Example sentences of "have [vb pp] him on the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now the Supreme Court has put him on the spot . |
| 2 | Since joining BP as a petroleum engineer in 1974 , his career has kept him on the move . |
| 3 | She had the fleeting impression that she 'd caught him on the raw . |
| 4 | They were as David and Jonathan , but if anyone had hinted such Jack would have poked him on the nose , and as for Charlie … |
| 5 | He could no longer keep his eyes open to watch any one of the Thrill-a-Minute videos which , until quite recently , would have kept him on the edge of his seat . |
| 6 | down into his arteries and we ca n't get anything down there so they 're blocked , but he said how the hell he survived that op I do n't know he said they could 've done more with his legs but it meant another hour and a quarter minutes in surgery , and he said he 'd had enough we could n't have kept him on the table a minute longer so he said all we can do is wait , so now mum said well he 's alright in intensive care , he 's responding well , getting over the operation well , but what we was worried about was him breathing on his own , had he , had he been you see , anyway he said this on er Thursday |
| 7 | Someone claimed to have heard him on the radio from Darwin — but it was always someone at a third hand remove ; someone who had heard it from someone who had heard it from someone . |
| 8 | A few of his followers had joined him on the dais . |
| 9 | The man had approached him on the street while he was walking home , head down against the wind . |
| 10 | But she had met him on the towpath the next week and the one following . |
| 11 | Yeah I 've seen him on the telly |
| 12 | There was Barrymore , with the light in his hand , looking out across the moor , exactly as I had seen him on the night before . |
| 13 | She had seen him on the telly — he had been on the early evening news tooting his trumpet . |
| 14 | ‘ One must n't take too much of a good thing , for money is easily spent ’ , said one of Beatrice Potter 's hosts , putting the cigarette she had offered him on the mantelpiece after one or two puffs , for the next night . |
| 15 | Patrick had briefed him on the reasons for their sudden turnaround in Bucharest and the dash back to the Channel . |
| 16 | Oh I 've got him on the tape |
| 17 | I think that i i i I do n't , I 'd I I reckon they 've got him on the kidnapping charge . |
| 18 | The divisional inspector had told him on the telephone of arrangements made for the use of a former Salvation Army hall , opposite the nick . |
| 19 | In Paris itself , his priority , thanks to Schellenberg , had got him on the Berlin Express , but B17 bombers of the American 8th Air Force operating out of England had inflicted severe damage on the Frankfurt railway marshalling yards . |
| 20 | And yet he could have sworn that someone had tapped him on the shoulder . |
| 21 | And then he knew what it was that had tapped him on the shoulder . |
| 22 | Buckmaster had hired him on the spot . |
| 23 | Sorge had asked him on the way out of Washington . |
| 24 | ‘ How the hell did they get to England ? ’ the Exec Director had asked him on the phone . |
| 25 | Anyway I was back in the office when I suddenly felt hot and faint … you see I had left him on the island , with three lanes still to cross . |
| 26 | And of course that was why Hardy had taken against him , why he had left him on the sidelines any time he picked a team for some action , why he had now given him a job that he knew anyone else in the unit would have balked at . |
| 27 | Lyall , who like the 42-year-old McGiven had his career cut short by injury at West Ham , groomed McGiven in the way that Ron Greenwood had groomed him on the coaching ladder . |
| 28 | On one occasion an Irish visitor asked a late tenant , Mr Crawshaw , if the lady in white who had passed him on the stairs would be coming down to breakfast soon . |
| 29 | The nightmare thing , the thing they had said was her brother ( but she knew that this was impossible ) had killed him on the staircase . |
| 30 | She had sent him on the way to solving the mystery of her husband 's murder . |