Example sentences of "and [vb past] him on [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Then they peeled back the bedcovers and laid him on a crisp sheet , covering him from the waist down with another sheet .
2 Then the door of the Earl 's hall slowly yielded , and his father carried him in and laid him on the same bales .
3 Then , when he sought to take the oath , the House itself refused and excluded him on the dubious ground that , being an atheist , he could not swear .
4 Putting down his carrot , Hazel ran across , scrambled up the bank and joined him on the bare ground under the low , close boughs .
5 When Richard came a couple of steps nearer — it would never have occurred to him to go back until the matter was satisfactorily settled — Harry , looking faintly surprised , as though he could n't believe that anything could be quite so simple , raised the adjustable spanner and hit him on the left side of the head , just below the ear .
6 I 've called him Ferdinand ( not Caliban ) three times , and complimented him on a horrid new tie .
7 For a time he offered his services to Louis VII of France and accompanied him on the second crusade as papal legate in charge of the Anglo-Norman contingent .
8 What Hornung had done was to take his brother-in-law 's famous detective , Sherlock Holmes , and put him on the wrong side of the law ; a friendly dedication acknowledged the debt .
9 He is himself unreadable and hence ungovernable — a walking accusation levelled at the sympathetic educated sensibility which seeks simultaneously to understand him and set him on the straight and narrow .
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