Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] he on " in BNC.
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| 1 | A bit o' glass 'ad caught him on the fore'ead , but otherwise we 'ad n't a scratch to show for it between us . |
| 2 | The Redcar lifeboat was alerted and when they tried bring him on board , the man , in his mid-30s , refused point blank to be rescued . |
| 3 | The Redcar lifeboat was alerted and when they tried bring him on board , the man , in his mid-thirties , refused point blank to be rescued . |
| 4 | Marc got up , face like a thunder-cloud , the look he gave Peter designed to shrivel him on the spot . |
| 5 | ERIC Butler , a charity worker , fought back with his swordstick when a mugger tried to strangle him on the London Underground in 1987 . |
| 6 | She walked two paces backwards to the bed , only in her shirt , and tried to pull him on her as she fell . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | When American writer Lester Bangs toured England with The Clash , Bernie Rhodes tried to set him on fire . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It was former Dublin manager Kevin Heffernan who , McGilligan reckons , helped to put him on the road to success . |
| 11 | She had stood naked in front of him in the bedroom , tried to kiss him on another occasion and put her arms round him . |
| 12 | BARNET chairman Stan Flashman has vowed he will ban any fans caught criticising him on the terraces . |
| 13 | So several of us tried standing him on his head and quickly reversing him . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | She had the fleeting impression that she 'd caught him on the raw . |
| 16 | ‘ Have you not heard of Resenence Jeopardy ? ’ she 'd asked him on the first day of their acquaintance . |
| 17 | Marc really seemed to have him on the run . |
| 18 | I said it looks nice as it is and I do n't know if he will or not , I forgot to ask him on the phone . |
| 19 | We arranged to meet him on the early train at Skipton the next day and off he went to his bog . |
| 20 | Much to his surprise , he found Burn was already staying there but ‘ laid up with a severe illness ’ , so he arranged to meet him on the following Monday . |
| 21 | I threatened to put him on a discipline charge because whenever the drunks were turning out , you 'd find him in the station writing some trivial bike without a light . |
| 22 | And they spat on him , and took the reed and began to beat him on the head , and after they had mocked him they took his robe off and put his garments on them and led him away to be , to crucify him . |
| 23 | But in the end they and the Russians decided to install him on his fathers throne ; They reasoned that the could always be replaced if he did not do as was required . |
| 24 | But as they started to grill him on such matters as his attitude to South Africa and Northern Ireland , it was his actions , not his befuddled replies , which riveted the panel 's attention . |
| 25 | Mark Kiff went to see him on the day he took his test . |
| 26 | His father , unable to speak the words of farewell , kept patting him on the back , his face a ruin . |
| 27 | Bernice went to slap him on the back . |
| 28 | The lifeboat crew administered first-aid to the fisherman and despite the problems they managed to get him on board their vessel and return him to shore . |
| 29 | Within minutes , the Austrian goalkeeper , Franz Wohlfahrt , was being pelted with missiles , including 5ft iron bars torn from the perimeter fence , one of which appeared to hit him on the back . |
| 30 | They did repeat the rush goal from every angle and it DID hit him on the head … more later … they also discussed the penalty and concluded that was a joke . |