Example sentences of "on he [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The late service on him of the committal order did not hinder any appeal or application for release that he might otherwise have made . |
| 2 | Federman has fully digested Beckett 's influence on him to the point of formulating carefully thought-out positions on the new direction fiction will take . |
| 3 | But a loveable man with it and a smile on him to the last . |
| 4 | So let's hope Shirley Bassey turned out to be a Real Big Spender and put the Goldfinger on him to the tune of a few bob . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I know that whether it was trying to dig him up for some doubles at Kyalami or just dropping in on him aboard the Queen Mary , I always called up first to make sure he was not otherwise engaged , and I can recall many times when James appeared at the track looking benign but far from fresh . |
| 7 | Things had changed since the 1920s when Lionel Hedges , a Tonbridge and Kent cricketer and Oxford blue , had dismissed ‘ a seedy looking middle-aged gentleman [ who ] called on him on the morning of a match . |
| 8 | We had indeed , and Denis was in a filthy mood because his motorbike had died on him on the way into Cambridge and he had had to push it five miles back — and he had been taking his temper out on me ever since lunchtime . |
| 9 | Lin Foh hesitated , frowned , then glanced back at the two young Foreign Office men ; they were hardly protection for the Colonel ; rather , were deliberately overt presences with him , keeping an eye on him on the instruction of the Foreign Secretary . |
| 10 | As women do , she probably knew that she had made an impression on him on the two or three occasions they had met at Muthaiga . |
| 11 | If you 've got some new material on him that you want to share with us , I 'm more than happy to arrange another lecture for you later in the term , but frankly , as you 've apparently given the same lecture on him for the past ten years , I can hardly be accused of interfering with academic freedom , can I ? ’ |
| 12 | She turned to look into Gazzer 's face , concentrating her attention on him for the first time since he had climbed up to sit beside her in the sand dunes . |
| 13 | It is contained in the old aphorism ‘ the child is father to the man ’ , and expresses the belief that a child 's experiences in the early years will leave a mark on him for the rest of his life . |
| 14 | By contrast , he did inherit a destructive family situation which weighed heavily on him for the rest of his life . |
| 15 | A first round victory caught everyone 's attention , and Swift kept close tabs on him for the rest of the year , even fielding a car for him in the 25th anniversary race at Silverstone and again in the Irish Festival . |
| 16 | The idea , however , that the rebels aimed to kill the King is unlikely — not only did the rebels show a positive loyalty to him at Mile End and Smithfield , and adopt as a watchword ‘ King Richard and the True Commons ’ , but they made no attempt to take vengeance on him for the death of Wat Tyler , when he could have been at their mercy . |
| 17 | Becky 's dark eyes fixed on him for the first time . |
| 18 | We can go easy on him with the questions , but I want Nate to be impressed . |
| 19 | Colt had laughed at the Captain and the men around him , laughed until they took out their failure on him with the most savage beating he had ever received . |
| 20 | ‘ I really am sorry , ’ he repeated and wondered why it was that these lunches , designed as an escape from responsibility , had begun to weigh on him with the weariness of marriage itself . |
| 21 | At that lunch in the Oxford and Cambridge he was in the sombre mood that had descended on him with the signing of the Munich Agreement . |
| 22 | Shamji , who was also ordered to pay £28,960 costs , had asked the Appeal Court to reduce the sentence imposed on him at the Old Bailey on October 30 . |
| 23 | The letter is brief and unsigned , saying only that my lord wishes me to call on him at the Garden Tower at my earliest convenience . |
| 24 | A SCHOOLBOY was killed when a wall collapsed on him at the weekend . |
| 25 | To begin with , after the attack on him at the Lambeth Baths hall , his view of himself changed in a literal sense . |
| 26 | At the ship 's office I was informed that Sir George Clerk , the British Ambassador , had sent a message that as soon as I landed I was to call on him at the Embassy . |
| 27 | Michael Pumfrey had spent part of his childhood in Cullbridge , though the existence of Burleigh School had made no particular impression on him at the time . |
| 28 | Claudine had probably dropped that on him at the last minute . |
| 29 | Jessica 's interest is Rory Collins , we 're working on him at the moment . |
| 30 | Coroner Ronald O'Doherty said the boy had died five hours after the insecure steel goal-posts fell on him at the Derry City Council ground . |