Example sentences of "on the [noun] and [verb] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | I waited for half-an-hour or so , then I went out to the phone box on the quay and rang his home . |
| 2 | Franco released him from his embrace , tapped him on the chest and dropped his tone of ghastly jocularity . |
| 3 | He sat down on the bed and let his arms sag . |
| 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 lay next to his daughter on the bed and put his arm round her . |
| 6 | ‘ Oh , Tess ! ’ said Bob , sitting down on the bed and putting his arm round her shoulders . |
| 7 | He sat on the bed and slid his arm round her shoulders . |
| 8 | Daniel sat on the bed and clasped his hands against the sides of his head . |
| 9 | ‘ He was riding on the mainland and broke his neck in a fall . ’ |
| 10 | He patted Herr Nordern on the shoulder and shook his head . |
| 11 | I eased off her sandals while he turned her head on the pillow and cupped his hand round her mouth . |
| 12 | Then he leaned on the wall and rubbed his face with his free hand . |
| 13 | I reflected on the next phase , and when he returned , sitting on the floor and resting his back on Masha 's bed , I plunged in again … |
| 14 | The student sits on the floor and opens his legs in front of him , pushing his body weight forward as far as it will go . |
| 15 | Speedie , a one-time Quaker with Darlington and like the two managers a former number seven at Anfield , headed his second on the hour and side-footed his third after a mix up between Wright and Liam O'Brien with fifteen minutes left . |
| 16 | Melissa asked , but before anyone could give a coherent answer Monsieur Gauthier managed to impose some sort of order on the chaos and shooed his family , like so many cackling hens , towards the private quarters at the rear of the hotel . |
| 17 | He was still visibly shaken when he entered his own room where , going to the window , he placed both hands on the sill and bowed his head . |
| 18 | Then he removed it , laid it on the desk and leaned his chin on his clasped hands . |
| 19 | As he turned her on the dance-floor and slid his arms around her waist , a shudder of convulsive desire went through her body , and he bent his head , mouth hot against her shivering throat , to whisper thickly , ‘ I love the way you move . |
| 20 | As she closed the door she glanced through the narrowing gap and saw Nathan toss down his pen , rest his elbows on the chart and rub his face . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Black Wry rose in him against this creature , this monstrous being who was turning Ireland into black barrenness ; above the mask his eyes glinted and he wanted to spring on the Robemaker and tear his throat from his body . |
| 23 | He put his foot on the accelerator and dipped his headlights . |
| 24 | The watchman lay down on the sand and put his arms together over his head . |
| 25 | Without pause or sign of remorse he swung his flashlight on the brothers and raised his rod again . |
| 26 | Let him take his chauffeur 's cap off very slowly and say softly to me , ‘ oh sir , I do n't never want to work for anyone else , never ’ ; let him kneel by the side of the great bed , in the moonlight , and let him lean over to kiss me gently on the lips and to run his leather-gloved hand tenderly across my cheek , across my lips , through my hair , saying all the time , ‘ oh sir , I 'm here sir , I 'm right here , I 'm right here by the bed ; was you calling me sir , did you call me ? ’ |
| 27 | He suffers seizure-like attacks , writhing on the ground and holding his head in pain as God invades his body . |
| 28 | I was milking my goats in the field , and he got down on the ground and put his head near my foot . |
| 29 | He then moved forward to the person on the ground and handcuffed his hands behind his back . |
| 30 | The dog sat down on the footpath and scratched his head . |