Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [pron] on the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Father Devlin clapped him on the shoulder with a large heavy hand . |
| 2 | Devlin clapped him on the shoulder . |
| 3 | Patrick flung himself on the mattress which Sarah was to use , and jumped up and down on his knees , full of boyish energy . |
| 4 | Trent seated himself on the taffrail . |
| 5 | Bernie Scholtz passed her on the iron stairs as she was hurrying out . |
| 6 | Henley prides itself on the accessibility of its Faculty whose services extend well beyond the formal classroom environment . |
| 7 | Stewart joins us on the line now good morning Mr . |
| 8 | Trent found them on the floor and watched the old man thread the sprung arms over his ears . |
| 9 | She took a playful swipe at his face , but Harvey caught it on the flat of his hand , then she struck at him with the palm of the other hand and they did a pat-a-cake routine . |
| 10 | David Beaton clapped him on the shoulder . |
| 11 | Maisie pecked him on the cheek . |
| 12 | She did n't care about anything ; she just wanted Meredith to see her on the back of the Prince 's white charger . |
| 13 | David clapped him on the shoulder and simply said : |
| 14 | So Bobby found himself on the carpet — on the silk dressing gown — and on Rachel ! |
| 15 | Richard threw himself on the floor screaming ! |
| 16 | Returning to England she was able to put her principles of movement teaching into practice with Molly accompanying her on the piano . |
| 17 | The use of special juries of merchants by Lord Mansfield to guide him on the law is well known — not that he always followed their suggestions . |
| 18 | ‘ And with that David kissed me on the cheek . |
| 19 | David kissed her on the mouth . |
| 20 | Laura passed Rex the gun and Rex bopped him on the head with it . |
| 21 | The squire who carried the news to the king at Berkhamsted reached him on the evening of June 24th . |
| 22 | Dr Neil saw her on the bed , face swollen and unrecognisable , all her bright lustre gone . |
| 23 | He jumped as Heg tapped him on the shoulder . |
| 24 | There was ZTT 's Frankie Goes To Hollywood , and Propaganda ; Paul Morley promoted them on the assumption that pop was run by flabby-faced cowards who did n't even know how to do their own job — in other words , it took an aesthete to know and score a hit . |
| 25 | Determined to write herself out of her poverty , Buchi Emecheta launched herself on the book world with an autobiographical account of life in London for a young Nigerian single parent . |
| 26 | He looked so downcast that even Angalo patted him on the shoulder . |
| 27 | Corbett patted her on the hand . |
| 28 | Thus Jeffrey found himself on the Island of Sombrero in the Leeward group . |
| 29 | Very few films are about rape , although it crops up all over the place — from the narrative device launching an endless cycle of Death Wish movies , to general ’ scene-setting ’ in war movies and crime thrillers , or used with sublime insensitivity to illuminate ( male ) character : Robert De Niro raping his childhood sweetheart in Once Upon A Time In America , Bob Hoskins forcing himself on the maid in The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne . |
| 30 | Gerard threw himself on the floor . |