Example sentences of "[vb pp] him on [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The man had approached him on the street while he was walking home , head down against the wind . |
| 2 | Well he 's probably just caught him on the back of on the back of the calf but er I thought it was as you say I thought it was a nice sharp incisive tackle . |
| 3 | She had the fleeting impression that she 'd caught him on the raw . |
| 4 | A bit o' glass 'ad caught him on the fore'ead , but otherwise we 'ad n't a scratch to show for it between us . |
| 5 | He fought against the sensation that Molland had strapped him on a sort of conveyor belt in a factory that processed death . |
| 6 | I had seen him on a number of occasions during my childhood in Abyssinia where my father had been British Minister at Addis Ababa , but this was the first time I spoke to him . |
| 7 | There was Barrymore , with the light in his hand , looking out across the moor , exactly as I had seen him on the night before . |
| 8 | She had seen him on the telly — he had been on the early evening news tooting his trumpet . |
| 9 | Yeah I 've seen him on the telly |
| 10 | But she had met him on the towpath the next week and the one following . |
| 11 | Brian had not merely hated the cockerel but feared it since it had got through the fence and bitten him on the leg . |
| 12 | ‘ Bailey 's already briefed him on the telephone but he wo n't know you 're in charge of the operation until he gets here . |
| 13 | ‘ One must n't take too much of a good thing , for money is easily spent ’ , said one of Beatrice Potter 's hosts , putting the cigarette she had offered him on the mantelpiece after one or two puffs , for the next night . |
| 14 | ‘ She 's got him on a pedestal . ’ |
| 15 | She , she 's got him on a string ai n't she ! |
| 16 | Got him on the run . |
| 17 | I think that i i i I do n't , I 'd I I reckon they 've got him on the kidnapping charge . |
| 18 | Oh I 've got him on the tape |
| 19 | The divisional inspector had told him on the telephone of arrangements made for the use of a former Salvation Army hall , opposite the nick . |
| 20 | ‘ I told you you should have had him on a lead , ’ said Philip . |
| 21 | And yet he could have sworn that someone had tapped him on the shoulder . |
| 22 | And then he knew what it was that had tapped him on the shoulder . |
| 23 | Buckmaster had hired him on the spot . |
| 24 | I know him , I have even protected him on a number of occasions against scurrilous attacks by fellow priests . ’ |
| 25 | Someone claimed to have heard him on the radio from Darwin — but it was always someone at a third hand remove ; someone who had heard it from someone who had heard it from someone . |
| 26 | Mr Greenwald has now been appointed chairman of Tatra and Mr Shelby and Mr Rutherford have joined him on the board . |
| 27 | A few of his followers had joined him on the dais . |
| 28 | ‘ Now you have touched him on the raw . |
| 29 | ‘ How the hell did they get to England ? ’ the Exec Director had asked him on the phone . |
| 30 | Sorge had asked him on the way out of Washington . |