Example sentences of "on him [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The villagers , however , took him at his word , only too willing to dump their scruffy-arsed offspring on him between the hours of ten and five . |
| 2 | We can go easy on him with the questions , but I want Nate to be impressed . |
| 3 | Cowards — preferring to spy on him from the shadows and whisper lies . |
| 4 | He became mayor for the first time in October 1261 and was reappointed in October 1262 , years in which the king dominated London , having thrown off the restrictions imposed on him by the Provisions of Oxford in 1258 . |
| 5 | Although he still speaks bitterly of the pressure put on him by the authorities , in fact they never succeeded in obliging him to send the children to school ; he was not even fined as he would have been in Britain . |