Example sentences of "have [verb] him on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since then , Dr Richardson has met him on many occasions , and he conveyed the university 's invitation to the Dalai Lama . |
| 2 | Despite bad publicity surrounding child abuse allegations which has dogged him on previous stops in Thailand , Singapore and Taiwan , Jackson 's Japanese fans made clear that , for them , their idol could do no wrong . |
| 3 | Unaware that a fly has accompanied him on his maiden voyage , he turns into a sex-obsessed , sugar-addicted mutant . |
| 4 | The law of Docherty 's life has taken him on a rollercoaster through football management . |
| 5 | Chris Bonington 's passion for climbing and adventure has taken him on expeditions all over the world . |
| 6 | Now the Supreme Court has put him on the spot . |
| 7 | But it was diving into a frioend 's pool at a private party in the Oxfordshire village of Nettlebed which has left him on Traction at the Stoke Mandeville Spinal Injuries unit . |
| 8 | Since joining BP as a petroleum engineer in 1974 , his career has kept him on the move . |
| 9 | She had the fleeting impression that she 'd caught him on the raw . |
| 10 | ‘ Have you not heard of Resenence Jeopardy ? ’ she 'd asked him on the first day of their acquaintance . |
| 11 | I 'll tell you this , I 've always had to like him on the job . |
| 12 | Touch wood , I 've never had to dope him on the lorry . |
| 13 | You may have caught him on television in 1991 when he was the studio expert for the BBC 's coverage of the Scrabble World Championship , or more recently introducing a video on the game . |
| 14 | It was just basically , one of those things , and Abbey paid out , because they said we would have done it , we would have accepted him on this anyway . |
| 15 | Maybe , if she could have accepted him on his terms … |
| 16 | ‘ I told you you should have had him on a lead , ’ said Philip . |
| 17 | ‘ A little thing could have set him on his way any time these past three years , and it would have had the same ending . ’ |
| 18 | They were as David and Jonathan , but if anyone had hinted such Jack would have poked him on the nose , and as for Charlie … |
| 19 | Although he lacked the control over the southern kingdoms which might have put him on Bede 's famous list of kings holding imperium in the south , he remained a formidable ruler , with the resources to endow the church lavishly and to raise the navy which must have been necessary for his invasion of Ireland . |
| 20 | When this happens the rest of the school , who along the way have trained with the successful runner , may have beaten him on occasion , have been course markers , marshals , timekeepers , supporters and team-mates , really feel that sport is n't just another soap opera glimpsed on television or paraded through the back pages of the newspapers — it 's something that they are actively experiencing at first hand for themselves . |
| 21 | He could no longer keep his eyes open to watch any one of the Thrill-a-Minute videos which , until quite recently , would have kept him on the edge of his seat . |
| 22 | down into his arteries and we ca n't get anything down there so they 're blocked , but he said how the hell he survived that op I do n't know he said they could 've done more with his legs but it meant another hour and a quarter minutes in surgery , and he said he 'd had enough we could n't have kept him on the table a minute longer so he said all we can do is wait , so now mum said well he 's alright in intensive care , he 's responding well , getting over the operation well , but what we was worried about was him breathing on his own , had he , had he been you see , anyway he said this on er Thursday |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | And to have met him on her own terms , or by accident , would have been one thing , and a delight , but to look as though she were some silly teenager following an idol … well , that was entirely another . |
| 25 | He had to try three of the numbers which the Substitute had given him on identical slips of paper , each of which had ‘ after eight-thirty ’ written in small , neat writing across the bottom . |
| 26 | Seb entered the gipsy encampment warily , remembering the reception Boz and his friends had given him on an earlier visit . |
| 27 | A few of his followers had joined him on the dais . |
| 28 | Sooner than he had expected , Harry found himself back in Swindon Central Library , this time perusing the national newspapers for 2 June 1987 in the hope of gleaning from them some clue as to what had eluded him on his visit to Tyler 's Hard . |
| 29 | ‘ 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 . |
| 30 | The man had approached him on the street while he was walking home , head down against the wind . |