Example sentences of "[noun] he [vb past] [adv prt] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | With a brief laugh he lay back on the bed , closing his eyes . |
| 2 | Galliéni , who was senior to Joffre , had been offered the supreme command , a post he turned down on the grounds that all his experience had been as a colonial soldier and administrator . |
| 3 | In the dying firelight he looked down on the sleeping face of Joe the Fish . |
| 4 | With his hands still covered in paint he lay down on the chilly sheets and waited for sleep to take his confusions away . |
| 5 | It was only partly the men he had out on the streets and in the bazaars , the special agents like Georgiades . |
| 6 | ‘ White spent much of his life balanced on the boundary between crankiness and brilliance , ’ continues Girouard ; ‘ in the end he fell off on the wrong side , and a large proportion of his last years were wasted in trying to prove that Shakespeare was Bacon . |
| 7 | After dinner he leaned back on the sofa , she sat upright across the room in a matching easy chair . |