Example sentences of "he [vb past] [verb] [adv prt] on the " in BNC.
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1 | He wanted to roar out James 's name , his own name , to scream for help , he tried to pull up on the sill but his fingers scrabbled uselessly and he dropped back . |
2 | Well I wondered if he 'd wa he 'd gone out on the Nottingham cos I wondered what would happen to the mascot was he shot the mascot , after the the game ? |
3 | I rushed him to hospital and the doctor asked how it was done and I said he 'd fallen over on the step . |
4 | Van Gelder had n't made any mistakes about her , Talbot thought , except that he 'd missed out on the wide green eyes and a rather bewitching smile . |
5 | Mind , he 'd crashed in on the situation pretty damn quickly , stepping in and being nice to her almost before she had dried her eyes , trying to get her on the rebound . |
6 | John McLeish was in his office , Saturday or no Saturday , telling himself he needed to catch up on the paperwork . |
7 | One of them was less than an inch away from his eye as he lay buckled up on the ground beneath the tree . |
8 | As he lay face down on the grass of the hollow , Melody , who had also consumed a considerable amount of drink , sat down heavily beside him and spoke to herself . |
9 | This left Briton Derek Warwick , in a Footwork , in seventh place after he had spun off on the final lap in the rain . |
10 | But here was a youth so far ahead of his time that if he had turned up on the streets of London sixty or seventy years later , he would still have been recognised as a sure sign of an alarmingly unrivalled degeneration among the young . |
11 | He was around somewhere unless he had ridden out on the common . |
12 | Then he remembered the time that he had walked in on the Politburo meeting and arrested Beria . |
13 | The voice belonged to George , he had drawn up on the other side of the road , and as I walked towards him his voice was getting impatient . |
14 | Springfield himself was standing beside the open door of his car , which he had drawn up on the verge opposite the gates , angled so its headlights were bathing them in a pool of bright luminescence . |
15 | When she 'd closed the case he had sunk back on the pillow , a thin smile on his face , his lips tinged with yellow . |
16 | He had settled down on the settee , watching her every move as she 'd put the kettle on and taken salad and cold meat from the fridge . |
17 | The bus he boarded headed off on the 2 hour trip to Nagasaki , where he was to visit a Dutch theme park which commemorates early Dutch trading links with feudal Japan . |