Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] him on [pron] " in BNC.
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1 | I mean I know through the summer holidays that I 've really got to get to work with him on his maths , likewise I know I 've got a lot of work to do myself for |
2 | How she had looked at him on their wedding day — as if he were a god ! |
3 | Jenna stormed , brushing past him on her way to the door . |
4 | Also included is an inkstand presented to him on his wedding by the Prince and Princess of Wales est. £3–5,000 ( $5–8,500 ) . |
5 | Lack of peak fitness had told against him on his first run of the 1989–90 season when pitched in against Desert Orchid and other top chasers in the King George VI Rank Chase at Kempton Park on Boxing Day . |
6 | Well I suppose yeah cos they could set on him on his own |
7 | The primary source for ‘ Kubla Khan ’ is the book Purchas his Pilgrimage ( 1614 ) which Coleridge had evidently brought with him on his Culbone visit — borrowed perhaps from the bookroom or from the well stocked library at Alfoxden — and which describes how ‘ In Xanada did Cublai Can build a stately Pallace . ’ |
8 | An infant who damages another by carelessly running into him on his bicycle is liable just as a person of full age would be . |
9 | Despite his human limitations he managed to retrieve the underwater thorn which would give immortality , although it was stolen from him on his journey back to Uruk by a serpent . |
10 | ‘ The Doctor ’ , as the old man referred to him on her subsequent visits alone , ‘ the Doctor said as 'ow ‘ e were all for veg , like Mr Chadwick . ’ |
11 | I go and sit beside him on his boxes and feel much the same as he does . |
12 | ‘ I can cope with him on my own now . |
13 | But I I do n't know , he did n't say and I was n't going to argue with him on it . |
14 | At the peak of the agitation more than 12,000 troops were stationed in the disturbed regions of the Midlands and the North — more soldiers than Wellington took with him on his first expedition to Portugal in 1808 in the Peninsular War . |
15 | All he took with him on his voyage was a spare pair of shoes , a sandwich and a 1992 sports diary with a map of the world , the court heard . |
16 | So was ‘ The Tinker 's Grace ’ , purporting to be Bunyan 's prison musings on Divine Grace , and so was Pedro of Portugal 's rapt and bizarre declaration of love , in 1356 , for the embalmed corpse of his murdered wife , Iñez de Castro , who swayed beside him on his travels , leather-brown and skeletal , crowned with lace and gold circlet , hung about with chains of diamonds and pearls , her bone-fingers fantastically ringed . |
17 | His most regular companions were artists , several of whom , such as Walter Crane , Sir George Frampton [ qq.v. ] , and Robert Anning Bell collaborated with him on his buildings . |
18 | While it 's true that nobody does any work in The Possessed except delivering babies , and true also that Stepan Verkhovensky flowers into a veritable presiding genius of sloth in the guise of footling bustle , nevertheless the reader 's heart is not with Mrs Stavrogin , Stepan 's patroness , when she hisses at him on his deathbed ‘ you futile , futile , ignoble , chickenhearted , always , always futile man ’ . |
19 | I said to him on what grounds did you want to put her in the unit . |
20 | And once when I was very little I sat with him on his horse-drawn dray at the station with him in his bowler hat . |
21 | The tributes paid to him on his retirement were warm and heartfelt . |
22 | Money paid to a Travel Agent is held by him on your behalf until your booking is fully confirmed when it is then held for Amsterdam Travel Service Limited . |