Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] him on [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since then , Dr Richardson has met him on many occasions , and he conveyed the university 's invitation to the Dalai Lama . |
| 2 | Despite bad publicity surrounding child abuse allegations which has dogged him on previous stops in Thailand , Singapore and Taiwan , Jackson 's Japanese fans made clear that , for them , their idol could do no wrong . |
| 3 | She had stood naked in front of him in the bedroom , tried to kiss him on another occasion and put her arms round him . |
| 4 | Harris , of Shieldhall Road , West Drumoyne , Glasgow , had been found guilty of assaulting Mr Brown and attempting to murder him on 18 February last year in Shieldhall Road . |
| 5 | Anthony McDonald , 29 , of Deanston Road , Shawlands , Glasgow , admitted wearing a mask and presenting an axe at an employee of the Bank of Scotland , Kilmarnock Road , Glasgow , and attempting to rob him on 20 January . |
| 6 | Rising stars like Phil Tufnell , Chris Lewis and Graeme Hick have never shared a dressing room with him purely as a team-mate , getting to know him on equal terms . |
| 7 | It was just basically , one of those things , and Abbey paid out , because they said we would have done it , we would have accepted him on this anyway . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | None of these were things that had been known to occupy him on other mornings . |
| 10 | Feared as he was , the townsfolk had gathered to oppose him on several occasions , once when he affronted their God-fearing attitudes by ordering his men to rip the timber fan-faulting from the local church to use in the construction of Lambourn Palace . |
| 11 | He had to try three of the numbers which the Substitute had given him on identical slips of paper , each of which had ‘ after eight-thirty ’ written in small , neat writing across the bottom . |
| 12 | He was a good-looking man in his late thirties , and Fran had met him on several occasions but had never liked him , finding something faintly repugnant about the way he stood on the outside of life looking in , searching for anything unsavoury . |
| 13 | Wright , who lent him money that he never repaid , continued to consult him on technical matters after he left Derby ; Burdett in turn seems to have procured purchasers for some of Wright 's pictures , including Washington Shirley , fifth Earl Ferrers [ q.v. ] , and Catherine the Great . |
| 14 | The element of continuity with previous Unity campaigns was thus preserved and the Cripps Memorandum received support from basically the same groups and individuals who had supported him on previous occasions . |
| 15 | His sober , professional and dependable manner , as much as his editorial position , had put him on good terms with most managing directors of most record companies , but his contacts with Branson — while always cordial — had been few . |
| 16 | Fate had branded him on that October night as a gangster and a street-fighter . |
| 17 | ‘ I had to take him on more or less from the first . |
| 18 | Van Gelder also knew it , Denholm had reassured him on that point . |
| 19 | In testimony to a House subcommittee in late April and early May , DuBois L. Gilliam , a former HUD official currently serving a prison sentence for manipulating housing grants , alleged that former HUD Secretary Samuel R. Pierce had ordered him on several occasions to award HUD grants on political considerations . |
| 20 | Earlier he had visited the American Consulate , where an attractive and sympathetic fellow countrywoman from North Carolina had advised him on all the sad yet necessary procedures consequent upon the death of an American national in Britain , and acquainted him with the costs of the transatlantic conveyancing of corpses . |
| 21 | Mr Mohamed Al Fayed had advised him on various matters . |
| 22 | Thames Water Utilities wanted to put him on light duties . |
| 23 | Matchsticks would have been the last one at the Pessarane Behesht camp he would have chosen to accompany him on this mission . |