Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [verb] him on [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ When he talks to you he makes you feel as if you are the only person in the entire world , ’ said one woman who met him on the campaign trail .
2 Then , with a girl who loved him on the seat of his bike , he came to a bridge he was never to cross .
3 Amos Clapham was leaning on the bar of the Beehive Inn in Gawthorpe one Sunday lunchtime in 1963 when in burst another local , Lewis Hartley , who slapped him on the back and remarked how tired he was looking .
4 The winner of five of his six races as a novice last season and probably an unlucky loser of the other , where he made mistakes at two consecutive hurdles , Morley Street was ridden with considerable discretion by Jimmy Frost , who brought him on the scene with a double handful between the last two flights , jumping to the front at the last , which he hit quite hard .
5 One day he slipped off alone , out of interest , to look up a local doctor , who took him on a tour of hospitals .
6 And he turned and moved across the dais and out of the studio , followed by his cohort of technicians and production assistants , who thumped him on the back and shouted their own compliments into his receptive ears .
7 He then slowly pulled out some bank notes and furtively handed them over to the large man , who patted him on the back and quickly got off at the next station .
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