Example sentences of "he [adv] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Con settled down opposite and when the boxer leaped to lick his face he clumped him companionably on the head with his fist . |
| 2 | She beamed at her husband , bravely facing the barrage of produce , and winced as a particularly juicy specimen caught him right on the chin . |
| 3 | Opened the fridge door and hit him right on the |
| 4 | Three months in America in 1914 , raising funds for St Enda 's and mixing with hard-line Irish-Americans , set him single-mindedly on a revolutionary course . |
| 5 | The Harvard Planning Office had brought him in on a dispute between the track coach and the builders of a new gymnasium , concerning the dimensions of the new indoor track . |
| 6 | ‘ I need to see Mr Patterson , ’ I said as if I was letting him in on a big secret . |
| 7 | Yes , well Tony Primmer 's one of the riders from Eastbourne that we managed to pick up because we can get him in on a low point average . |
| 8 | She told him about the latest developments from Zurich while dressing the wound , filling him in on the backgrounds of Hendrique and Milchan as well as relaying Philpott 's instructions . |
| 9 | We try and slip him in on the sly when we think we 've got them hooked . |
| 10 | And Steve obediently went off , taking with him a jar of Marmite in a garden trowel as a substitute for coal in a shovel , and he stood out there on the front porch in the cold listening to the silence and looking at the stars , waiting for them to let him in on the last stroke of Big Ben on the radio : a faint , feeble echo of some once meaningful ritual , though what it had meant or now could mean nobody there knew or had ever known . |
| 11 | He referred to the policy of separate development as ‘ apart-hate ’ in his first few letters , until somebody must have clued him in on the correct spelling . |
| 12 | He looked around for someone who would fill him in on the gossip . |
| 13 | Jack filled him in on the scanty information they had already obtained . |
| 14 | Simon and Marian laid him down on a couch of deer-skins . |
| 15 | The village doctor was one of the house guests ; he and Andy 's father hold the boy up , letting water drain from his mouth , then lay him down on a coat on the snow . |
| 16 | He would have been happier if the Latin American had made at least a pretence at attempting to beat him down on the charter price . |
| 17 | He began to speak out loud over the sound of the copious running water ; he congratulated himself for not crying in public , he congratulated himself for not getting hurt , for not letting himself be assaulted on the way home , for not letting anyone corner him or get him down on the floor or up against a wall but for keeping walking instead . |
| 18 | I sat him down on the kerb and called police . ’ |
| 19 | They overpowered him and , while the rest held him down on the pavement , one of them put the razor in the corner of Joyce 's mouth and slit his cheek backwards beyond the ear . |
| 20 | The excitement was very high , and the pressure of the other chimpanzees in the tree forced him down on the ground , where he was greeted by the screaming females . |
| 21 | She jumped up and thrust him down on the seat , holding his shoulders . |
| 22 | He did not put up any resistance when they flung him down on the rainswept slabs , and tied his ankles with a thick cord . |
| 23 | She held out her hand with deliberate provocation and , drawing him down on the edge of the bed beside her , she gave a little laugh which came from deep in her throat . |
| 24 | Blood-red were his spurs i " the golden noon ; wine-red was his velvet coat ; When they shot him down on the highway , |
| 25 | ‘ Mussed ’ is a word so outmoded I 'm surprised the God of Media did n't strike him down on the instant with a thunderbolt . |
| 26 | Nick set him down on the terrace and he rushed indoors . |
| 27 | He wo n't , he wa he , I had him down on the |
| 28 | Blood , blood red were his spurs , moon , rhymed red with his velvet coat , when they shot him down on the highway , down like a dog on the highway , and he lay in his blood on the highway , with a bunch of lace at his throat . |
| 29 | As I understood , he was asleep for much of the time , and indeed , I found him so on the few occasions I had a spare moment to ascend to that little attic room . |
| 30 | She reached up , and kissing him fiercely on the lips , whispered a rhyme she had made up years before : " Tristram Pascoe , Tristram Pascoe , never , never let your lass go ! " — and when they had hugged , she watched him climb nimbly over the wall and heard him jump down into the hayfield on the other side . |