Example sentences of "[vb pp] him on [pos pn] " in BNC.

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1 Sooner than he had expected , Harry found himself back in Swindon Central Library , this time perusing the national newspapers for 2 June 1987 in the hope of gleaning from them some clue as to what had eluded him on his visit to Tyler 's Hard .
2 ‘ Nearly a fortnight ’ , he complained , was spent in Sydney organising his journey to the other side of the Liverpool Range — that remote and tantalising region that had eluded him on his first visit to Yarrundi because he had had to return to his wife in Hobart .
3 Maybe , if she could have accepted him on his terms …
4 Slater had seen him on his BMW bike , or just getting off it .
5 And to have met him on her own terms , or by accident , would have been one thing , and a delight , but to look as though she were some silly teenager following an idol … well , that was entirely another .
6 He had met him on his way to the stables , and they stood in a yard which was busy with blacksmiths and farriers .
7 Li Shai Tung stood , leaning heavily upon the silver-headed cane he had come to use so often these days ; the cane with the dragon 's head Han Ch'in had bought him on his fiftieth birthday .
8 Gilmour Thom , 51 , an institutional salesman with Bell Lawrie White , told the court that after Mackie had briefed him on his meeting with Mr Runciman , he had sold about 1.5 million Shanks & McEwan shares at prices ranging from 305p to 318p .
9 Henry knew nothing about the new papal anathemas of which Anselm was the bearer , and he immediately required him first to renew the homage which he had done to Rufus , and then to consecrate his chancellor William Giffard to the bishopric of Winchester , with which he had invested him on his coronation day .
10 Kohl , in eastern Germany for the first time since the December 1990 general election , was jeered and pelted with eggs by several hundred protesters on April 7 in Erfurt ( where enthusiastic crowds of over 100,000 had greeted him on his last visit in February 1990 — see p. 37260 ) .
11 ‘ A little thing could have set him on his way any time these past three years , and it would have had the same ending . ’
12 Unaware that a fly has accompanied him on his maiden voyage , he turns into a sex-obsessed , sugar-addicted mutant .
13 TOKS AKPATA is a man whose love of the game and whose own sad injury have spurred him on his one-man campaign to make the rugby pitch a safer place .
14 His mother had waved him on his way , not his father .
15 He had questioned him on his knowledge of Reading , and his whereabouts on 22 June .
16 That 's why they 've sent him on his own . ’
17 He really should have had the sense to bring his emergency bag and the roll of towelling with him , but Rose 's terrified urgency had sent him on his way with all speed .
18 They had congratulated him on his ingenuity .
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