Example sentences of "[vb pp] on him [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Burton arrived at the first rehearsal word-perfect and with the part already sewn on him like a skin . |
| 2 | The difference with this baby is that he himself has selected the time at which he will display the pattern , rather than having it imposed on him by a mother 's pattern of giving care . |
| 3 | The walls closed on him like a vice . |
| 4 | He was standing back to admire the conflagration when the full weight of its rightful resident landed on him from a bough above , where it had been watching . |
| 5 | The last person to have the title emperor conferred on him by a pope before 962 had been a minor Italian prince , Berengar I , who had died in 924 . |
| 6 | Well , he supposedly had drink spilled on him by a coachman so , by way of revenge , he poured brandy over the man and ignited him . |
| 7 | The dark took him , rushed on him like a cloud , and the noises stopped . |
| 8 | It was a death sentence , Trent knew with absolute certainty , passed on him by a man who was both intelligent and psychopathic . |