Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] him [adv] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Botham had the first six wickets before Marshall and Baptiste held him up for while , Marshall being lucky not to be on the wrong end of a legendary catch when Don Topley , a groundstaff boy who went on to play for Essex , brilliantly caught him one-handed on the square leg boundary , only to put one foot over the rope . |
| 2 | His 69 Test wickets cost 38.72 each , and against England he took 28 wickets at 43 — expensive , but good enough to put him high on the list of all-rounders . |
| 3 | A moment ago , the Home Secretary said that every applicant for asylum would have the right to go to an appeal tribunal , and his hon. Friend the Member for Lancaster ( Dame E. Kellett-Bowman ) rightly picked him up on the point . |
| 4 | so we just dosed him up on Calpol |
| 5 | He murmured something to the effect that youth must be served , ‘ John Donne ’ , but the interviewer did not take him up on his quotation . |
| 6 | Interest to see how he plays David Lawrence when he gets his he 'll be , he can just slash him away on the off side . |
| 7 | An old servant , bald as a badger , yellow-faced and wizened , bustled towards us with all the speed of a snail ; he mumbled apologies in French but Ralemberg just tapped him gently on the shoulder and told him not to worry . |
| 8 | ‘ And no matter what people on the outside might have felt the selectors could not pick him purely on his form for Somerset . ’ |
| 9 | Mark … the jockey that rode him to victory at Cheltenham has retired from the saddle but still rides him out on the gallops and is now helping to tarin him |
| 10 | Although he agreed , it was obviously difficult for Adam to let go of the reins , as Lissa discovered when she arrived at Lynx some time later to find him still on the premises . |
| 11 | Maltote slumped down on the stool , his long sword catching him between the legs and nearly tipping him over on his face . |
| 12 | Then she stretched up to kiss him warmly on the lips . |
| 13 | Jezrael lashed a hand out to punch him hard on the jaw . |
| 14 | And we , we just stood aside from that and said to the employer , look here , if you do n't bring him back on Monday , erm I 'm afraid there 'll be nobody here tomorrow right . |
| 15 | He says the lap-type seatbelt did n't restrain him properly on impact . |
| 16 | One of them was a real wally , so the others did n't let him in on their plan . |
| 17 | A two-control version ( the FAA type certificate still describes rudder pedals as an ‘ optional extra ’ ) it has enabled one-time helicopter pilot Dick Nesbitt-Dufort , after a car accident some years ago left him permanently on crutches , to become a well-known and successful handicap air racing competitor and enthusiastic visitor to many foreign fly-ins . |
| 18 | ‘ Mussed ’ is a word so outmoded I 'm surprised the God of Media did n't strike him down on the instant with a thunderbolt . |
| 19 | And he can go on avoiding him forever on the grounds that he was the one who split the title . |
| 20 | I was relieved to find my protege still motionless underneath his breeze block , so I picked him up , showed him the food and then laid him back on a fresh bed made from the local evening paper . |
| 21 | While he was there he learnt to fly with the University Air Squadron and was in despair when , on the outbreak of war , the RAF initially turned him down on medical grounds . |
| 22 | The village doctor was one of the house guests ; he and Andy 's father hold the boy up , letting water drain from his mouth , then lay him down on a coat on the snow . |
| 23 | On another occasion Ricky knocked Minton out on the platform of the Underground , afterwards propping him up on a bench until he recovered sufficiently to be walked home . |
| 24 | quite right , the statistics he was actually talking about , and somebody actually pulled him up on th , up on this and said , okay you 're talking about the number of firms who went to the wall , but what about new firms being created ? |