Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [verb] him on " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ When he talks to you he makes you feel as if you are the only person in the entire world , ’ said one woman who met him on the campaign trail . |
| 2 | Alexander MacDondald of Boisdale , the Highland chief who met him on arrival , begged him to go back to Europe . |
| 3 | On his reappearance run when ooking backward , he led until falling seven out in the race won by Seagram , who meets him on 2lb better terms now and is thus entitled to start favourite . |
| 4 | On his reappearance run when ooking backward , he led until falling seven out in the race won by Seagram , who meets him on 2lb better terms now and is thus entitled to start favourite . |
| 5 | Since the Earl of Holland was ‘ a man of greater dignity than knowledge in the Lawes of the Forest , he was assisted at various times by judges of the common law courts who advised him on points of law . |
| 6 | Murray 's club-mate , Tom McKean , has set his store on the World Indoors but first he has a personal score to settle with his GB team-mate , David Sharpe , who pipped him on Saturday to make it 1-1 between them indoors this winter . |
| 7 | The script was handed to him by Casper Wrede , a director friend from the Royal Exchange who directed him on screen in One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich . |
| 8 | His enthusiasm for ‘ La Causa ’ , as he called it , spread to thousands of liberals who joined him on boycotts and on several dramatic marches to Sacramento . |
| 9 | Knights as well as nobles took prisoners at Poitiers , and the Black Prince granted lands , offices and annuities to many yeomen and bachelors who served him on his campaigns in Gascony between 1355 and 1357 . |
| 10 | Leith was having difficulty in equating this caring-sounding Naylor with the aggressive brute she had tangled with last night when Travis revealed , ‘ But it was my mother who rang him on Friday and , it seems , confessed — something I 'd been too preoccupied to have noticed — that she 'd been worried about me for some while . |
| 11 | Then , with a girl who loved him on the seat of his bike , he came to a bridge he was never to cross . |
| 12 | At the age of nineteen he was apprenticed to Isambard K. Brunel [ q.v. ] who employed him on the Thames tunnel and on some sections of the Great Western Railway . |
| 13 | Amos Clapham was leaning on the bar of the Beehive Inn in Gawthorpe one Sunday lunchtime in 1963 when in burst another local , Lewis Hartley , who slapped him on the back and remarked how tired he was looking . |
| 14 | Kenneth is greeted by an old friend who congratulates him on his centenary . |
| 15 | He had done no regular television work since appearing as Byron in the mid-Sixties , but a BBC producer who saw him on stage in No Sex , Please — We 're British realized that he was perfect for the lead role in a script submitted to him by a new TV comedy writer , Raymond Allen . |
| 16 | Det Chief Insp Barry Hill said : ‘ Anyone who knows Mr McEvoy or who saw him on Saturday May 23 is asked to ring Middlesbrough 326326 and ask for the Hartlepool incident room . ’ |
| 17 | The winner of five of his six races as a novice last season and probably an unlucky loser of the other , where he made mistakes at two consecutive hurdles , Morley Street was ridden with considerable discretion by Jimmy Frost , who brought him on the scene with a double handful between the last two flights , jumping to the front at the last , which he hit quite hard . |
| 18 | One day he slipped off alone , out of interest , to look up a local doctor , who took him on a tour of hospitals . |
| 19 | But the attitude of the civic authorities towards the public display of freaks was becoming increasingly severe , and Merrick was passed on to an Austrian or Italian manager , who took him on tour in Europe . |
| 20 | On this same trip he also called in on Tersteeg — who sowerscomplimented him on his progress — and on another painter , de Bock . |
| 21 | And he smiles as he talks of the best friend and rival who accompanied him on those weekend trips . |
| 22 | During the Civil War he was King 's man and was captured by Colonel Briggs , a Parliamentarian , who besieged him on Longholme , Windermere ( Belle Isle ) , whence he was rescued by his brother . |
| 23 | And he turned and moved across the dais and out of the studio , followed by his cohort of technicians and production assistants , who thumped him on the back and shouted their own compliments into his receptive ears . |
| 24 | Those who briefed him on the successful Los Angeles bid — Manchester retains the same American consultants — reported similar problems . |
| 25 | He duly appeared before three or four venerable gentlemen who lectured him on how to behave in the Far East . |
| 26 | He then slowly pulled out some bank notes and furtively handed them over to the large man , who patted him on the back and quickly got off at the next station . |
| 27 | It 's about a witch who chased him on his mare . |
| 28 | And for fatherless Havelock Wilson , sea captain 's grandson , it was his storytelling grandmother who set him on his life path , despite a mother who banned him from the harbour at Sunderland . |
| 29 | His luck — and he would have a lot of luck ( which he acknowledged generously and constantly ) — was to meet here the first of many teachers who set him on his way . |