Example sentences of "[conj] he [vb past] [pron] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wesley made little progress with agricultural labourers because they were tied into the rigidities of the traditional social order , although he blamed it on the stolid stupidity of the peasantry , but in many mining and manufacturing villages Methodism throve . |
| 2 | She shook herself inwardly , said severely , Control yourself , Sally-Anne Tunstall ; remember what happened when you had such soft thoughts about a man before , and the sudden dreadful memory this evoked hit her so hard that she stopped dead in her tracks , gave a stifled wail , and went so white that Dr Neil , hearing her , and looking at her , saw that her pallor was so extreme that he thought her on the verge of fainting . |
| 3 | On a celebrated occasion in Wales a county court judge sitting in a civil case in Bridgend had not completed the case when the train was due to leave , so he continued it on the train and gave his final judgement in the station-master 's office at Llantrisant . |
| 4 | He was in a fix — he had bought two papers and merged them together , and I was n't around , I was in New York , and I did the logo for him in a hurry , but I did n't have time to design a newspaper , nor was it the kind of thing for which he could pay a big design fee , so he described it on the phone and then he faxed me some pages of the existing papers , and I said well what you have to do is look at the old London Times and do that . |
| 5 | I suppose we 've been rivals in the past , when I had my column on the Daily Mail and he had his on the Daily Express , but we 've been rivals in the friendliest of terms . |
| 6 | She leant over and he kissed her on the cheek . |
| 7 | Yeah , cos we was there in the August , they were n't , we moved in , in the July , there , and the girls were , Matthew was just four , cos just as we moved in our dad took Matthew to Hungary with him , it was like , it was like they were going on the following Wednesday , and he told me on the Friday , he came in on the Friday night , they planned , it was our dad , Crystal and Danielle , Crystal and Danielle , but she said even if I go out in the middle of . |
| 8 | I remember when he always used to read out during the service before the sermon the previous week 's collection and it used to consist of the collection last Sunday consisted of one pensioning note , twenty ha'penny half crown pieces , forty florins and he 'd go all through the coinage down to the last ha'penny but erm oh I believe he was , he was er very aristocratic , very aristocratic , but er Father , cos he used to come over our house quite a lot when my mother was on the parochial church council , and er he had a curate that was quite leftish and he got himself on the old Board of Guardians and of course he used to sort of er go into the Labour Club and was quite of er father , he said to old Father one night he said erm he 's a funny chap your curate he said well he , he 's the son of a farm labourer he says and I 'm the son of a country squire and that 's the difference . |
| 9 | But the door closed quietly and he left her on the dark , unfamiliar landing , crying , just like a baby . |
| 10 | ‘ The dear man knows that I collect swans , ’ she explained to Merrill and Richard , ‘ and he left it on the hall table with my name on a label around its neck . |
| 11 | Jehan pulled his tunic over his head , and he laid it on the empty stool to his right . |
| 12 | ‘ I still ca n't believe you , ’ he remarked , but he washed anyway and he dried himself on the piece of hessian and then spat on his hands and flattened his hair . |
| 13 | ‘ And he sacked him on the spot . |
| 14 | And he kept it on the fairway all day . |
| 15 | tell us about breathing , no you 're not getting my voice on that thing he says , I , I do n't like hearing me voice and everything , and he threw it on the settee . |
| 16 | He hit the ball left to right and he shaped it on the left-hand side on a sand dune , but it dropped in the dune on top of a hillock . |
| 17 | No I know Chris told me cos he saw him on the morning at the garage then he . |
| 18 | So anyhow , money 's that , he , cos he said summat on the Monday night . |
| 19 | Cromwell 's foreign policy has been called out-of-date , because he based it on the bellicose anti-Catholic and anti-Spanish feeling of the reign of Elizabeth . |
| 20 | He had to put archers and javelin-throwers of his own up all the climbable trees before he had them on the run , and lost a dozen men to no purpose . |
| 21 | Michael Ramsey took Eden 's letter into the chapel but knew what his answer would be even before he put it on the altar . |
| 22 | He had noticed the same man several times during the day , culminating about 5.40pm when he noticed him on the corner of Cross Street and Friar Street . |
| 23 | And Lloyd found , in a milieu still heavily influenced by the Communist Party , that he had little difficulty in outselling the Morning Star when he took it on the streets . |
| 24 | ‘ Agent Somerville , ’ he boomed when he heard her on the line , ‘ get after him . ’ |
| 25 | He once caught a pigeon , but it was mostly sparrows so small that , when he laid them on the embers to cook , they were ready by the time the feathers had singed and were hardly worth even sharing , except with the twins who insisted . |
| 26 | John Stork — when in his mid-30s — became aware of headhunting when he found himself on the receiving end of a headhunter 's call for the first time ; in due course he became the successful candidate , but did not take the job , staying on as a member of the international Board of Masius Wynne-Williams advertising agency , where he had earlier been head of research . |
| 27 | But Rutherford hooked well , Crowe provided several of his best cover-drives , the groundstaff captured a dog before it could interfere with play , and Tufnell 's effort to prevent a boundary by slide-tackling the ball had the same result as when he tried it on the same ground a year ago : four . |
| 28 | When he placed her on the bed and sat beside her she was left in no doubt of his love . |
| 29 | Quigley had made sure he had stopped hitting me as soon as he heard her on the stairs . |
| 30 | ‘ I could tell he 'd been drinking as soon as he joined me on the jig . |