Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] him on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Forsyth 's support for student loans has ensured little support for him on the campus but , that apart , the student vote seems to be as divided as it is in the wider constituency . |
| 2 | Yet apart from the story of his binding , a long account of the finding of a wife for him , for the bulk of which he is off stage , and a story about him on his death-bed which is primarily about his sons , Jacob and Esau , there is but one chapter devoted to him ( ch. |
| 3 | She left a cup of tea for him on his bedside table and went into the kitchen to prepare the evening meal . |
| 4 | Half seriously , half as a joke he had asked her to write a short piece for him on what she had termed in conversation with him ‘ wasted women ’ . |
| 5 | We had enough of Blobby yesterday , without any mention of him on the programme again . |
| 6 | There 's a statue of him on the table too . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ To Your Glory , and the Glory of Him on Earth … ’ |
| 8 | When he grew up there would always be work for him on the estate . |
| 9 | My uncle managed to find work for him on one of the nearby farms and the family moved in with him . |
| 10 | Wills used to invite four of his eight employees to lunch with him on alternate Sundays . |
| 11 | Over the next few days I was in touch by letter and by phone with Eliot , and finally it was arranged , in a note dated 9 May , that I should lunch with him on Thursday 19 May , which , as he carefully specified , was Ascension Day . |
| 12 | and had a right chat with him on the way but , laugh . |
| 13 | The hon. Gentleman is absolutely right to say that the schemes have been highly successful , but I take issue with him on his assertion that the matter should be taken out of the hands of the district council and placed in the hands of the Scottish Office . |
| 14 | Less the arm the figure is complete in itself , but it was part of a larger whole : a four-horse team , the charioteer in the car holding the reins , possibly the dedicator as a warrior behind him on the ground or mounting , probably a groom at the horses ' heads ( a small-scale arm was found , as well as scraps of the horses ' legs and tails ) . |
| 15 | ‘ Talking of Puddephat , there 's an article about him on page five , ’ Bridget said . |
| 16 | Faldo had to wait until the ‘ 89 Masters before he could catch up with Lyle and maybe the picture of him on the 11th green , the second hole of a sudden-death play-off with Scott Hoch , encapsulates Europe 's men in the majors in the Eighties . |
| 17 | There was a lovely picture of him on telly last night peering woefully over the fence dressed in snazzy suit . |
| 18 | Er , he , there was a pic there was a picture of him on the report in the paper and he was sitting in his convertible Morris Minor . |
| 19 | I mean she had a picture of him on the headstone and oh , thought she went over the top I 'm afraid and she get loads of support because then that Clifford was very popular and er his was |
| 20 | Possibly there was some breakdown of control when he entered London , which may well have contributed to a reaction against him on the part of the citizens . |
| 21 | Task Force Atlantic also attacked and seized the main military prison , freeing some 48 prisoners who had been arrested by Gen Noriega after the abortive coup against him on October 3 . |
| 22 | The logical conclusion of all this is that there can no longer be a justification for the massive nuclear arsenals held by both sides , that only the absolute minimum of nuclear defence is required and that , because President Yeltsin , too , now has his finger on the nuclear button , we should now be doing business with him on this issue as on so many others . |
| 23 | Lin Foh hesitated , frowned , then glanced back at the two young Foreign Office men ; they were hardly protection for the Colonel ; rather , were deliberately overt presences with him , keeping an eye on him on the instruction of the Foreign Secretary . |
| 24 | As she was saying good-bye to him on the last day , she knew that they would n't see each other again for a long time . |
| 25 | An article by him on IT security appears on the front page of this issue . |
| 26 | Dana had wanted to take his old bike with him on the ship back to the States . |
| 27 | He could not live sanely , wholly , without her ; it was not enough to go to the playhouse , watch her tempting presence above him on the stage , without the least hope of possessing it . |
| 28 | And that might be my only , you know , substantive interaction with him on that day . |
| 29 | But I was n't struck by any thunderbolts or lightning flashes , and when talking about the dance afterwards in the Met Office I merely remarked to the officer on duty that I 'd met a very nice corporal and he 'd asked me to go to the Station cinema with him on Saturday . |
| 30 | For example , when sending a document to Fred on July 14 , 1993 , you may want to check progress with him on July 28 , 1993 . |