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 .
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