Example sentences of "he [adv] [verb] [pron] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , he only puts them on the |
| 2 | he only puts them on the floor . |
| 3 | Philby claimed he thoughtfully put them on the right track to divert suspicion from himself . |
| 4 | When he finally got her on the phone , she only asked him how he was then said she had to rush , and put the receiver down before he had time to tell her . |
| 5 | He had seen beyond the excitement of being approached for his first book ; he already visualised it on the bookshelves ! |
| 6 | Her hand throbbed beneath his where he still trapped it on the table . |
| 7 | And so he always laid himself on the line . |
| 8 | At the wicket he is a Roman general , unquestioning of his own ability to defeat the barbarians ; yet because the pride and haughtiness are justified by having repeatedly proved himself to be the best , one can not resent them , especially since he usually leaves them on the field of combat . |
| 9 | Scott was so pleased with the style he had evolved at Battersea , a treatment that humanised industrial forms without denying their function , that he also used it on the Guinness Factory at Park Royal , west London . |
| 10 | At Cabinets on 9 , 10 and 11 December he cautiously defended it on the ground that Hoare must have known more than they did , and defended also the continuation of Hoare 's holiday , although this by then had become more of a matter of nursing than of recreation , for he had fallen on the ice and broken his nose in two places . |
| 11 | to put his coat on , I picked him up and tried to carry him , and he just flung himself around so hard I had to put him down and he immediately flung himself on the floor again ! |
| 12 | Charlie showed no obvious signs of friendship as he immediately caught me on the chin . |
| 13 | He virtually threw me on the delivery bed and the midwife yanked down my trousers — and there was the baby , with his head and a hand out , gazing at us . |
| 14 | He then kissed her on the cheek and said goodbye . |
| 15 | He voluntarily relinquished it on the eve of seventy , the only man of this century to have been Prime Minister three times . |
| 16 | She clung to him as he charged up the stairs and into her bedroom where he unceremoniously dumped her on the bed . |
| 17 | Was it , I wondered , his natural reaction to something extraordinary , and did he therefore use it on the stage , or was he simply acting and registering what he thought was the appropriate emotion under the circumstances ? |
| 18 | During the eight years I worked for Fred Workman he never lectured me on the practice or ethics of journalism , and in assigning me to a story he never told me what to do . |