Example sentences of "on his [noun] [conj] [v-ing] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 . |
| 2 | One of them proposed arresting him as he lay on his bed and taking him off to prison with all the bedclothes . |
| 3 | She got up , and seized Bob as he moved between table and oven , putting her face down on his shoulder and hugging him fiercely . |
| 4 | He stopped to put it back on again , clamping it on his head and holding it there . |
| 5 | Levering himself up to sit back on his heels and pulling her easily with him , he lifted her on to his lap , so that she found herself straddling him , her naked breasts pressed against the sensuous roughness of his chest , with only thin swimming costumes protecting her from ultimate intimacy . |
| 6 | The huer 's job , after announcing the sighting of the shoal , was to guide his own boat to the fish , signalling East or West by removing his coat and waving it from side to side and , when the boat was on top of the shoal , by placing his coat on his telescope and holding it aloft . |