Example sentences of "he [vb past] [pron] [adv prt] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he laid her down on the horsehair sofa , and said Mrs Patten would not be in yet , and there was time ; and time there was , and what had happened last night was repeated , once and then again , until she , flushed and dishevelled , pulled down her dress , and said ‘ She is coming . |
| 2 | He laid them out on the desk , got a plastic bag out of the bottom drawer of the filing cabinet and swept all the bits and pieces into it . |
| 3 | Then he flung himself down on the settee . |
| 4 | He was speaking as he jerked himself out on the sandy foreshore . |
| 5 | I was in the kitchen when he played it back on the TV — I remember that day so well — and he called me into the living room to take a look . |
| 6 | ‘ At the house — he dropped me off on the way . |
| 7 | He plopped himself down on the nearest chair . |
| 8 | We stayed on board and we went up on to every deck and there was even a gentleman , he showed us up on the bridge on that er on that and , and of course there was the little shop and I bought I thought I must buy something on the Queen Elizabeth and I bought a pen . |
| 9 | Finally he hauled himself out on the allied side . |
| 10 | No , he was n't , because his head came up and he threw himself back on the ground behind him and he was rolling around in a heap of laughter . |
| 11 | He threw himself down on the bed with his head on my stomach , groaning , and between the groans saying that he would be a good husband in future , he honestly would , he adored me , he was very ashamed and only hoped I could forgive him . |
| 12 | Suddenly he threw himself down on the ground and rolled over and over in the dust . |
| 13 | He threw himself down on the huge old bed and stared at the sloping timber ceiling . |
| 14 | And he brought this up about the units I had and he he rang me up on the Friday night is n't it ? |
| 15 | He saw me off on the bus . |
| 16 | He eased himself up on the pillow and examined the breakfast tray . |
| 17 | He put her down on the bed , and , removing the crutch from her nerveless hand , tossed it into the corner , before sitting beside her . |
| 18 | He put it down on the tray then captured her hand , suddenly very much the professional consultant . |
| 19 | But three weeks later he put it back on the market . |
| 20 | Rosa Guy is also very descriptive and emotional in her writing , one of my favourite descriptions is on pages 53–54 which tells us how Mrs Aimsley has all her glasses set out on shelves and the higher the shelf , the more expensive the glass and of course not being used to drinking out of glasses , Imamu takes the most expensive type from which to drink milk and syrup and after washing and drying it , he put it back on the shelf , but as he takes his hand away , the glass tips over and falls , smashing on the sink . |
| 21 | I protested , but only weakly ; I was hysterical , and , I suppose , rather excited too : even when he had me down on the floor , jammed in an uncomfortable position with my head stuck between the pedestal of the wash basin and a slimy floor cloth someone had left lying against the wall , I could still do nothing but laugh . |
| 22 | He set her down on the landing and she stood on one foot , using the wall for support while he opened his living-room door . |
| 23 | He set it down on the bit of rug . |
| 24 | Instead , he set it down on the worktop . |
| 25 | He spread it out on the table and looked briefly at its incomprehensible , oriental symbols . |