Example sentences of "[prep] him [adv] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | If Marcus was sitting on his bed or walking about the room or looking out of the window , Ludens would sit near him either on a chair or else on the floor his knees up , his back against the wall . |
| 2 | She was breathless when she did catch up with him outside on the front doorstep . |
| 3 | Depression audiences were given a hero who first fights in the World War and then finds it difficult to settle back into a factory job ; this innocent man is then twice sentenced to a chain-gang , the second arrest coming after a period during which he had succeeded as a respectable businessman ; the film ends with him still on the run and having now to depend on crime to keep himself alive . |
| 4 | Ever been with him abroad on his business |
| 5 | The matter came before him again on 2 July . |
| 6 | In that race , he defeated Romany King , runner-up to him again on Saturday at Aintree . |
| 7 | Because I I I 've said this to him before on on the floor of the house , that is what we are required to do in the insurance brokers registration council for all insurance broking firms , that is what parliament required in the insurance brokers registration act and it is not an onerous requirement on firms , it is not excessively expensive so it would meet I believe , any cost compliance test er that erm the er the D T I might wish to insist be carried out . |
| 8 | So they risked all , and late one night when she heard a low whistle she rose from her straw pallet in the lower scullery and crept out of the house ; and when Tristram had climbed over the wall , she gave herself to him there on the midnight grass with the summer moon blazing down through the trees and the scent of honey wafting up from the silent hives . |
| 9 | Tim broke the news to him late on Tuesday afternoon in a phone call from the Godwins ' Northamptonshire home . |
| 10 | If we assumed that Wetherby came across him unexpectedly on the premises , and turned away to give the alarm , how does that fit with the cheese and the bloodstains ? |
| 11 | Looking down at him there on my English grass , under my English sun , I knew he was pretending a tie-dyed sky , glass sea , breeze in a fast boat . |