Example sentences of "he [vb past] [pron] 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 | I remember when he always used to read out during the service before the sermon the previous week 's collection and it used to consist of the collection last Sunday consisted of one pensioning note , twenty ha'penny half crown pieces , forty florins and he 'd go all through the coinage down to the last ha'penny but erm oh I believe he was , he was er very aristocratic , very aristocratic , but er Father , cos he used to come over our house quite a lot when my mother was on the parochial church council , and er he had a curate that was quite leftish and he got himself on the old Board of Guardians and of course he used to sort of er go into the Labour Club and was quite of er father , he said to old Father one night he said erm he 's a funny chap your curate he said well he , he 's the son of a farm labourer he says and I 'm the son of a country squire and that 's the difference . |
| 19 | He got it on the market . |
| 20 | He flung himself on the nearest sofa . |
| 21 | He slung them on the banister in a casual manner . |
| 22 | His hands were getting messy ; he wiped them on the creature 's cloak . |
| 23 | Tugging her gently , he seated her on the low stone wall . |
| 24 | He seated himself on the cold tiles and picked at their dark dusty colours with one finger . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Joe had been at the pub that evening , and when he arrived home just before ten , he found her on the floor . |
| 27 | Asked what he would feel like if , on Sunday night , he found himself on the 18th tee tied for the lead , he replied that it could only be a ‘ shattering experience ’ . |
| 28 | Presently , by what caprice of Providence he never knew , he found himself on the street that led to his lodgings , and stumbled towards it . |
| 29 | John Stork — when in his mid-30s — became aware of headhunting when he found himself on the receiving end of a headhunter 's call for the first time ; in due course he became the successful candidate , but did not take the job , staying on as a member of the international Board of Masius Wynne-Williams advertising agency , where he had earlier been head of research . |
| 30 | Conflicts with his superiors deprived him of the prospect of promotion , and at the age of twenty-five he found himself on the retired list , reduced to half pay in 1812 . |