Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] him on [prep] " in BNC.

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1 He refused to talk about his businesswoman wife who often followed his rounds wearing bright , tight dresses and cheering him on at every green .
2 As well as capturing Irwin from Elland Road , they picked up defender Andy Linighan for £45,000 and sold him on to Norwich for £350,000 — and they got an extra £150,000 when he moved to Arsenal for £1 million .
3 The Head gaped , and passed him on to Sylvester .
4 His team-mates Andre Agassi , Pete Sampras and John McEnroe rushed on court and lifted him on to their shoulders to carry him to the sidelines .
5 They connected up the drip , set it running and turned him on to his side .
6 ‘ Bring a horse , ’ said Hotspur , rearing up fiercely and looking about him for the nearest serviceable squire , ‘ and get him on to it .
7 Laura strode over and booted him on to his back .
8 We , Rosencrantz and Guildenstern , from our young days brought up with him , awakened by a man standing on his saddle , are summoned , and arrive , and are instructed to glean what afflicts him and draw him on to pleasures , such s a play , which unfortunately , as it turns out , is abandoned in some confusion owing to certain nuances outside our appreciation — which , among other causes , results in , among other effects , a high , not to say , homicidal , excitement in Hamlet , whom we , in consequence , are escorting , for his own good , to England .
9 Kalchu reached over to where he and Hārkini had been squabbling , picked him up by both elbows and pulled him on to his lap .
10 With the rough timbers pushed wide I got behind the bullock and sent him on to the opening .
11 Of course Alison was not ‘ living in ’ the house , but was often there visiting Patrick ( her help as a nurse was no longer required ) , joining Jack in his studio ( where she talked with him about his work ) , or chatting with him and Franca in the drawing room or kitchen before departing with Jack to a restaurant and taking him on to her flat for the night .
12 A Polish farmer fits him out with a complete set of dry clothes and sends him on to the West German embassy in Warsaw .
13 Jed grabbed Gorelli by the upper arm and spun him on to the balcony .
14 His whole body felt bruised from the speed at which Doyle had dragged him round and thrown him on to the floor when they heard the shout outside .
15 They dropped the stretcher by Tommy 's side and dragged him on to the canvas before jogging back towards the trench .
16 One of his strange exploits among other frolics , was having a coffin made of copper ( which one of his mines had that year produced ) , and placed in the great hall , and instead of his making use of it as a monitor that might have made him ashamed and terrified at his past life , and induce him to make amends in future , it was filled with punch , and he and his comrades soon made themselves incapable of any sort of reflection ; this was often repeated , and hurried him on to that awful moment he had so much reason to dread .
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