Example sentences of "[noun sg] and [vb past] [pers pn] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She pulled out her warrant card and slapped it on the desk then marched out of the office , slamming the door behind her . |
| 2 | He led her back into the bedroom and sat her on the chair while he rummaged in the chest . |
| 3 | He went to the lavatory , lifted a large tin bath off its wall hook , took it into the bedroom and placed it on the floor . |
| 4 | Jessica turned in her seat and touched her on the arm . |
| 5 | Then I got a hand bowl full of fresh sawdust from a sack in the little warehouse and sprinkled it on the clean boards . |
| 6 | She barged past police , threw her arms around Diana 's neck and kissed her on the cheek . |
| 7 | She threw her arms round his neck and kissed him on the lips , enveloping him in discreetly expensive perfume . |
| 8 | Gilly swiped the little wet paper across her mouth and dropped it on the floor . |
| 9 | She half opened her tight , thin mouth and held it on the verge of speaking . |
| 10 | Pat poured the doctor out a cup of tea and placed it on the bedside table . |
| 11 | Celia arrived with a tray of tea and placed it on the table . |
| 12 | They then bundled him out of the car and left him on the road . |
| 13 | I picked up a marrowbone and hit him on the head . |
| 14 | The boom is the pole running across the bottom of the sail , designed to swing across the boat and hit you on the head when you try to turn . |
| 15 | The Kitchens are in New York for the first time , because last August , A&M America heard their just-completed second album and bought it on the spot . |
| 16 | Bunny noticed Stella 's distress and patted her on the shoulder . |
| 17 | He frowned , pulled the napkin from his lap and laid it on the table as he stood up , shrugging apologetically to his mother , seeming to indicate that it was the kind of thing that had happened before , from time to time . |
| 18 | Jane slid on to his lap and kissed him on the mouth . |
| 19 | He crossed to the guard and tapped him on the arm . |
| 20 | On Sunday morning Bishop Harris of Middlesbrough celebrated Mass and delivered the homily in which he welcomed us into his diocese and congratulated us on the work we were doing . |
| 21 | The TV reporter swung his eyes back from the window and trained them on the superintendent in a long , calculating stare . |
| 22 | I cut out the caption and stuck it on the cover of my French notebook . |
| 23 | ‘ Well , then — ’ Alice walked across the kitchen to the open fireplace and , bending towards the oven at the side of it , she opened the door and took out a casserole dish and placed it on the table before she went on , ‘ If that 's how you 're feeling I think it 's about time you got yourself married . ’ |
| 24 | He joked and playacted , then put his arm round one 's waist and kissed her on the cheek . |
| 25 | He took the flare from its bracket and laid it on the top of the trap-door . |
| 26 | He had hustled her out of the kitchen into the boudoir and kissed her on the lips , slipping his arm round her waist . |
| 27 | Alan snatched up an osier basket and hung it on the cockerel 's rusty head to hide it . |
| 28 | The teacher then took a length of string , cut it to the height of the child and laid it on the ground on top of the shadow of Leanne . |
| 29 | Nathan closed the folder and laid it on the starched tablecloth . |
| 30 | After a minute , she wrote out the check and placed it on the table . |