Example sentences of "he [verb] [pers pn] on " 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 | Jehan pulled his tunic over his head , and he laid it on the empty stool to his right . |
| 6 | He laid it on the table halfway between him and Cley , his head on one side as he appeared to measure the distance precisely . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . |
| 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 | He passed it on verbatim . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | He met her on it . |
| 16 | Faye I have got to see you ’ , he met her on her way to work around 7am . |
| 17 | He took Julie upstairs in his room and he he push her he push her on his bed and he he raped her . |
| 18 | He clapped me on the shoulder , proclaiming I was a great fellow , before sweeping away to join the dancers . |
| 19 | He clapped me on the shoulder . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | He led her on right until the last minute . |
| 22 | While Janine and John cooked supper , he led us on a trek through the woods and around the two-mile meadow . |
| 23 | He got it on the market . |
| 24 | When I 'm fighting my sister he kicks me on the wotsit . ’ |
| 25 | He slung them on the banister in a casual manner . |
| 26 | His hands were getting messy ; he wiped them on the creature 's cloak . |
| 27 | Tugging her gently , he seated her on the low stone wall . |
| 28 | Has he consulted them on their right to choose another landlord under the Government 's new Tenants Choice ? |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | William gave up , but he tried it on his nan later , when most people had gone . |