Example sentences of "he [adv] [vb past] [pers pn] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he finally got her on the phone , she only asked him how he was then said she had to rush , and put the receiver down before he had time to tell her . |
| 2 | He had seen beyond the excitement of being approached for his first book ; he already visualised it on the bookshelves ! |
| 3 | Her hand throbbed beneath his where he still trapped it on the table . |
| 4 | Scott was so pleased with the style he had evolved at Battersea , a treatment that humanised industrial forms without denying their function , that he also used it on the Guinness Factory at Park Royal , west London . |
| 5 | At Cabinets on 9 , 10 and 11 December he cautiously defended it on the ground that Hoare must have known more than they did , and defended also the continuation of Hoare 's holiday , although this by then had become more of a matter of nursing than of recreation , for he had fallen on the ice and broken his nose in two places . |
| 6 | Charlie showed no obvious signs of friendship as he immediately caught me on the chin . |
| 7 | He virtually threw me on the delivery bed and the midwife yanked down my trousers — and there was the baby , with his head and a hand out , gazing at us . |
| 8 | He then kissed her on the cheek and said goodbye . |
| 9 | He voluntarily relinquished it on the eve of seventy , the only man of this century to have been Prime Minister three times . |
| 10 | She clung to him as he charged up the stairs and into her bedroom where he unceremoniously dumped her on the bed . |
| 11 | During the eight years I worked for Fred Workman he never lectured me on the practice or ethics of journalism , and in assigning me to a story he never told me what to do . |