Example sentences of "he [vb past] [pers pn] on [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Jehan pulled his tunic over his head , and he laid it on the empty stool to his right .
2 Tugging her gently , he seated her on the low stone wall .
3 But Rutherford hooked well , Crowe provided several of his best cover-drives , the groundstaff captured a dog before it could interfere with play , and Tufnell 's effort to prevent a boundary by slide-tackling the ball had the same result as when he tried it on the same ground a year ago : four .
4 He found it on the far side , punched the red button and watched the big metal doors start to move .
5 He found it on the last day of 1869 under nearly twenty feet of sand .
6 GUIL : He caught us on the wrong foot once or twice , perhaps , but I thought we gained some ground .
7 Cromwell 's foreign policy has been called out-of-date , because he based it on the bellicose anti-Catholic and anti-Spanish feeling of the reign of Elizabeth .
8 He joined them on a non-contract basis .
9 He joined her on the cushioned seat .
10 He hit the ball left to right and he shaped it on the left-hand side on a sand dune , but it dropped in the dune on top of a hillock .
11 ‘ Oh , in cash , he paid me on the same day , insisted on doing so .
12 Wesley made little progress with agricultural labourers because they were tied into the rigidities of the traditional social order , although he blamed it on the stolid stupidity of the peasantry , but in many mining and manufacturing villages Methodism throve .
13 He crushed them on the open field of battle .
14 He placed her on a wooden table in an open space .
15 Louise was on a normal double decker bus with over thirty of her schoolfriends when the driver appeared to be angered by their continually ringing the bell ; so much so that he took them on a six mile detour .
16 As he took her on a guided tour of the eight-bedroomed mansion , the Prince asked her to organize the interior decoration .
17 We met the most morbid man in the world when we were there , he took us on a guided tour of all these famous murder sights — including the Dakota building where John Lennon got shot . ’
18 We met the most morbid man in the world when we were there , he took us on a guided tour of all these famous murder sights — including the Dakota building where John Lennon got shot . ’
19 He left her on the hard shoulder , near Epping , Essex , saying she would only have to wait 15 minutes .
20 ‘ And he set us on a new track as far as putting human rights violations in a political context was concerned .
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