Example sentences of "[vb past] he on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The stolen gym shoe , hurled by Snecky , caught him on the side of the face . |
| 2 | A shower of jeers greeted him from the queue and , as he passed the last boy , who was just out of sight of Mr Gillis , a foot shot out , caught him on the ankle and down he went , sprawling on the wooden floor . |
| 3 | The fist came up and caught him on the side of the head and Jack went down , seeing little sparkling stars . |
| 4 | Whitlock sprung to his feet and caught him on the side of the head with a stinging haymaker then followed up with two brutal body punches that dropped him to his knees . |
| 5 | One week we decided to follow him to find out where he was sloping off to We found him on the roof ledge peering down at people in a car below . |
| 6 | I looked around for Kalchu and eventually found him on the far side of the fire talking to a group of men , some of whom I recognized as being from Chaura and from Chhuma . |
| 7 | The next morning found him on the practice fields as soon as the sun was up , battering his post as though it were a mortal enemy . |
| 8 | We found him on the floor getting cold and with none of the other monkeys taking much notice . |
| 9 | And they found him on the floor ? |
| 10 | Ten years ago , when Davey Boy was a mere unknown moving to America and desperate to make a name for himself , the Hit Man helped him on the ladder to success . |
| 11 | But Gareth Williams beat him on the second . |
| 12 | He trusted him on India , but also used him on the most sensitive domestic issues . |
| 13 | Then , when he sought to take the oath , the House itself refused and excluded him on the dubious ground that , being an atheist , he could not swear . |
| 14 | He had noticed the same man several times during the day , culminating about 5.40pm when he noticed him on the corner of Cross Street and Friar Street . |
| 15 | He was seen twice near the village of Langley Park on Saturday night , and yesterday a woman noticed him on the busy A167 dual carriageway on the outskirts of Durham City about 10 miles from Lanchester . |
| 16 | She schooled him on the lunge and in a fenced paddock over jumps , and then out in the fields and then out on the marshes , accompanying him on her own eventer and leading him over ditches and fences . |
| 17 | ‘ His mother told him on the morning of the killing that Joanne had phoned Dean the night before . |
| 18 | She told him on the bus , nerving herself , that the children were Charlie 's but that she had undertaken of her own accord not to tell anyone else because Charlie was the sort of person who could n't be lumbered . |
| 19 | He now faces the agony of receiving a letter she told him on the phone that she 'd written the day before she died . |
| 20 | So when I saw James ( true story this ) in Sainsbury 's , I walked up to him , leered , banged him on the elbow with a bottle of freshly squeezed orange juice and said , ‘ Tom Jones ! ’ because the last time I meet him was on the Tom Jones TV programme . |
| 21 | The dark bulk of St Catherine 's faced him on the other side of the wide road . |
| 22 | Putting down his carrot , Hazel ran across , scrambled up the bank and joined him on the bare ground under the low , close boughs . |
| 23 | She joined him on the settle . |
| 24 | ‘ Not before time , ’ Stevie remarked , as Patrick joined him on the 17th tee . |
| 25 | He describes it as being initiated by the Burgundian king 's brother , Godegisel , who made secret overtures to Clovis , persuaded him to invade Burgundy , and then joined him on the battlefield . |
| 26 | She closed the door behind her and joined him on the pavement and as she took several breaths of the crisp October air she suddenly felt how good it was to be alive . |
| 27 | On one occasion she threw him on the floor and on another she had deliberately broken his toys . |
| 28 | ‘ I showed him on the map where we would sink into the Atlantic if we did n't , ’ Capt Goebel said . |
| 29 | ‘ I showed him on the map where we would sink into the Atlantic if we did n't . ’ |
| 30 | I waited till we heard him on the stairs , then told them how I had offered to drive this run , but now that I was a passenger it would be against the rules . |