Example sentences of "he [vb past] [pron] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | From the moment he modelled himself on Mussolini , he resembled nothing so much as an actor touring the provinces in a play which someone else had made a success of in London . |
| 2 | He laid everything on it and stood back to look , like someone in an art gallery sizing up a surrealist exhibit . |
| 3 | Pushing the coverlet aside , he laid her on the bed , and sat down beside her , studying her white face . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Taking out a sheaf of documents , he laid them on the desk top . |
| 7 | Jehan pulled his tunic over his head , and he laid it on the empty stool to his right . |
| 8 | He laid it on the table halfway between him and Cley , his head on one side as he appeared to measure the distance precisely . |
| 9 | ‘ 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 . |
| 10 | He laid it on the desk . |
| 11 | Nigel made many enemies and no friends with these pieces , but he prided himself on his integrity . |
| 12 | In his own bed in Mill Hill Rufus used a sheath or practised coitus interruptus , which he prided himself on being rather good at . |
| 13 | As he prided himself on his fair and honest trading , and the high standards which he always maintained except in extenuating circumstances , the ginger-haired totter had decided he should do the right thing by her . |
| 14 | He prided himself on being a very well esteemed member of the British community . |
| 15 | He prided himself on his fluency in the tongue , but the stranger only looked bemused . |
| 16 | He , he put all down and he , he pinned it on the back on the back door |
| 17 | He pecked her on the cheek . |
| 18 | He passed her on the stairs . |
| 19 | He passed it on verbatim . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | He met her on it . |
| 23 | Faye I have got to see you ’ , he met her on her way to work around 7am . |
| 24 | He clapped me on the shoulder , proclaiming I was a great fellow , before sweeping away to join the dancers . |
| 25 | He clapped me on the shoulder . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | He led her on right until the last minute . |
| 28 | While Janine and John cooked supper , he led us on a trek through the woods and around the two-mile meadow . |
| 29 | Oh you can keep going though totally over the top I thought well Joseph 's was twelve ninety nine and Ben 's was fourteen nineteen ninety nine and that 's just tough that I 've got you know , I ca n't get Charlotte 's any cheaper than that , but , I mean they 're not gon na know how much I 've , they 're not gon na say well you 've got five pound more than what I have cos they 're not of that age so , that 's how I 've left it , that 's what I 'm gon na do , I 'll get her the circus and then they can swap them over and Joseph will be happy that he got something on wheels |
| 30 | 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 . |