Example sentences of "he [verb] [adv prt] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Furthermore , when he checked back on the correlation between his simple lix values and the criterion of pooled estimates of difficulty , he found that the figure was 0.92 , which was exactly the same as that obtained from the multiple regression . |
| 2 | When he 's dried out , he goes back on the road , an entertainer for whom the drug of applause and audience-love assuages his insecurity . |
| 3 | A horse will soon become used to the excitement of a show provided that he goes out on a regular basis from an early age . |
| 4 | When his mind 's on fisticuffs he sits in on the training sessions there . |
| 5 | They shouted at him and he rode off on a bicycle , later to be stopped by the police who had been alerted to the incident . |
| 6 | Branch manager Richard Fairhurst took a back seat for the day , as he rode along on the back of a tandem . |
| 7 | He rides off on the bicycle , my bicycle , which is too small for him . |
| 8 | We went swimming with Jonathan the other night and he got up on the top board and sort of and he was sort of like hanging on to the bar like this looking over |
| 9 | I was milking my goats in the field , and he got down on the ground and put his head near my foot . |
| 10 | Even when he was small , out hunting , and broke his arm , could n't wait until he got back on the horse , used his stock for a sling and rode home . ’ |
| 11 | He levelled out on a parallel course . |
| 12 | He looks back on a stimulating and happy relationship with his fellow Board members . |
| 13 | He accepted the devotion of a prostitute who anointed his feet with costly perfume , and he dined out on a number of occasions with tax collectors and sinners , who represented the social outcasts — the ‘ untouchables ’ of the day . |
| 14 | ‘ So you 've been up the barrow , ’ Jos said out of the blue , as he lined up on the final double . |
| 15 | But neither does he fall back on the traditional liberal solution of improving educational provision , since he has no illusions about the difficulties of inculcating the civic virtues necessary for proper development . |
| 16 | He drew up on the other side of the tall white gates and fished in his grey sack . |
| 17 | Again and again he bore down on the Annamese woman and as his movements quickened he kept his gaze fixed challengingly on Flavia Sherman 's face . |
| 18 | To steady himself he sank down on the side of the bed . |
| 19 | One man who could have a busy day on Sunday if he drops in on the above conference will be Michael Billington , the theatre critic of The Guardian . |
| 20 | It caught him full in the middle of his back , throwing him into the air before he crashed down on the cobbles . |
| 21 | With a meekness that made her feel mean , he knelt down on the floor and started to gather his cuttings together . |
| 22 | He knelt down on the sheet . |
| 23 | He messed about on the calculator . |
| 24 | He flailed around on the snow . |
| 25 | He came up on the other side shaking dirt from his fine white feathers . |
| 26 | Old Hewlett-Packard Co hands say that back in their day Lew Platt never looked to be a contender for the presidency : they are gratified to see him elevated since he came up on the Unix side and wonder how much should be read into that . |
| 27 | But anyway , he came up on the Monday er sorry , on the Friday when they was paying out , he said , Which chappie paid you ? |
| 28 | He came up on the train for a few days , very nervous , wearing his best suit . |
| 29 | Upon reaching retirement age Len found that he missed the job so much he came back on a part-time basis . |
| 30 | But my father went to America just after the war , and when he came back on the Queen Mary , he brought my mother some nylons , which were not obtainable in Britain at that time . |