Example sentences of "he [verb] [pron] on [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pushing the coverlet aside , he laid her on the bed , and sat down beside her , studying her white face . |
| 2 | Then he laid her on the bed and feasted his eyes on her , slender and seductive , totally naked except for the glowing ruby that flashed fire whenever she moved her hand . |
| 3 | Taking out a sheaf of documents , he laid them on the desk top . |
| 4 | He once caught a pigeon , but it was mostly sparrows so small that , when he laid them on the embers to cook , they were ready by the time the feathers had singed and were hardly worth even sharing , except with the twins who insisted . |
| 5 | ‘ Anyway , Charlie made it really simple for me , there were two guys at the back who could n't stand up and he laid it on a plate for me . |
| 6 | He laid it on the desk . |
| 7 | He laid it on the table halfway between him and Cley , his head on one side as he appeared to measure the distance precisely . |
| 8 | He , he put all down and he , he pinned it on the back on the back door |
| 9 | He pecked her on the cheek . |
| 10 | He passed her on the stairs . |
| 11 | Boldly coloured ties draped Levinsky 's neck ( he sold them on the street ) , his synapses now like two eggs over light , in permanent sizzle , as he tried to move into stride with a young Cassius Clay . |
| 12 | But he s he met me on the road one day and he said to me , Miss , it would pay you to give a decent price for it , he said to me . |
| 13 | He clapped me on the shoulder , proclaiming I was a great fellow , before sweeping away to join the dancers . |
| 14 | He clapped me on the shoulder . |
| 15 | In the telegram which Randolph sent her from Cape Town telling her what had happened , he asked her on no account to tell his father , the prime minister , but to arrange payments on the instalment plan of perhaps £10 a month to a list of the names he enclosed who had fleeced him at the cards tables . |
| 16 | While Janine and John cooked supper , he led us on a trek through the woods and around the two-mile meadow . |
| 17 | He got it on the market . |
| 18 | Mr Llambias ' services do not come cheap — they are a combination of a retainer ‘ sufficient to make them think really seriously ’ and a success fee that is a percentage of the fee income of the smaller firm ( sometimes 5% or 7.5% ) — but he prides himself on the longevity of the mergers he arranges . |
| 19 | When I 'm fighting my sister he kicks me on the wotsit . ’ |
| 20 | He slung them on the banister in a casual manner . |
| 21 | His hands were getting messy ; he wiped them on the creature 's cloak . |
| 22 | Joe had been at the pub that evening , and when he arrived home just before ten , he found her on the floor . |
| 23 | Presently , by what caprice of Providence he never knew , he found himself on the street that led to his lodgings , and stumbled towards it . |
| 24 | ‘ He found it on a table in my father 's chamber , ’ she announced . |
| 25 | He found it on the floor by the armchair , rinsed it , poured it halffull of milk . |
| 26 | he holds himself on the sofa |
| 27 | ‘ To the well-deserving Gaius Seius I leave and wish to be granted in addition that neither from him nor from his heirs should be claimed whatever he owes me on the basis of documents or accounts or has borrowed from me or I have guaranteed for him . ’ |
| 28 | He overtook us on the river and arrived ahead of me . |
| 29 | He was in a fix — he had bought two papers and merged them together , and I was n't around , I was in New York , and I did the logo for him in a hurry , but I did n't have time to design a newspaper , nor was it the kind of thing for which he could pay a big design fee , so he described it on the phone and then he faxed me some pages of the existing papers , and I said well what you have to do is look at the old London Times and do that . |
| 30 | He beat me on a number of occasions , often for some trivial offence . |