Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] he on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Marc got up , face like a thunder-cloud , the look he gave Peter designed to shrivel him on the spot . |
| 2 | ERIC Butler , a charity worker , fought back with his swordstick when a mugger tried to strangle him on the London Underground in 1987 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It was former Dublin manager Kevin Heffernan who , McGilligan reckons , helped to put him on the road to success . |
| 5 | The landlord 's wife was expected to accompany him on the trip to Head Office . |
| 6 | Full-back Steve Mungall wants to join him on the score-sheet after bookmakers Stanley 's gave special odds on his scoring feats . |
| 7 | What she would give to punch him on the nose , and flatten once and for all his insulting , devilish assumptions . |
| 8 | ‘ His condition was obvious and they must have decided to pull him on the way home . ’ |
| 9 | Marc really seemed to have him on the run . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'd want to club him on the head with a soulier de satin after two hours , ’ said Roger , in a harsh hurrying tone . |
| 11 | I 'll tell you this , I 've always had to like him on the job . |
| 12 | 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 " ! |
| 13 | Touch wood , I 've never had to dope him on the lorry . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | I said it looks nice as it is and I do n't know if he will or not , I forgot to ask him on the phone . |
| 16 | Miguel 's going to ask him on the night — out of the blue . |
| 17 | He said that , during the 20-minute journey to the quarry at Furnace on Loch Fyne , a lit cigarette had been used to burn him on the back of the neck , he had been struck constantly , and as the car travelled at speeds up to 70mph , the man beside him had opened the door and told him to take his chances and jump . |
| 18 | Simple as sneezing to put him on the defensive . |
| 19 | You would n't mind if he married your daughter , but you would n't want to put him on the front page . |
| 20 | We arranged to meet him on the early train at Skipton the next day and off he went to his bog . |
| 21 | Much to his surprise , he found Burn was already staying there but ‘ laid up with a severe illness ’ , so he arranged to meet him on the following Monday . |
| 22 | And they spat on him , and took the reed and began to beat him on the head , and after they had mocked him they took his robe off and put his garments on them and led him away to be , to crucify him . |
| 23 | This appears to put him on the right side of the new rulers , even if Steaua were answerable to one of Ceausescu 's brothers . |
| 24 | Mark Kiff went to see him on the day he took his test . |
| 25 | Bernice went to slap him on the back . |
| 26 | Within minutes , the Austrian goalkeeper , Franz Wohlfahrt , was being pelted with missiles , including 5ft iron bars torn from the perimeter fence , one of which appeared to hit him on the back . |
| 27 | When the train drew into York station , bringing John back from his exile , it was not Nora but Sarah who waited to greet him on the platform . |
| 28 | Faustus 's fate is also made clearer by the addition of a scene before the final chorus where the scholars come to visit him on the morning after his final hour and find his body torn in pieces ( V , iii , 1–19 ) . |
| 29 | No doubt you wish to pat him on the head for this . |
| 30 | More traumatic still , James Prior , with the greatest reluctance , was forced to move from Employment to the exile of Northern Ireland , even though Mrs Thatcher had to keep him on the Cabinet 's main economic forum , the E Committee . |