Example sentences of "on his [noun] [conj] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He mounted it on his vehicle and made it work . |
| 2 | ‘ Actually I 'm keeping the Australian connection in reserve for what I hope will be a final , knock-out blow , ’ Ross added , before snapping shut the locks on his suitcase and lifting it off the bed . |
| 3 | One of them proposed arresting him as he lay on his bed and taking him off to prison with all the bedclothes . |
| 4 | He turned over on his back and drew her up so that her head lay on his shoulder . |
| 5 | Tom helped him into his pyjamas , carried him up the ladder on his back and put him to bed . |
| 6 | Come on , surely you 'd prefer to have Giggs in your team than any of the above , and If you had him , you 'd stick no.11 on his back and play him ( predominantly ) down the left . |
| 7 | Except that I had n't seen him since he lay on his camp-bed and watched me sleeping naked with his beloved wife , the woman I 'd always characterized to him as ‘ sister ’ . |
| 8 | And Meg told the watching millions that her mum hammered on his door and woke him from a nap during a break in filming . |
| 9 | He beat out ten minutes of pain-filled , throbbing rhythm , sometimes accompanied by low , anguished singing , before Doris came stamping and peg up the stairs and banged on his door and told him to stop it at once . |
| 10 | ‘ You knocked on his door and asked him ? ’ |
| 11 | He had it half out of its sheath when a hard knee came down on his forearm and smashed him to the flagstones again . |
| 12 | Her fingers were gentle but firm , and he sprawled back on his elbows and watched her as she lifted his foot on to her lap and massaged all the tired muscles . |
| 13 | A SCHOOL bus driver packed in twice the legal limit of pupils on his coach and told them : ‘ Duck if you see a copper . ’ |
| 14 | A SCHOOL bus driver packed in twice the legal limit of pupils on his coach and told them : ‘ Duck if you see a copper . ’ |
| 15 | She got up , and seized Bob as he moved between table and oven , putting her face down on his shoulder and hugging him fiercely . |
| 16 | She put a hand on his shoulder and marched him into her tack-room at the end of the yard . |
| 17 | I got my hand on his jaw and forced it open . |
| 18 | The reporter squirmed in his seat , and then seizing Stella 's hand placed it on his lap and held it there , gripping her by the wrist . |
| 19 | She levered herself away from him with a hand on his chest and looked him dead in the eye . |
| 20 | They stood him on his feet and punched him mercilessly until he fell to the ground . |
| 21 | ‘ Get him on his feet and walk him up and down . |
| 22 | He put on his shirt and suggested she should wash herself at the sink . |
| 23 | Davout took a slit envelope from the papers on his desk and threw it across . |
| 24 | Chiodini took the diary from the pile of documents on his desk and showed him that the lawyer had marked several pages during the previous three months with a red asterisk , the last being two days earlier . |
| 25 | I thought it was really very funny , this long straggly black hair , he looked absolutely miserable , he thought he was now spiritually calm and spiritually sane and he 's got this peculiar thing on his head that makes him look so daft . |
| 26 | As though you just shit on his head and rubbed it in with your foot or something , you know ! |
| 27 | He stopped to put it back on again , clamping it on his head and holding it there . |
| 28 | They put ropes on his head and tied him up . |
| 29 | He pulls on his ponytail and settles it like a pet comfortably along the collar . |
| 30 | ‘ Ever the gracious hostess , I see , ’ he said with a cool irony , looking round the neatly furnished and immaculately tidy room with an expression on his face that irked her . |