Example sentences of "he [vb past] [vb pp] [pron] on [art] " in BNC.
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1 | Prison does that to some men , though , he 'd heard it on a documentary . |
2 | He said he 'd heard it on the radio this mornin' . |
3 | His daughter Diane Perry said she was rung by her husband from work after he 'd heard it on the radio . |
4 | He 'd met her on the beach walking with a dog , a wire-haired terrier called Dolly which had come sniffing up to him . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | But at least he did n't spot that until he 'd got me on the committee . ’ |
7 | 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 ? |
8 | He had kissed her on the nose , and they had strolled around their small domain , debating what else they should do to the garden . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | He had written something on a scrap of paper and folded it over at the bottom . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | He had dumped me on the surface just as he had found me . |
17 | When , once , he had thought himself on the brink of an alliance for which he yearned , he was suddenly and shatteringly rejected . |
18 | That quite compensated for the insult he had offered her on the stairs . |
19 | 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 . |
20 | 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 . |
21 | He realised that it had been a while now since he had put himself on the lookout for Medjays shadowing him . |
22 | He had put it on the draining board . |
23 | He said he had found them on a tip but was convicted of theft by York magistrates . |
24 | And of course that was why Hardy had taken against him , why he had left him on the sidelines any time he picked a team for some action , why he had now given him a job that he knew anyone else in the unit would have balked at . |
25 | He had left it on the passenger seat , where it lay , legs in the air , headless rump deep in the upholstery . |