Example sentences of "[vb pp] him on his [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ Nearly a fortnight ’ , he complained , was spent in Sydney organising his journey to the other side of the Liverpool Range — that remote and tantalising region that had eluded him on his first visit to Yarrundi because he had had to return to his wife in Hobart . |
2 | Li Shai Tung stood , leaning heavily upon the silver-headed cane he had come to use so often these days ; the cane with the dragon 's head Han Ch'in had bought him on his fiftieth birthday . |
3 | Kohl , in eastern Germany for the first time since the December 1990 general election , was jeered and pelted with eggs by several hundred protesters on April 7 in Erfurt ( where enthusiastic crowds of over 100,000 had greeted him on his last visit in February 1990 — see p. 37260 ) . |
4 | Unaware that a fly has accompanied him on his maiden voyage , he turns into a sex-obsessed , sugar-addicted mutant . |
5 | TOKS AKPATA is a man whose love of the game and whose own sad injury have spurred him on his one-man campaign to make the rugby pitch a safer place . |
6 | That 's why they 've sent him on his own . ’ |