Example sentences of "he [verb] [adv prt] the [noun] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | He laid out the newspaper on the carpet and stripped off the bowl 's clingfilm covering . |
| 2 | The room was hot when he entered , and he turned down the thermostat on the wall . |
| 3 | As he switched on the torchlight on the dashboard and began to study the Glory 's manual , Jack again thought of Tina 's angry reaction to the idea that the Ram and Shepherd names might be linked . |
| 4 | So he pulled up the brakes on the reindeer |
| 5 | He pulled down the people on both sides of him . |
| 6 | Did n't he mess up the header/flick on that allowed Sheron to score the first goal ? |
| 7 | See he smashed up the house on Christmas day . |
| 8 | He put down the tray on the floor , and brought out her cap from the pocket in his coat into which he had stuffed it , saying , however , ‘ Let go your hair or I do n't return it . ’ |
| 9 | He tossed her shorts away , then sat up and looked at her with desire-darkened eyes as he tugged down the zip on his own shorts and flung them away . |
| 10 | The jury heard he carried out the attack on a post graduate Russian student as she cycled home across Oxford 's Port Meadow last July . |
| 11 | He carried out the raid on the night of 24 December and would have taken at least three days to return to Jalo . |
| 12 | Carefully he wrote out the letters on his pad . |
| 13 | JIM 'S PUB : He snapped up the lease on the Old Bells to keep a job |
| 14 | He took some time because he jacked up the chair on books to make good the missing leg , rather than have an unsuspecting colleague collapse . |
| 15 | He picked up the ball on the edge of his penalty area , pushed it to Ricky McAvoy who laid on the chance for McCallan to drill his shot past Wesley Lamont . |
| 16 | In the sixty fourth minute , Pedro Herbert restored the home side 's lead when he picked up the ball on the break and side footed it past keeper Cummings , to make it two one to Harefield . |
| 17 | MARTIN LYNCH realised the wildest dream of every jump jockey when , at the 11th hour , he picked up the mount on strongly-fancied contender Cool Ground in today 's Martell Grand National at Aintree . |