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Example sentences of "he [verb] [pers pn] on the " in BNC.

No	Sentence
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	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 .
4	Taking out a sheaf of documents , he laid them on the desk top .
5	Jehan pulled his tunic over his head , and he laid it on the empty stool to his right .
6	He laid it on the table halfway between him and Cley , his head on one side as he appeared to measure the distance precisely .
7	He laid it on the desk .
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	He got it on the market .
16	When I 'm fighting my sister he kicks me on the wotsit . ’
17	He slung them on the banister in a casual manner .
18	His hands were getting messy ; he wiped them on the creature 's cloak .
19	Tugging her gently , he seated her on the low stone wall .
20	But Rutherford hooked well , Crowe provided several of his best cover-drives , the groundstaff captured a dog before it could interfere with play , and Tufnell 's effort to prevent a boundary by slide-tackling the ball had the same result as when he tried it on the same ground a year ago : four .
21	Joe had been at the pub that evening , and when he arrived home just before ten , he found her on the floor .
22	He found it on the far side , punched the red button and watched the big metal doors start to move .
23	He found it on the last day of 1869 under nearly twenty feet of sand .
24	He found it on the floor by the armchair , rinsed it , poured it halffull of milk .
25	‘ 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 . ’
26	GUIL : He caught us on the wrong foot once or twice , perhaps , but I thought we gained some ground .
27	He overtook us on the river and arrived ahead of me .
28	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 .
29	He told me on the phone that Dawn will be leaving in a fortnight 's time and they have n't found a veterinary nurse to take her place .
30	Yeah , cos we was there in the August , they were n't , we moved in , in the July , there , and the girls were , Matthew was just four , cos just as we moved in our dad took Matthew to Hungary with him , it was like , it was like they were going on the following Wednesday , and he told me on the Friday , he came in on the Friday night , they planned , it was our dad , Crystal and Danielle , Crystal and Danielle , but she said even if I go out in the middle of .