Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [adv] on [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The man ducked , weaving to his left so that Trent 's fist caught him high on the right cheek . |
| 2 | Botham had the first six wickets before Marshall and Baptiste held him up for while , Marshall being lucky not to be on the wrong end of a legendary catch when Don Topley , a groundstaff boy who went on to play for Essex , brilliantly caught him one-handed on the square leg boundary , only to put one foot over the rope . |
| 3 | As I understood , he was asleep for much of the time , and indeed , I found him so on the few occasions I had a spare moment to ascend to that little attic room . |
| 4 | Korda let him out on a three-picture deal with Fox , continued to pay him $15,000 a year but would take a large slice of what Fox paid him : from the three pictures Richard would earn about £80,000 . |
| 5 | He used it more on the unknown Hoffman than on the others . |
| 6 | I tried it out on a modest 386SX and it still felt fast on a big test database . |
| 7 | Er , well Ray let us in on a little oak table erm and forget to ring up to find out whether |
| 8 | One told me how on a cold winter 's day of driving rain , her only refuge was the car parked outside the house . |
| 9 | Iain filled me in on the essential details while I was devouring that gargantuan breakfast . |
| 10 | Jack filled him in on the scanty information they had already obtained . |
| 11 | He reached towards her with his strong hands and pressed them down on the fine-boned structure of her shoulders , massaging with rhythmic , kneading movements . |
| 12 | He took the tins of food through to the lean-to and piled them up on the draining board . |
| 13 | He has , to switch metaphors , grabbed by the throat the Tories ' controversial team of young election campaign advisers , shaken them vigorously , and hung them up on the nearest meat hook . |
| 14 | Mary Rose took off her mink and handed it to a large redheaded girl , who looked at it and stroked the silky fur before she hung it up on the back door among the muddy anoraks . |
| 15 | She dosed the door softly behind her , took off her coat and folded it neatly on the small divan bed and snuggled down in the flowery corner armchair . |
| 16 | I think they showed that one Christmas or something and were watching something else and we turned over and the instant we turned over , this girl wobbled across the screen , and my mum straight away switched it back on the other side me and me brothers right in the other room watching there . |
| 17 | With both hands she pulled her right foot out from under her left thigh and placed it flat on the green carpet as a dancer will consciously reorganize his body . |
| 18 | ‘ He took us right back to basics , started us again on the simplest things . |
| 19 | I was relieved to find my protege still motionless underneath his breeze block , so I picked him up , showed him the food and then laid him back on a fresh bed made from the local evening paper . |
| 20 | ‘ Doctor Henry Jekyll sent me here on an important matter . |
| 21 | Urgent or not , Sladen was experienced enough to give them thirty seconds of plati-tudes while they kicked their briefcases under the table , tugged at their waistcoats — both MI6 men wore them even on a hot June day — and shuffled their papers , although few of them were prepared to put much paperwork on view . |
| 22 | And we flew from er that was from London , we flew from the Croydon Airport in London , and er we , you went down to er an , a small office near Victoria Station in these days and er you w we , you put your luggage in there and then they took you out on a special bus to Croydon . |
| 23 | Could it be that someone took him up on the extravagant wagers he offered constantly during the election and that he 's been forced to three ball his monkey suit to meet his gambling debts ? and then there was the letter in Saturday 's Darlington and Stockton Times from stop-at-home Nick ThorneWallis , Labour chairman of Darlington council 's transport committee . |
| 24 | Haverford got up early , sat in the garden jotting away until , as often as not , Don Marco arrived in a small rattling car and took him off on an unknown errand . |
| 25 | She was hit and caught fire while going in to attack at low level and her pilot Don MacIntyre brought her down on the frozen surface of nearby Lake Hocklingen . |
| 26 | Rostov scanned the platform above for Alexei and saw him finally on the topmost section of the catwalk . |
| 27 | Hang it up in a wardrobe , lay it flat on a spare bed or roll it very loosely . |
| 28 | Teenagers Ronnie O'Sullivan and Andy Hicks took it out on the Welsh in the last 16 yesterday . |
| 29 | The man forgot one issue , the European Monetary Union , it was Mr Major that took us into the Economic Monetary Union at the wrong way , he took us in on a political decision on the last day of a Labour Party Conference in Blackpool and he 's forgotten that . |
| 30 | Guido drained his whisky glass and laid it down on a nearby table . |