Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] he on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Almost twenty years alter the incident Coleridge was persuaded by Byron to publish the poem , and he then made the sensational claim that he had been able to remember 200 to 300 lines of perfect poetry when he had awoken from a drug-induced sleep , and was busy writing them down when he was interrupted by someone from Porlock demanding to see him on business . |
| 2 | ‘ Would n't want to meet him on a dark night , ’ breathed Arthur , trying to make light of the incident . |
| 3 | I 've pulled him out of it I pulled him out of it for the simple reason , he is the only one which is , I did n't want to segregate him on his own . |
| 4 | It suddenly crossed my mind that perhaps he thought I had come to see him on a professional level , that I was in need of spiritual help or whatever . |
| 5 | Marc got up , face like a thunder-cloud , the look he gave Peter designed to shrivel him on the spot . |
| 6 | ERIC Butler , a charity worker , fought back with his swordstick when a mugger tried to strangle him on the London Underground in 1987 . |
| 7 | She walked two paces backwards to the bed , only in her shirt , and tried to pull him on her as she fell . |
| 8 | Gloucester Crown Court heard that 24 year old Michael Jones headbutted and punched PC Kevin Frost as he tried to arrest him on suspicion of damaging a burger bar in Cheltenham . |
| 9 | When American writer Lester Bangs toured England with The Clash , Bernie Rhodes tried to set him on fire . |
| 10 | But the common story , so far as we can tell , was of a prospering contado helping a few of the citizens to be successful merchants , carrying local market goods and some from longer distances ; and if Francis ' father had not been a successful merchant trading into France , the saint would not have borne the name he did , nor suffered the intense reaction to his father 's worldly values which helped to inspire him on the path to poverty and heaven . |
| 11 | It was former Dublin manager Kevin Heffernan who , McGilligan reckons , helped to put him on the road to success . |
| 12 | She had stood naked in front of him in the bedroom , tried to kiss him on another occasion and put her arms round him . |
| 13 | The landlord 's wife was expected to accompany him on the trip to Head Office . |
| 14 | She said : ‘ He holds out his hands for him and loves to have him on his knee . |
| 15 | I 've really had to work hard to get where I got to and when I fight a black guy , I know that he 's had to do the same thing , I think : ‘ Well , he 's had it as hard as me ’ and little zest goes out of your punching , I just want to beat him on points . |
| 16 | Full-back Steve Mungall wants to join him on the score-sheet after bookmakers Stanley 's gave special odds on his scoring feats . |
| 17 | I could n't wait to tell him on Monday . |
| 18 | A scrawny nationalist in tattered jeans tried to grill him on independence for the benefit of the cameras and a woman in Capaldi 's fish caravan threatened to slap him round the face with one of her fish if he broke any election promises . |
| 19 | After four years in the explosives division , his management potential had been spotted and moves were made to launch him on a management development programme of rotation to broaden his experience . |
| 20 | What she would give to punch him on the nose , and flatten once and for all his insulting , devilish assumptions . |
| 21 | ‘ His condition was obvious and they must have decided to pull him on the way home . ’ |
| 22 | His brother Gavin frets him , and he has a longing for Gavin 's wife , together with a more urgent one for a teacher at the school , Alison Houston , who could be felt to lead him on a bit but does n't want to have a ‘ relationship ’ with him . |
| 23 | In that case the appellant who was , and is , serving a mandatory sentence of life imprisonment for murder , sought a declaration against the Parole Board and the Secretary of State that he was in effect entitled to know the reasons for refusing to release him on licence . |
| 24 | Marc really seemed to have him on the run . |
| 25 | ‘ I 'd want to club him on the head with a soulier de satin after two hours , ’ said Roger , in a harsh hurrying tone . |
| 26 | And he used to come to with his black horse and dray and I used to go to help him on a er on a Saturday morning , used to get to about perhaps nine or half past and I 'd go the rounds with him and all I used to do was to er take the peoples things that they 'd bought up the entry you see because they were all entries then . |
| 27 | I 'll tell you this , I 've always had to like him on the job . |
| 28 | That 's right , he usually sits up there , and I 'm , not going to leave him on his own till I know he 's alright . |
| 29 | And believe it or not we 've got to put him on a high chair to enable him to manage his instrument . ’ |
| 30 | When we indicated that we would like to clear him on the spot he was very reluctant to let us on board saying that the boat was " in a hell of a mess " ! |