Example sentences of "[prep] him on the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He slapped a stone down , in the corner nearest him on the right . |
| 2 | She turned towards him on the pew and put her hands up and caught his collar . |
| 3 | A fist flew towards him on the screen , filled it as it made apparent impact and then vanished away . |
| 4 | The theory would appear to be borne out by his subsequent record : only one further final appearance , at Los Angeles , and eight losses to players ranked below him on the computer . |
| 5 | Then , below him on the rubble , he made out Yussuf 's motionless body . |
| 6 | In front of him on the desk lay what looked improbably like a holiday brochure . |
| 7 | ‘ One of 'em took a photo of him on the footplate of ‘ The Cornishman ’ . |
| 8 | Anthony Quinn 's Mexican/Irish temper got the better of him on the day he married Katherine De Mille , daughter of the director Cecil B De Mille . |
| 9 | We had enough of Blobby yesterday , without any mention of him on the programme again . |
| 10 | I mean she had a picture of him on the headstone and oh , thought she went over the top I 'm afraid and she get loads of support because then that Clifford was very popular and er his was |
| 11 | To win , you must throw your opponent , ideally on his back ; or dispose of him on the ground with an armlock , strangle or 30 second hold . |
| 12 | Er , he , there was a pic there was a picture of him on the report in the paper and he was sitting in his convertible Morris Minor . |
| 13 | There 's a statue of him on the table too . ’ |
| 14 | He saw ahead of him the bowed back of Byrkin , hunched head in hands with an empty bowl in front of him on the table . |
| 15 | Josh had the newspaper spread out in front of him on the table , but Ruth felt sure that he had not been reading it ; she doubted if he even knew it was there . |
| 16 | Mr Parkinson was delayed by a dense bank of fog ahead of him on the line — Nicholas Ridley , the Trade and Industry Secretary , making his statement about the Barlow Clowes affair . |
| 17 | Right so , you know , there are those who would teach that Jesus he would die for our sins and he 's forgiven us sins , but only those who come to him , Jesus died for the sin of the whole world , for every man , woman , boy and girl that has ever lived or ever will live , he died for the sin of the whole world , not just for those even who lived after his death , that 's why it talks about in the Old Testament people like Abraham looking for that day , and so Jesus who in , when he died , because he 's eternal , so we 've got the problems with time , God has n't got problems with time , he 's eternal and so his sacrifice , the sacrifice of him on the cross was effective for Abraham as it is for you , it was as effective for David as it was for Paul otherwise Abraham would never of had his sins forgiven because what happened with all the sacrifice with all the little lambs that were killed and all the goats and all the rest they only acted as a covering for sin , did n't take them away , it covered them , what for , until the moment when Jesus would come and would take those sins away and so when you think of David 's sin , his adultery and his murder , how does he get forgiven for that because Jesus died from the cross and he takes upon himself David 's sin and he takes upon him Abraham 's sin and Noah 's sin and Adam 's sin , just as much as your sin and the person who will be born in ten years time their sin also , all our sins er as Gloria just read there from , from one John to two they were all of him he has died for every one , well that 's his humiliation , hurry along quickly now his exhortation , the period from Jesus 's resurrection onward is referred to as to the , as the state of exhortation , now what does that term mean , well as Jesus according to his divine nature has always been , he was always every where , now in his human nature , before , be , sorry it 's not , it 's not on that one , but before he , he came to earth , he was every where , he was God , he was , he was omnia present that means he was every where at the same time , but he takes upon himself he 's su , he 's , he 's human nature and he takes upon himself the limitations and when Jesus is walking down second avenue in , in Jerusalem he 's not in Nazareth that 's why there were times when people came to er , to , to , came rushing out because they heard that Jesus was passing by , see he was n't there resident with them , he passed by , now he 's gone back to heaven and where is he , he 's in heaven , he , er whereabouts , where do you think Jesus is now , that resurrected body that was glorified that has gone back to heaven , where do you think it is |
| 18 | Old Ape ambled past him on the way to the back door for his dinner and his scraps , carrying a red plastic bucket . |
| 19 | He looked around him , aware of the traffic speeding up and down , of the people who walked past him on the pavement , of people coming out of McDonalds laden with fast food . |
| 20 | Yelping in alarm as he tipped her sideways and moved swiftly to trap her beneath him on the sofa , she stared up at him in shock . |
| 21 | Possibly there was some breakdown of control when he entered London , which may well have contributed to a reaction against him on the part of the citizens . |
| 22 | Common Law might enable the defrauded party to resist an action brought against him on the contract ; Equity could order the document to be handed up and destroyed or cancelled . |
| 23 | Behind him on the wall there 's this whole bunch of oils . |
| 24 | Thus Old Den left the scene of his many triumphs on the shoulders of his son and his friends , leaving behind him on the bar fond memories of countless great nights of debates , discussion and song , echoed now in the keening of the women from their seats in the corner . |
| 25 | Behind him on the back seats of the bus four teenagers argued loudly over the cost of the litre of cider and half bottle of vodka they passed between them . |
| 26 | He led the way down the slope , his shadow stretching behind him on the grass . |
| 27 | Less the arm the figure is complete in itself , but it was part of a larger whole : a four-horse team , the charioteer in the car holding the reins , possibly the dedicator as a warrior behind him on the ground or mounting , probably a groom at the horses ' heads ( a small-scale arm was found , as well as scraps of the horses ' legs and tails ) . |
| 28 | ENGLAND cricket captain Graham Gooch will be able to put his and wife Brenda 's marriage problems behind him on the team 's tour of India , his father claimed last night . |
| 29 | Holly saw his face as he passed behind him on the perimeter path , a face that was scraped with despair . |
| 30 | Mr Woods ' teenage daughter Michelle , who 'd gone with him on the trip , witnessed the accident . |