Example sentences of "[to-vb] he on a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Would n't want to meet him on a dark night , ’ breathed Arthur , trying to make light of the incident . |
| 2 | After four years in the explosives division , his management potential had been spotted and moves were made to launch him on a management development programme of rotation to broaden his experience . |
| 3 | Constanze attempted to launch him on a career similar to his father 's — as a child-prodigy pianist — and on returning to Vienna he took composition lessons with Salieri , who proclaimed his ‘ a rare talent ’ . |
| 4 | His brother Gavin frets him , and he has a longing for Gavin 's wife , together with a more urgent one for a teacher at the school , Alison Houston , who could be felt to lead him on a bit but does n't want to have a ‘ relationship ’ with him . |
| 5 | Police were sent to arrest him on a charge of attempted murder , but in the ensuing melee the Rajah was shot dead . |
| 6 | And he used to come to with his black horse and dray and I used to go to help him on a er on a Saturday morning , used to get to about perhaps nine or half past and I 'd go the rounds with him and all I used to do was to er take the peoples things that they 'd bought up the entry you see because they were all entries then . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The other option for a Warlord is to put him on a wyvern or other big monster , but this is n't recommended . |
| 9 | One said it was pointless to put him on a waiting list , but letters from a grain merchant 's and from Littlewood 's Pools promised to file his application and interview him when he returned home . |
| 10 | And believe it or not we 've got to put him on a high chair to enable him to manage his instrument . ’ |
| 11 | Mr. Mendez wanted to put him on a coach and send him down there in style , but Russell kept backing off . |
| 12 | The answer is probably to run him on a left hand track where such antics would not cost him so much ground . |
| 13 | The doctor was concerned enough about him to trail him on a journey that Thomas then made to London Airport . |
| 14 | Despite some misgivings , he persuaded Tom Gray to accompany him on a wander to a nearby burial ground , Lying on top of a heap of bones , ‘ almost asking to be taken , was a femur . |
| 15 | Knowing her fear of the sea they had invariably travelled by air : to Switzerland for ski-ing , to the States , when she had got leave from Brentwoods to accompany him on a kind of working-holiday . |
| 16 | She had decided , quietly confident that it was safe to do so , not to accompany him on a tour of some Greek islands , and he had taken instead her of the cross-eyes etc . |
| 17 | Claudia lost her breath ; this was intolerable — not only had she been forced to accompany him on a wild chase after Garry Turner , but she was being subjected to what amounted to sexual harassment . |
| 18 | It suddenly crossed my mind that perhaps he thought I had come to see him on a professional level , that I was in need of spiritual help or whatever . |
| 19 | During his time as Party chairman , many constituency officers had been to see him on a similar errand . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | During the summer of 1977 she watched him play polo at Smith 's Lawn , Windsor and when , in February 1978 , he invited her to join him on a skiing party in Klosters , Switzerland there was much speculation that she might be the future queen of England . |
| 22 | I had only been at home for about ten days when a friend of mine asked me to join him on a journey to the East Indies . |
| 23 | King Magnus seized the ageing earls , Paul and Erlend , and compelled their sons — the rival cousins , Hakon and the brothers Erling and St Magnus — to join him on a foray against the Hebrides and north Wales . |
| 24 | He once broke off a phone call saying the police were waiting to take him on a tour of one of their up-to-date rape suites . |
| 25 | If the hon. Member for Leicester , South ( Mr. Marshall ) would like to accompany me in the new year , I should be only too happy to take him on a tour and show him just how much is happening outside Belfast as well as in it . |