Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] him on " in BNC.
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| 1 | The charge was such an obvious frame-up that he had to ask himself if there had ever been any intention to try him on it . |
| 2 | Smith has been dismissed as ‘ presence of mind Smith ’ from his alleged remark on returning without his companion from a disastrous outing on the river : ‘ If I had not with great presence of mind hit him on the head with a boathook both would have been drowned , ’ but the story comes from Reminiscences of Oxford ( 1st edn. 1900 ) by William Tuckwell , who in his second edition ( 1907 ) consigned it to oblivion ; moreover , there was no charge of murder . |
| 3 | Mr Younger , 68 , urged anyone interested in joining the club to contact him on ( 0284 ) 700433 . |
| 4 | The department sent him on an Assertive Course . |
| 5 | Almost a year after his ‘ There 's Nothing Like This ’ hit single and reactivated album put him on first-name terms with the British public , Omar Lye-Kook is still based in north London , operating out of his father 's tiny Kongo Dance offices and recording down the road in Willesden . |
| 6 | The Association honoured him on his retirement with the award of a medal of honour and elected him as a Vice-President The following year he was made an OBE for his lifelong work for the deaf . |
| 7 | Pascoe had now told the police what he had told her , about a fierce row with MacQuillan on Thursday and an attempt to confront him on Friday . |
| 8 | Some treated Charles Manson as a hero , and the underground newspaper , the Los Angeles Free Press allowed Manson to write a column for them while he was in jail ; another , called Tuesday 's Child depicted him on a cross . |
| 9 | On his journey , fearful and probably suffering from reactionary depression , he slept a night under a broom bush , where he dreamed that an angel touched him on the shoulder and bade him rise and eat . |
| 10 | Corsie 's great escape keeps him on title trail |
| 11 | Her arm caught in the mesh and her fist hit him on the side of the head . |
| 12 | Again , Brian Harley hit a less-than-perfect drive , but his two-iron across the angle of the dogleg put him on the front edge of the green . |
| 13 | He had a council to advise him on these policy decisions , and he and his council recognized the great similarity between the powers of the assembly and those of the House of Commons in passing laws and imposing new taxes . |
| 14 | The only mishap was that in forcing himself through the gap , he nudged the twig and the falling window struck him on the head . |
| 15 | EXPLORER Gerald Kingsland , 62 — who inspired the film Castaway — has had scores of replies to an ad for a girl to join him on an island . |
| 16 | This was not the moment to lecture him on the facts of hospital life , so I said briefly , ‘ Patients prefer two to one , ’ and asked if he had explained his position to Sister . |
| 17 | Owen 's reaction touched him on a sore spot ; and it was made all the sorer by an angry feeling inside him that there had indeed been incompetence , Egyptian incompetence , that he , Mahmoud , was ultimately responsible for it — and that there was absolutely nothing that he could in practice do about it . |
| 18 | Rain congratulated him on finding the proof . |
| 19 | After a championship victory earlier in the year , at which circuit did his British fans risk their safety to mob him on the track ? |
| 20 | The vet checked Sam over and said all was well , and as it was a first fit there was no need to start him on the tablets , yet . |
| 21 | The writer could have selected a sequence such as His opponent congratulates him on his victory or He is congratulated on his victory by his opponent . |
| 22 | ‘ We 're always on the look-out for stories of good performance and good practice somewhere in the group , ’ says Jones , who writes all the copy in a job taking him on a growing number of foreign assignments . |
| 23 | These two seemed friendly enough , but their questions about Sweetheart put him on the defensive . |
| 24 | However , scarcely was the ink dry on the paper when , at the end of December 1981 , the Secretary of State announced in the House of Commons that , ‘ with the agreement of the local authority associations and after consultation with other interested parties ’ , he had decided to establish a new body to advise him on the distribution of the advanced further education pool and on academic provision in local authority institutions of higher education . |
| 25 | It was a special gift from a famous actor in California who had tried to persuade Sweetheart to join him on a luxury tour of Europe . |
| 26 | Both safely negotiated the treacherous short 15th hole and Faldo 's putter rescued him on the 18th green . |
| 27 | Our police are so busy trying to catch the culprits , but then I read in the Press last week of a young man causing £60,000 of damage by graffiti and getting off free because it would be a waste of public money to put him on probation . |
| 28 | The detectives who were not detectives after all stepped forward to meet him , one of them shaking hands , the other slapping him on the back . |
| 29 | He strenuously denied having committed any offence , however , and the government eventually decided that there was insufficient evidence to indict him on espionage charges . |
| 30 | Crowley 's wife divorced him on grounds of admitted adultery in 1910 . |