 21 | He got on to the internal phone and asked for petty cash , not specifying any amount . |
| 22 | He knew the man would be magnificent when he got on to the stage that night . |
| 23 | Crossing the head of the ravine , he headed on up the meadow keeping within the treeline for protection and using the flashlight . |
| 24 | Like Billy were he lives , he lives on by the courts , you know by the Law Centre ? |
| 25 | Many legends are told of Barbarossa ; it is said that he is not dead , that no true Emperor has ruled since his reign , and that he lives on until the Day of Judgement . |
| 26 | He moved on to the ‘ enduring significance and value of the Anglo-American relationship ’ . |
| 27 | He moved on to the dome , which you must imagine like the magic covers you have seen in your drawing-room under which dwell all sorts of brilliant little birds , as natural as life on their branches , or flights of mysterious moths and butterflies . |
| 28 | From Ireland he moved on to the Outer Hebrides , which he reached on 30 August , and then to his most northerly landfall , Foula off the Shetlands , on 3 September . |
| 29 | After taking us through his life and times , he moved on to the matter of his death which he hoped would be quick and peaceful . |
| 30 | Eighteen months later he moved on into the marketing and sales department , where he was responsible for liaising between Harwell and the EEC . |