Example sentences of "[to-vb] him on the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Much to his surprise , he found Burn was already staying there but ‘ laid up with a severe illness ’ , so he arranged to meet him on the following Monday .
2 We arranged to meet him on the early train at Skipton the next day and off he went to his bog .
3 At Aintree he beat The Thinker just over seven lengths and is due to meet him on the same terms , although Jimmy Frost , his rider , may put up a pound or two more than the minimum 10st .
4 She prised Burton out of digs in Streatham to install him on the top floor of her house in Pelham Crescent — just a few doors down from Emlyn Williams .
5 This appears to put him on the right side of the new rulers , even if Steaua were answerable to one of Ceausescu 's brothers .
6 You would n't mind if he married your daughter , but you would n't want to put him on the front page .
7 But James said his son had needed some firm , fatherly advice to keep him on the right track as a teenager .
8 On Feb. 20 Brooke had held talks with John Hume , the leader of the Social Democratic and Liberal Party , and the next day had met Gerry Collins , the Irish Foreign Affairs Minister , to brief him on the earlier meetings .
9 French superstar Zafonic was pulled out of the St James 's Palace Stakes when owner Prince Khalid Abdulla decided not to risk him on the rain-softened surface .
10 But Gloucestershire 's decision to place him on the restrictive List One of available players has been initially supported by the TCCB registration committee .
11 On March 1 , 1991 , Bolger personally telephoned US President Bush to congratulate him on the allied victory .
12 As the last of the militiamen were swallowed up by the forest a great roar of delight rose from the gipsies and they crowded around Noah to congratulate him on the unexpected victory he had scored over the Burford magistrate .
13 She had scarcely recovered her composure from that frantic evening before he invited her to join him on the royal yacht Britannia during Cowes Week .
14 I trust that at some stage I will have the opportunity to tax him on the curious proposal that legislation which increases the wage bill of companies does not necessarily increase the costs of those companies and therefore can be regarded as having nil effect on their competitiveness .
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