Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] him on [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Almost twenty years alter the incident Coleridge was persuaded by Byron to publish the poem , and he then made the sensational claim that he had been able to remember 200 to 300 lines of perfect poetry when he had awoken from a drug-induced sleep , and was busy writing them down when he was interrupted by someone from Porlock demanding to see him on business . |
| 2 | Gloucester Crown Court heard that 24 year old Michael Jones headbutted and punched PC Kevin Frost as he tried to arrest him on suspicion of damaging a burger bar in Cheltenham . |
| 3 | When American writer Lester Bangs toured England with The Clash , Bernie Rhodes tried to set him on fire . |
| 4 | I 've really had to work hard to get where I got to and when I fight a black guy , I know that he 's had to do the same thing , I think : ‘ Well , he 's had it as hard as me ’ and little zest goes out of your punching , I just want to beat him on points . |
| 5 | I could n't wait to tell him on Monday . |
| 6 | A scrawny nationalist in tattered jeans tried to grill him on independence for the benefit of the cameras and a woman in Capaldi 's fish caravan threatened to slap him round the face with one of her fish if he broke any election promises . |
| 7 | In that case the appellant who was , and is , serving a mandatory sentence of life imprisonment for murder , sought a declaration against the Parole Board and the Secretary of State that he was in effect entitled to know the reasons for refusing to release him on licence . |
| 8 | Be entrusted to get him on time . |
| 9 | There must be plenty of clubs who 'd like to take him on loan ‘ til the end of the season … probably even in the Premiership ( Swindon ; - ) ) . |
| 10 | People kept coming to visit him on business . |
| 11 | The lifeboat crew administered first-aid to the fisherman and despite the problems they managed to get him on board their vessel and return him to shore . |
| 12 | She was fighting to turn him , fighting to bring him on top of her . |
| 13 | After nearly a month of political stalemate and gathering crisis opposition leader Zhelyu Zhelev was elected to replace him on Aug. 1 . |
| 14 | I had to take him on trust on that . |
| 15 | Well they reckoned he when he walked out so what was it er Francis wanted to see him on grass or something . |