Example sentences of "he [vb past] [pers pn] on [art] " 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 | 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 | ‘ 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 | Jehan pulled his tunic over his head , and he laid it on the empty stool to his right . |
| 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 laid it on the desk . |
| 9 | He , he put all down and he , he pinned it on the back on the back door |
| 10 | He pecked her on the cheek . |
| 11 | He passed her on the stairs . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | He clapped me on the shoulder , proclaiming I was a great fellow , before sweeping away to join the dancers . |
| 15 | He clapped me on the shoulder . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | While Janine and John cooked supper , he led us on a trek through the woods and around the two-mile meadow . |
| 18 | He got it on the market . |
| 19 | He slung them on the banister in a casual manner . |
| 20 | His hands were getting messy ; he wiped them on the creature 's cloak . |
| 21 | Tugging her gently , he seated her on the low stone wall . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Joe had been at the pub that evening , and when he arrived home just before ten , he found her on the floor . |
| 24 | ‘ He found it on a table in my father 's chamber , ’ she announced . |
| 25 | He found it on the far side , punched the red button and watched the big metal doors start to move . |
| 26 | He found it on the last day of 1869 under nearly twenty feet of sand . |
| 27 | He found it on the floor by the armchair , rinsed it , poured it halffull of milk . |
| 28 | GUIL : He caught us on the wrong foot once or twice , perhaps , but I thought we gained some ground . |
| 29 | He overtook us on the river and arrived ahead of me . |
| 30 | 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 . |