Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] him on [art] " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 7 | It was former Dublin manager Kevin Heffernan who , McGilligan reckons , helped to put him on the road to success . |
| 8 | The landlord 's wife was expected to accompany him on the trip to Head Office . |
| 9 | BARNET chairman Stan Flashman has vowed he will ban any fans caught criticising him on the terraces . |
| 10 | The law of Docherty 's life has taken him on a rollercoaster through football management . |
| 11 | Now the Supreme Court has put him on the spot . |
| 12 | Since joining BP as a petroleum engineer in 1974 , his career has kept him on the move . |
| 13 | Full-back Steve Mungall wants to join him on the score-sheet after bookmakers Stanley 's gave special odds on his scoring feats . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | What she would give to punch him on the nose , and flatten once and for all his insulting , devilish assumptions . |
| 16 | ‘ His condition was obvious and they must have decided to pull him on the way home . ’ |
| 17 | She had the fleeting impression that she 'd caught him on the raw . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | ‘ Have you not heard of Resenence Jeopardy ? ’ she 'd asked him on the first day of their acquaintance . |
| 20 | Marc really seemed to have him on the run . |
| 21 | Jim Richards describes spotting him on the terrace of Shepheard 's Hotel , Cairo . |
| 22 | ‘ I 'd want to club him on the head with a soulier de satin after two hours , ’ said Roger , in a harsh hurrying tone . |
| 23 | They had almost stopped resuscitating him on the grounds that the doctor had n't remembered his diagnosis . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | I 'll tell you this , I 've always had to like him on the job . |
| 26 | And believe it or not we 've got to put him on a high chair to enable him to manage his instrument . ’ |
| 27 | When we indicated that we would like to clear him on the spot he was very reluctant to let us on board saying that the boat was " in a hell of a mess " ! |
| 28 | Touch wood , I 've never had to dope him on the lorry . |
| 29 | At the last meeting of the committee I did in fact congratulate the director and his staff for the way in which community care had been implemented current year and I 'd certainly like to congratulate him on the way he 's presented er proposals for next year . |
| 30 | 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 . |