Example sentences of "him on [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You 'll get a fill off Grantie when ye meet him on yer rounds , ’ his wife pulled the chair back from the bare table . |
| 2 | She had laid him in Dot 's arms and let her hold him on her own . |
| 3 | The way he was touching her and the expression in his eyes made her optimistic as she click-clacked beside him on her high heels . |
| 4 | His mother held him on her knee and explained for the hundredth time how big the ship would be and how many oceans it would cross and what his big brother would see from it . |
| 5 | She schooled him on the lunge and in a fenced paddock over jumps , and then out in the fields and then out on the marshes , accompanying him on her own eventer and leading him over ditches and fences . |
| 6 | She carried him on her back for much of the next three years , until her back ached , and he was forced to fend more for himself . |
| 7 | Theresa gave him a brief , pitying smile , dragged the plastic bags from beneath the seat then expertly freed her brother and settled him on her left hip while , with the other hand , she collapsed the pushchair , with a single vigorous shake . |
| 8 | Amy never smacked him but would jerk him on to her hip and dump him on her bed saying : ‘ Bloody awful noise . ’ |
| 9 | A SMART sales rep persuaded a thief to return her stolen car by calling him on her mobile phone . |
| 10 | ‘ The Doctor ’ , as the old man referred to him on her subsequent visits alone , ‘ the Doctor said as 'ow ‘ e were all for veg , like Mr Chadwick . ’ |
| 11 | Just as Debbie was about to wind up the window , he suddenly asked her for a lift , saying he only lived 5 minutes down the road and could she drop him on her way ? |
| 12 | He put his head on her shoulder and she turned and picked him up and sat him on her broad lap , her arms tight about him . |
| 13 | Jenna stormed , brushing past him on her way to the door . |
| 14 | He drank it , she dandled him on her knee ; presently his eyes closed and he slept again , so that Mary could return him to his cradle . |
| 15 | And to have met him on her own terms , or by accident , would have been one thing , and a delight , but to look as though she were some silly teenager following an idol … well , that was entirely another . |
| 16 | Matilda would love to have him on her side , and not only because of his reputation . ’ |
| 17 | Marjorie went to him and took him on her lap . |
| 18 | During Head of the Family 's stage run , Sarah Long 's agent , Adza Vincent , watched a performance and was so impressed with the promise shown by Crawford that she put him on her books . |
| 19 | Thankfully Steve was totally enraptured by the beautiful Maria Luisa so Ruth did n't have him on her conscience . |
| 20 | ‘ He 'll be on her side , she 'll get him on her side . |
| 21 | He also claimed a declaration that the refusal of the directors of Newcastle United to release him from its retention list or alternatively to put him on its transfer list was unreasonable . |
| 22 | The other flights Lendl has in mind are the erratic ones which transport him on their excursions to the net in his long quest to win the Wimbledon title . |
| 23 | To accommodate him on their overseas register Leeds have had to part with Craig Izzard . |
| 24 | At that moment , they were passing slowly by him on their way out , the tall parson with the crumpled clown 's face , the coffin with its bearers , the black-clad women . |
| 25 | But the reds and browns are not sure if they want him on their side . |
| 26 | Last summer Hutton scored a record 1561 runs in the North Yorks & South Durham League , as well as 700 in cup matches , and when Durham took him on their tour of Zimbabwe last February he made 143 against their national ‘ B ’ side in Harare . |
| 27 | He wanted to confide in O'Hara , to get him on their side , but he did n't want every Tom , Dick and Harry knowing their business . |
| 28 | How she had looked at him on their wedding day — as if he were a god ! |
| 29 | We dismissed him on their information . |
| 30 | I know he would regularly come down to Low Birk Hatt — and , indeed , Sleetburn when we were there — with his violin , and Mother used to accompany him on our organ . |