Example sentences of "[pers pn] [conj] he [vb past] on [art] " in BNC.

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1 She put her arms round him where he stood on the threshold of her room .
2 Only the mouth told him that he looked on the face of his friend .
3 His mount threw him and he stayed on the beach , witnesses swear to that .
4 His only certain memory of his mother was of her looking out of the same kitchen window and calling to him as he played on the grass .
5 There were no accidents unless you count ‘ Survival ’ wildlife cameraman Dieter Plage being run down by an enraged tusker who passed right over him as he lay on the ground .
6 Some bullets hit him in the air and more bullets hit him as he lay on the ground .
7 A pile of documents , clippings and photographs fell with him and drifted around him as he writhed on the floor .
8 He was confronted by the 70-year-old owner who found him as he crouched on the stairs .
9 Two or three boys stood round him as he sat on the floor nursing the side of his head where a lump was rising under his probing fingers .
10 I did n't know him when he got on the bus .
11 He had one or two best pals after Bernard , but I never took to any of them ; and as he got older he never brought anybody with him when he came on a visit .
12 Shake yourself by the hand ! ’ my grandfather used to say to him when he went on a visit .
13 I said what would I like to say , disgusted with the way he 's been treated , I said my father left intensive care at one o'clock on Friday , we was told he was gon na leave there at four o'clock to go home and have a meal and be with him when he went on the ward , when we came back , he 'd been moved , he 'd gone on the ward , he was plonked in the chair , his catheter was on his lap , it had leaked all over him , his dressing was hanging off and seeping with green stuff the wound on his leg was run all down over his foot , he 'd got no cover on his seat so he could see , Dave said they looked and they did n't look very bloody nice
14 ‘ Jim knew it because he lived on the edge ’
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