Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [pers pn] on [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then they peeled back the bedcovers and laid him on a crisp sheet , covering him from the waist down with another sheet . |
| 2 | Then the door of the Earl 's hall slowly yielded , and his father carried him in and laid him on the same bales . |
| 3 | He took her protesting hand , and laid it on a thick roll of tablecloths between their bodies . |
| 4 | Nathan closed the folder and laid it on the starched tablecloth . |
| 5 | The flight was successfully undertaken to the area of Kerkenah Island , where two 22X Squadron Sunderlands met the Hurricanes and led them on the last leg to the island . |
| 6 | The man took off his spectacles and wiped them on a snowy white handkerchief . |
| 7 | Next she looked for her bag , and found it on a long low table . |
| 8 | Then , when he sought to take the oath , the House itself refused and excluded him on the dubious ground that , being an atheist , he could not swear . |
| 9 | He considered it more dangerous than any horse he had ever ridden , and drove it on a tight rein , seldom exceeding 35 m.p.h . |
| 10 | The wind we had waited for so long quickly rose to gale force , and drove us on a desperate roller-coaster ride for five days and nights . |
| 11 | He worked each through a transition training programme with the assigned aircraft and schooled them on the forthcoming filming . |
| 12 | Putting down his carrot , Hazel ran across , scrambled up the bank and joined him on the bare ground under the low , close boughs . |
| 13 | In June 1901 , the Board received a letter in which he expressed his gratitude for the provision of a room for himself , and congratulated them on the efficient way in which the alterations had been carried out . |
| 14 | Then I met up with Alan and , and he read though it and challenged me on a few things and we changed one or two bits , but I 've got my sort of target set out . |
| 15 | The medal was handed to her on a velvet cushion and she bent down and hung it on a little hook with which we had each been provided on arrival . |
| 16 | After the monitor had gathered up the papers and placed them on the small , square , wooden table that acted as the sister 's desk , the class sat quiet , waiting anxiously for the verdict , a tick or a large cross , the while automatically mumbling Hail Marys . |
| 17 | He picked her legs up one by one , and placed them on the two benches . |
| 18 | She took some bread from the pantry cupboard and placed it on the wooden table . |
| 19 | He removed his straw hat and placed it on the empty chair beside him . |
| 20 | Roland drew his breath in minor shock : Maud said , ‘ Oh , the dolls ’ — and Sir George brought his light back from a blank mirror entwined with gilded roses and focused it on the three rigid figures , semi-recumbent under a dusty counterpane , in a substantial if miniature four-poster bed . |
| 21 | When Richard came a couple of steps nearer — it would never have occurred to him to go back until the matter was satisfactorily settled — Harry , looking faintly surprised , as though he could n't believe that anything could be quite so simple , raised the adjustable spanner and hit him on the left side of the head , just below the ear . |
| 22 | With some care he selected a Zchloty leaden quarter-iotum and balanced it on a purple thumbnail . |
| 23 | If you do n't have a male flower with pollen dropping , take the most developed flower , open it carefully to expose the anthers , use tweezers carefully to take out some filaments and lay them on a clean dry plate or saucer . |
| 24 | Using the striped ribbon technique , make a small gift tag and lay it on the small red parcel with a white twisted ribbon to secure . |
| 25 | He and took me on a short sight-seeing trip to the Qutab Minar . |
| 26 | Police said : ‘ He lied and took us on a wild goose chase . |
| 27 | I 've called him Ferdinand ( not Caliban ) three times , and complimented him on a horrid new tie . |
| 28 | For a time he offered his services to Louis VII of France and accompanied him on the second crusade as papal legate in charge of the Anglo-Norman contingent . |
| 29 | What Hornung had done was to take his brother-in-law 's famous detective , Sherlock Holmes , and put him on the wrong side of the law ; a friendly dedication acknowledged the debt . |
| 30 | Then I got a hand bowl full of fresh sawdust from a sack in the little warehouse and sprinkled it on the clean boards . |