Example sentences of "him [verb] [adv] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was very unusual for him to go anywhere on a Thursday , whether Porteneil or any further afield . |
| 2 | He stayed with us for a while in Salisbury early in 1921 and I can still hear him thumping away on the piano singing his favourite song ‘ Signora ’ in a not very tuneful voice . |
| 3 | He frightened train crews who saw him walking aimlessly on the railway tracks as if he were a real person . |
| 4 | The group , headed by Stanley Kalms , said his resignation would ‘ enable him to concentrate fully on the financial management and control of the group 's retail businesses . ’ |
| 5 | She heard him drop quietly on the other side , and draw the bolt . |
| 6 | DJAMOLODINE Abdoujaparov , the former Soviet sprinter whose erratic finishing caused him to crash spectacularly on the Champs-Elysees during the final stage of the Tour de France last July , was yesterday disqualified after winning the Belgian Classic from Ghent to Wevelgem for pulling the jersey of Italian Mario Cipollini . |
| 7 | The effort made him flop forward on the table . |
| 8 | But her sudden command made him stand violently on the pedal and they were both jerked forward against their seat-belts . |
| 9 | She made him stand idly on the sidewalk while she made a big deal of paying the cab driver . |
| 10 | Vincent liked to have him sitting drowsily on the floor of his studio on a few sacks while he worked . |
| 11 | She clung to Jacob 's arm , saw him spirited away on a tide of compliments . |
| 12 | She had watched him working delicately on the door , with all the attention to detail of the perfectionist , and had known him to be the sort who got what he wanted in life through hard work , never by taking the easy way out . |