Example sentences of "[verb] him [adv prt] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | We try and slip him in on the sly when we think we 've got them hooked . |
| 2 | She told him about the latest developments from Zurich while dressing the wound , filling him in on the backgrounds of Hendrique and Milchan as well as relaying Philpott 's instructions . |
| 3 | It is not known who gave him the letter but it was to set him off on the road to fame and fortune . |
| 4 | Jack filled him in on the scanty information they had already obtained . |
| 5 | It was nearly forty years since the history master had bawled him out on the pavement over there , in front of the House of Commons . |
| 6 | A return to five furlongs should see him back on the winning path . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'm going to the bathroom , ’ said Philip , putting the stupid lamp that his Mum had bought him back on the window-sill . |
| 8 | Yet for a short time his arrival at Oxford threw him back on the hunkers of his class and family . |
| 9 | Long periods of enforced solitude as a semi-invalid threw him back on the resources of his own imagination , and after reading Hindoo Holiday , by J. R. Ackerley [ q.v. ] , |
| 10 | He referred to the policy of separate development as ‘ apart-hate ’ in his first few letters , until somebody must have clued him in on the correct spelling . |
| 11 | He began to speak out loud over the sound of the copious running water ; he congratulated himself for not crying in public , he congratulated himself for not getting hurt , for not letting himself be assaulted on the way home , for not letting anyone corner him or get him down on the floor or up against a wall but for keeping walking instead . |
| 12 | When Swan heard that Harvey was at the Ministry of Transport , he tried to draw him out on the subject of motorways in Warwickshire , but the junior Minister in charge of roads said that this was not the time or place to discuss the subject . |
| 13 | And Steve obediently went off , taking with him a jar of Marmite in a garden trowel as a substitute for coal in a shovel , and he stood out there on the front porch in the cold listening to the silence and looking at the stars , waiting for them to let him in on the last stroke of Big Ben on the radio : a faint , feeble echo of some once meaningful ritual , though what it had meant or now could mean nobody there knew or had ever known . |
| 14 | Anyway , I do know they hung Him up on the cross so it did n't do Him a lot of good . |
| 15 | She jumped up and thrust him down on the seat , holding his shoulders . |
| 16 | When I had stretched him out on the floor , I stood over him . |
| 17 | Depending on this year 's crop of foals , Jonadab was hoping to send him out on the road in the following spring . |
| 18 | McDonald has some well known musicians , such as Pino Palladino and Benmont Tench , helping him out on the disc , but even their presence fails to add the bit of gloss that is evidently lacking . |
| 19 | He did not put up any resistance when they flung him down on the rainswept slabs , and tied his ankles with a thick cord . |
| 20 | Mark … the jockey that rode him to victory at Cheltenham has retired from the saddle but still rides him out on the gallops and is now helping to tarin him |
| 21 | She held out her hand with deliberate provocation and , drawing him down on the edge of the bed beside her , she gave a little laugh which came from deep in her throat . |
| 22 | Despite his strange dealings in the transfer market up to now , I 'm still one of the pro-Wilko group , and I 'm not going to start slagging him off on the basis of rumours about what he might conceivably do . |
| 23 | Half-blinded by blood from his cuts , he put the plane into a dive and somehow managed to land the right side up — despite the appearance of a third enemy plane which tried to polish him off on the way down . |
| 24 | But dear Caroline 's got an almighty hangover , sick as a dog , so I brought him over on the back of the bike to see it again . |
| 25 | Could it be that someone took him up on the extravagant wagers he offered constantly during the election and that he 's been forced to three ball his monkey suit to meet his gambling debts ? and then there was the letter in Saturday 's Darlington and Stockton Times from stop-at-home Nick ThorneWallis , Labour chairman of Darlington council 's transport committee . |
| 26 | How much would Donald need to get him back on the road ? |
| 27 | Well you can pick him up on the way then could n't you ? |
| 28 | Paul 's in a meeting , but she 's going to try and pick him up on the way , or leave a note for him to follow on . |
| 29 | He looked around for someone who would fill him in on the gossip . |
| 30 | ‘ T is true that releasing Stephen will put him back on the throne , but our army can do nothing without my Lord of Gloucester at its head . |