Example sentences of "he [verb] [pron] [verb] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bonington was impressed with the Darc Star climbers when he met them training on the Scottish peaks last winter . |
| 2 | He was out of Birmingham ; not only that , he got himself space on the floor of a flat above the Two ‘ I 's coffee bar in Old Compton Street . |
| 3 | Another time he got us to lie on the floor with our legs in the air . |
| 4 | Almost as if he had willed himself there , he found himself standing on the scree at the foot of the rock wall , staring upwards , searching with the little experience he had gained on school climbing expeditions for footholds . |
| 5 | He found himself lying on the grass with those wolfish yellow eyes uncomfortably near to his . |
| 6 | He let them trail on the ground . |
| 7 | Moving the light round the half-circle , he let it rest on the third stone from the mouth of the chamber on the right hand side — the one which had been so prominent in his ‘ photograph ’ . |
| 8 | Oh he 's brilliant , he has them stuck on the side of his wardrobe door on big pages this size , you know , maybe this height , and it 's detailed right through the whole thing . |
| 9 | And there , the tailor , he 'd been trained in the war , and he he only had one la leg , and he seemed very nice , but er he told me to start on the Monday and then I got a letter . |
| 10 | He swung himself to sit on the edge of the bed , and dropped his head in his hands . |
| 11 | Not long afterwards , watching , he saw them appear on the roof They looked around for a moment and then went down . |
| 12 | Then he saw them lying on the ground , but not complete clubs , just the heads with their covers on , protruding from a detachable section that could be removed to expose the empty cylinder of the golf-bag . |
| 13 | Dulé passed them and remembered how he had only felt wonder , not this stab of pleasure , when first he saw them sleeping on the ground near Ariel 's cabin that long year ago . |
| 14 | He lets you doss on the floor of his bedroom . |
| 15 | Evans ' 100 inch fixed gear was too small for him on the way out , but he kept it turning on the harder return leg to edge ahead of the Phoenix rider repeating his eight second win over him at Newtownards last week . |
| 16 | Evans ' 100 inch fixed gear was too small for him on the way out , but he kept it turning on the harder return leg to edge ahead of the Phoenix rider repeating his eight second win over him at Newtownards last week . |
| 17 | Hopeless with that on because of course , he 's been wearing a pullover all the time and initially he had it clipped on the right hand side of his belts and of course , with that switch where is it ? |
| 18 | And he said he 'd had a whiskies and he was down by the station and he said he jumped on the train and he landed up in De Detroit , and then the South African War broke out |
| 19 | Lapping a straggler , he forced himself to focus on the shimmering surface . |
| 20 | There was no school on a Saturday and she would probably demand that he take her skating on the frozen lakes in the park — and in all honesty he did n't want to disappoint her . |
| 21 | He left it lying on the ground and you thought no one was about . |
| 22 | ‘ And yet he claims he walked on the frozen moat this morning before our arrival . ’ |