Example sentences of "and he [vb past] [adv prt] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She released him and he fell back on the crumpled bedclothes to stare up at her at first blankly . |
| 2 | Adam paid the man and he went off on a bicycle , still wearing the knotted handkerchief on his head . |
| 3 | It was about ninety pounds and he went out on a limb for it , too . |
| 4 | We went swimming with Jonathan the other night and he got up on the top board and sort of and he was sort of like hanging on to the bar like this looking over |
| 5 | I was milking my goats in the field , and he got down on the ground and put his head near my foot . |
| 6 | He was shadowed everywhere in Sheffield , and he looked back on the experience as his most annoying transfer hid — particularly as it turned out to be one of his rare failures . |
| 7 | They shouted at him and he rode off on a bicycle , later to be stopped by the police who had been alerted to the incident . |
| 8 | The situation became funnier and funnier and he lay back on the bed shaken by deep gasps of laughter . |
| 9 | ‘ That 's it , then , ’ Joe said , and he lay back on the bed with the receiver to his ear and the handset held on his chest . |
| 10 | The fall seemed to bring Liam to his senses and he sat up on the road wondering where he was . |
| 11 | She asked him to test her on fielding positions , and he marked out on the sand the two sets of stumps and the ten fielding positions around them . |
| 12 | Further that we shall petition government tor an abolition and nullifying of the foresaid Act from the records of British parliament ; that the members of parliament for this county shall present this petition , or any annexed thereto , to the two Houses of Parliament , and to the Privy Council , during the prorogation of parliament — ‘ Menzies was seething and he broke in on the last words . |
| 13 | His wife and daughter were mugged and raped and he set out on a trail of revenge killings in cold blood , making himself bait for the muggers . |
| 14 | He accepted the devotion of a prostitute who anointed his feet with costly perfume , and he dined out on a number of occasions with tax collectors and sinners , who represented the social outcasts — the ‘ untouchables ’ of the day . |