Example sentences of "he [vb past] [pers pn] on the [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 | He found it on the far side , punched the red button and watched the big metal doors start to move . |
| 4 | GUIL : He caught us on the wrong foot once or twice , perhaps , but I thought we gained some ground . |
| 5 | Cromwell 's foreign policy has been called out-of-date , because he based it on the bellicose anti-Catholic and anti-Spanish feeling of the reign of Elizabeth . |
| 6 | He joined her on the cushioned seat . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He crushed them on the open field of battle . |
| 10 | He left her on the hard shoulder , near Epping , Essex , saying she would only have to wait 15 minutes . |