Example sentences of "he [verb] on one " in BNC.
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| 1 | A photograph of him as the Devil ( not in female disguise ) shows him poised on one foot , the other leg bent so that his whole body is tilted eccentrically . |
| 2 | His Mum made him sit on one of the chairs that were all round the walls and look at the magazines . |
| 3 | ‘ He passed on one of his girl friends to me , ’ Mitchell said . |
| 4 | But er , he he hopped on one day and er had a talk with him and so on and took my temperature and pulse and that , this , that and other , he said well I 'll call again he said , when I 'm by , but he never did ! |
| 5 | He sits on one of the little white stools . |
| 6 | Next he jumped in the air with his feet together and his knees bent , then he knelt on one knee while she leapt into the air . |
| 7 | ‘ Nothing above the belly or below the knee tonight ! ’ he exclaimed on one of these evenings , savouring the rowdy songs and bawdy rhymes which resulted . |
| 8 | Next time he came on one of these recces he would bring a bag for these trophies , but the chinagraph pencil had worked well in noting on his slate the depths of water and the position of that false beach . |
| 9 | My father , unfortunately , he came on one of their little barrels out the glen but it was empty . |
| 10 | Sarah said sarcastically , but he dropped on one knee and put his hand on his heart . |
| 11 | Like he sings on one of his mega singles , open your mind . |
| 12 | She thought : Is he going on one of his things then cottaging , cruising … |
| 13 | He climbed on one side of the desks , stood on tiptoe , and , forcing up the skylight , eased his head through into the icy December wind . |
| 14 | I sit scratching my head wondering what 's happened , and he puffs on one of those stinking cigars , telling me it was , obvious this would happen right back when I moved that pawn . |
| 15 | It appears that he stepped on one of those box mines placed in a gap in a hedgerow . |
| 16 | I only accepted this [ methadone ] maintenance course to make sure he went on one , too , because if I had n't , he would have carried on using gear and I could n't have handled that . |
| 17 | He put on one of the Foreman return contests — though even he would admit now that the word contest is stretching credibility . |
| 18 | He put on one of the Foreman return contests — though even he would admit now that the word contest is stretching credibility . |
| 19 | He put on one of his most winning smiles . |
| 20 | Whether any of the grudges was strong enough to justify murder was another consideration he put on one side for the time being . |
| 21 | He hauls on one oar , and we spin deftly off the rock . |
| 22 | In 1846 he sat on one of the tsar 's many secret committees on peasant affairs , in 1848 he chaired another , and in 1849 he succeeded his uncle , the Grand Duke Mikhail , as head of the empire 's military schools . |
| 23 | He picked on one , demanding the results of the current analysis . |