Example sentences of "[prep] him on [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The one thing Phil is still learning is how to cope when batsmen get after him on a good pitch . |
| 2 | Father Poole pointed to the chair opposite him on the other side of the fireplace . |
| 3 | I walked towards him on the stony track |
| 4 | Things , however , came to a head one day when a veterinary surgeon on his rounds , in a regulation Volvo estate , was alarmed to see Noddy tearing towards him on the wrong side of the road , in hot pursuit of a Transit van . |
| 5 | ‘ And there … ’ she stood up and walked round the table , placing the browning photograph firmly in front of him on the bright red and white of the American-cloth table cover , ‘ there 's … ’ she pointed to a figure dimly glimpsed beside a pillar in the background . |
| 6 | The last thing we want is pictures of him on the back pages having a punch-up . |
| 7 | Faldo had to wait until the ‘ 89 Masters before he could catch up with Lyle and maybe the picture of him on the 11th green , the second hole of a sudden-death play-off with Scott Hoch , encapsulates Europe 's men in the majors in the Eighties . |
| 8 | As Mr Mansell hesitated , Emerson Fittipaldi from Brazil and Arie Luyendyk from Holland zoomed past him on the main straight . |
| 9 | ‘ And there is n't even a sunset yet , ’ she husked desperately as the fire of his body and his need for her swelled and swelled within her till she was writhing with sweet ecstasy beneath him on the dry , dusty cliff-top . |
| 10 | Rufus and Mary lay quite near him on a candlewick bedspread Rufus had found in one of the spare bedrooms . |
| 11 | All three were found guilty as charged , save that the defendant had pleaded guilty to count 4 after a ruling against him on a legal submission . |
| 12 | There is only the lower half of the hero on the sherd but he is identified by the club , an unusually thin example , and with a cross hilt one expects on a sword , on his right hangs the lower part of the lion skin , behind him on the left are two long-necked birds , identifying this Labour , although there is no evidence of the bow ( fig. 14.35 ) . |
| 13 | Bock and Grigoriev were behind him on the main section of the catwalk . |
| 14 | The component parts of the multiplier have been agreed as four years for the period up to the age of nineteen when he leaves school and thirteen years thereafter Mrs doctor and Mr Paul 's headmaster agree that Paul needs an enabler at school during school hours , that is classroom hours , an enabler is in effect a classroom assistant who works with him on a one to one basis to ensure that he can participate in lessons . |
| 15 | Cleo had subsequently met the young De Belving several times at a squalid inn on the outskirts of the Burrows in order to have sex with him on a greasy , flea-invested bed in an upper room . |
| 16 | He relaxed his death-hold on me and made me sit down with him on a convenient bench . |
| 17 | Many who are with him on a daily basis support him because he is their only hope . |
| 18 | We wanted to have an urgent word with him on an important matter . ’ |
| 19 | Now Sebastian is dead , long dead , and Alix is married to Brian Bowen , son of a saw polisher , grandson of a furnaceman , and often sits with him on an old settee in her stockinged feet . |
| 20 | We ourselves heard this voice that came from heaven when we were with him on the sacred mountain … |
| 21 | The ascent in 1865 was just a week before Whymper climbed the Matterhorn , Moore was partnered by Horace Walker , who , the same year , was with him on the first ascent of the Brenva Ridge on Mt Blanc , and by guide Jakob Anderegg . |
| 22 | She felt as though she were standing on the edge of a great chasm , with him on the other side urging her to jump across to him . |
| 23 | He had expected to sweep Rachel off her feet and carry her off to New Zealand with him on the next sailing , but he had reckoned without her Jewish father and mother , the new Zionism and Rachel herself . |
| 24 | ‘ The matter of the king , ’ Agrippa announced , and I remembered a previous conversation with him on the wild heathlands of Leicester , how he had described Henry as the Great Dark Prince , the Mouldwarp . |
| 25 | I was put to work with him on the same bench and he not only taught me toolmaking , he also taught me about the trade union movement and the kind of society he wanted to see . ’ |
| 26 | Paul had reasons for the private emptying of his ; he was still treating himself with a solution of the doctor 's recommended potassium permanganate crystals , and had to make his exit quickly when Willie was out of the room , as that gregarious gentleman would have come with him on the same errand ; then hurry outside with the tell-tale purple contents , empty them , rinse the pot at the pump , and come back . |
| 27 | It was a risk , for she might well have run headlong into him on the first floor landing , but she had luck , and was round the next turn of the stairs when she checked and froze against the wall , hearing his rapid steps on the oak treads below her . |
| 28 | From time to time he would take it out and read it , but no others came ; and he had to be content from time to time with the sight of Dinah above him on the lighted stage , playing her part superbly , her breasts outlined by scarlet netted silk . |
| 29 | Our hero then has to cope not only with a lively two year old but also with his burgeoning infatuation for a woman quite a few rungs above him on the social ladder . |
| 30 | Alongside him on the front row was Nikki Lauda . |