Example sentences of "[verb] [subord] he [verb] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She could hear her three- year-old son Rufus laughing as he played on the swings nearby . |
| 2 | ‘ Wotcher ! ’ he shouted as he scraped on the strings . |
| 3 | In June 1965 the plaintiff , a child of six , was severely injured when he stepped on the line , having passed through the broken fence . |
| 4 | Going home next day , he noticed as he waited on the platform for the tube to Baker Street , that the track sings as the train comes into West Hampstead , long before you can see it , and the silver lines shiver as it approaches . |
| 5 | Vic sighs , hits the Off button on the clock , switches on his bedside lamp ( its dimmer control turned low for Marjorie 's sake ) , gets out of bed and paddles through the deep pile of the bedroom carpet to the en suite bathroom , making sure the connecting door is closed before he turns on the light inside . |
| 6 | Ranulf threw him a penny , then cursed as he slipped on the decaying corpse of a rat . |
| 7 | This may sound complicated but the argument is very similar to that which Victor Turner employs when he comments on the liminality , or " betwixt and between " status , of persons who are engaged in any ritual process . " |
| 8 | Between the noise of the bloody guns and clouds of bloody mosquitoes buzzing around my head , all I 've had for my two hours is more mosquito lumps on my face , and I 'm more tired than ever. , Taff and I chatted while he sat on the floor of the trench smoking his cigarette . |
| 9 | Prentice 's foot and leg shuddered as he rolled on the grass . |
| 10 | In the 73rd minute Philliskirk netted as he got on the end of a cross from Boro substitute Bobby Barnes . |
| 11 | Feeling as if she had been dismissed , Lindsey watched as he sat on the bed and reached for his stethoscope . |
| 12 | She watched and listened as he sat on the bed , held the frightened woman 's hand and made her believe it too . |
| 13 | His heart thumped as he stood on the Yugoslav border and stared through the night at the nearby fields in Hungary . |
| 14 | He said as he stepped on the ‘ plane : ‘ I would love to come back for another season at Portadown — but no-one has said anything to me . |
| 15 | ‘ This is reward for many years of hard work , for all the perseverance and the lonely nights , ’ he said as he sat on the terrace of the clubhouse revelling in the atmosphere and attention of a successful first round . |
| 16 | There was a gulph [ sic ] between slavery and freedom which could neither be filled up nor closed over and across which the slave must leap ere he alighted on the other side and found himself a free man . |
| 17 | We have to get this clear once and for all and it is the question of what Neil Armstrong said when he landed on the Moon . |
| 18 | Not Diddy Paint , it 's a and he goes ready calcu and he 's showing off he goes right , I 'll show you what it does when he put on the calculator and it |
| 19 | She stopped singing when he knocked on the door , but he had to wait and knock a second time before she invited him in . |
| 20 | The child , possessed by wonder and nameless hauntings , tried to join together the heavings and creakings and groans and gasps and little cries he had heard as he lay on the floor , his mother 's disturbed concentration now , his father 's stillness as if felled , and the sticky warmth in which he lay between them , something more than the sweat that was there before , a substance he divined as elemental , mysterious , newly decanted , that touched his flesh and his senses with profound , unattainable meaning . |