Example sentences of "he [vb past] [verb] [pron] on [art] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | He agreed to marry her on the understanding that he could bow out if and when something better turned up . |
| 2 | So he tried to show them on the piano . |
| 3 | He tried to flog it on the bus |
| 4 | Prison does that to some men , though , he 'd heard it on a documentary . |
| 5 | He said he 'd heard it on the radio this mornin' . |
| 6 | His daughter Diane Perry said she was rung by her husband from work after he 'd heard it on the radio . |
| 7 | He 'd met her on the beach walking with a dog , a wire-haired terrier called Dolly which had come sniffing up to him . |
| 8 | He clambered up and intercepted her at the kitchen door , enfolding her and drawing her in to his body so that his warmth flowed through to her , just as he had that day when he 'd found her on the beach , lost and afraid ; like him , a victim of the past . |
| 9 | But at least he did n't spot that until he 'd got me on the committee . ’ |
| 10 | Typical of Geoff 's talent was the opening goal he scored to set us on the way to a Wembley victory over Everton in the Zenith Data Systems Cup Final in April 1991 , cleaving his way though The Toffees ' defence to head home from a corner and , perhaps partly because of Palace 's and Geoff 's success at Wembley , he was awarded his first full International cap when England travelled to Turkey for the European Nations Championship tie on May Day 1991 . |
| 11 | Much to his surprise , he found Burn was already staying there but ‘ laid up with a severe illness ’ , so he arranged to meet him on the following Monday . |
| 12 | He needed to support himself on the bannister . |
| 13 | When he moved in the house had five bedrooms , so he decided to convert one on the first floor into an en suite bathroom . |
| 14 | He offered to sell it on the Keele campus . |
| 15 | But he liked gripped me on the arm and then his hand would appear from nowhere during the concert , he like kind of rubbed my arm and are you alright ? |
| 16 | He had kissed her on the nose , and they had strolled around their small domain , debating what else they should do to the garden . |
| 17 | And what he was saying seemed to be in direct conflict to the hurtful reasons for their marriage he had given her on the drawbridge yesterday . |
| 18 | He had written something on a scrap of paper and folded it over at the bottom . |
| 19 | He told his teacher he had lost it on the way to school , and Mr Watson promptly rapped his knuckles with a ruler for his carelessness . |
| 20 | Imogen had lived in Hampstead , and had been just such an attractive sixth-former when he had met her on a trip to the States . |
| 21 | a very able man in business matters , but unfortunately lame ; he had to support himself on a crutch , in addition to which the dark glasses he wore to hide some defect in his eyes , did not improve his appearance ; altogether it always struck me that the prominence of position he seemed to claim was undesirable . |
| 22 | For almost the whole of their walk their objective had been in sight : the green copper cupola of the soaring campanile of Arthur Blomfield 's extraordinary Romanesque basilica , built in 1870 on the bank of this sluggish urban waterway with as much confidence as if he had erected it on the Venetian Grand Canal . |
| 23 | And he had to say something on the bloody tape did n't he ? |
| 24 | Francisco worked in Admin , but occasionally he doubled as a barman , and he did n't have to explain that he had cut himself on a broken glass . |
| 25 | His father was very proud of his house because he had built it on a bit of land at Low Fields and did quite a lot of the construction work himself , with the help of his bachelor brother , Tommy . |
| 26 | He had dumped me on the surface just as he had found me . |
| 27 | When , once , he had thought himself on the brink of an alliance for which he yearned , he was suddenly and shatteringly rejected . |
| 28 | That quite compensated for the insult he had offered her on the stairs . |
| 29 | The men were emissaries of Paul Reichmann and were there to question Klein about the story he had told me on a number of occasions . |
| 30 | Only the sound of the engine , and my eyes shifting from the mist and the road to take covert glances at his face ; I knew no more about him now than when I first met him , except what he had told me on the flight down from Mexico . |