Example sentences of "he [verb] on [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He does , he likes to get in the bedroom and , and he fiddles on with the erm |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | As he goes on to the next , I glance at his fingers . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | 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 ? |
| 7 | He got on with the job . |
| 8 | He got on to the internal phone and asked for petty cash , not specifying any amount . |
| 9 | He knew the man would be magnificent when he got on to the stage that night . |
| 10 | Crossing the head of the ravine , he headed on up the meadow keeping within the treeline for protection and using the flashlight . |
| 11 | Like Billy were he lives , he lives on by the courts , you know by the Law Centre ? |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | He moved on to the ‘ enduring significance and value of the Anglo-American relationship ’ . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Eighteen months later he moved on into the marketing and sales department , where he was responsible for liaising between Harwell and the EEC . |
| 18 | He moved on up the street , or would have moved on if he had been able to . |
| 19 | With true teen anger he latches on to the witty cynicism of the two Lenny 's , Cohen and Bruce , but fires them up with youthful vitriol . |
| 20 | He changed on to the Jubilee Line at Charing Cross and at Bond Street four men got in . |
| 21 | He sank on to the floor , hugging his knees . |
| 22 | Whereupon he wandered on to the stage carrying a 12-foot ladder he repeatedly threatened to climb . |
| 23 | As soon as I got to the wire I spotted a gap and ran through it , only to see Private Prescott overtake me as he charged on towards the enemy lines . |
| 24 | No.4 Troop followed Captain Algy Forrester as he charged on down the high street . |
| 25 | They were the gate by which he entered on to the path which led ultimately to his acceptance as the authority on the distribution of arctic-alpine flora in Britain . |
| 26 | As he strolled on towards the pub he was surprised at the number of people that were about . |
| 27 | We did have an argument that afternoon ; he came on to the set clearly hungover — he had been drinking heavily the day before , disrupting things , disturbing the atmosphere . |
| 28 | He came on for the injured Mumby and headed in a perfect Measham cross to score his first goal for the club . |
| 29 | The 29-year-old Scot , a £225,000 summer capture from Millwall , has struggled to find his form on Wearside but all that changed when he came on for the injured Don Goodman after just 12 minutes of Saturday 's game against Barnsley . |
| 30 | ‘ The DJ took up the same line when he came on for the broadcast quiz interview , ’ she went on . |