Example sentences of "he [verb] [pron] [adv prt] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he laid her down on the horsehair sofa , and said Mrs Patten would not be in yet , and there was time ; and time there was , and what had happened last night was repeated , once and then again , until she , flushed and dishevelled , pulled down her dress , and said ‘ She is coming . |
| 2 | He laid them out on Stephen 's desk and did his best to smooth them flat . |
| 3 | He laid them out on the desk , got a plastic bag out of the bottom drawer of the filing cabinet and swept all the bits and pieces into it . |
| 4 | He laid it down on a rock and plunged his arm in the sack once more . |
| 5 | One by one he checked them off on his register , letting them stagger out into the corridor where the ghouls who liked disasters were already forming a pressing crowd . |
| 6 | He lines it up on the shiny sideboard . |
| 7 | The grocer , a hard-faced ex-soldier whose right hand lacked a thumb ( Melanie wondered , had he lopped it off on the bacon-slicer ? |
| 8 | But I was promoting a Neil Diamond concert and one day he got me up on stage during this tour , and introduced me to the audience . |
| 9 | He got one back on us at the 15th to put him three shots behind again , so the 17th was going to be a crucial hole . |
| 10 | He flung himself down on my bed , trying it out in different positions . |
| 11 | Then he flung himself down on the settee . |
| 12 | And he flung himself down on his bed , his hands over his ears . |
| 13 | And you can guarantee , he was on t' phone on Saturday , he phoned me up on Monday , he phoned me on Tuesday and said , now I remember what I wanted . |
| 14 | He was speaking as he jerked himself out on the sandy foreshore . |
| 15 | I was in the kitchen when he played it back on the TV — I remember that day so well — and he called me into the living room to take a look . |
| 16 | He meets us over on the far side of the town at nine thirty P.M. ’ |
| 17 | It 's two nil to Notts , it 's stuff here because Tony scored and he had n't scored previously this season when he banged one in on eight minutes . |
| 18 | ‘ At the house — he dropped me off on the way . |
| 19 | He plopped himself down on the nearest chair . |
| 20 | We stayed on board and we went up on to every deck and there was even a gentleman , he showed us up on the bridge on that er on that and , and of course there was the little shop and I bought I thought I must buy something on the Queen Elizabeth and I bought a pen . |
| 21 | Finally he hauled himself out on the allied side . |
| 22 | No , he was n't , because his head came up and he threw himself back on the ground behind him and he was rolling around in a heap of laughter . |
| 23 | He threw himself down on the bed with his head on my stomach , groaning , and between the groans saying that he would be a good husband in future , he honestly would , he adored me , he was very ashamed and only hoped I could forgive him . |
| 24 | Suddenly he threw himself down on the ground and rolled over and over in the dust . |
| 25 | He threw himself down on the huge old bed and stared at the sloping timber ceiling . |
| 26 | The cigarette glowed again in the dark , and he hitched himself up on one elbow and ground it out on the earth . |
| 27 | He takes it out on the children and myself ( not physically ) , has almost become an isolationist and is very difficult to live with . |
| 28 | Then he packed them off on a plane to Islamabad to meet the president . |
| 29 | He switched out the light , but the darkness made his skin crawl so he switched it back on , then took Sophie 's sweater from the floor and draped it over the lampshade . |
| 30 | The light was very bright when he switched it back on . |