Example sentences of "on him [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Prompt service on him of a Specification requiring production of wages information held by him , or books of account if he is a sole trader or in partnership , may be the basis of a rude awakening . |
| 2 | The late service on him of the committal order did not hinder any appeal or application for release that he might otherwise have made . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | But a loveable man with it and a smile on him to the last . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | You do the teacher in question a terrible injustice by putting these emotive labels on him without a shred of evidence that he presents a risk to the children he teaches . |
| 8 | It 's entirely up to you , if you wish to go on your own , I would not resume , yeah , presents on him without an invitation |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | There 's no hurry for that now that the money 's been cut back , Mr Silver can go on economising on space and heat and lighting for his twelve women workers for a good few years yet , and in any case , no-one 's been round to check up on him for a long time now . |
| 15 | Philip came up to keep an eye on him for a week or so . |
| 16 | " I hope you were n't depending on him for a lift , were you ? " he asked Graham . |
| 17 | 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 ? ’ |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | By contrast , he did inherit a destructive family situation which weighed heavily on him for the rest of his life . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Becky 's dark eyes fixed on him for the first time . |
| 24 | Off went the man into the woods only to return screaming for help with a huge grizzly gaining on him with every stride . |
| 25 | The whole campaign dragged on him with a dead weight at this moment . |
| 26 | The problem was eventually reduced by putting a headstall on him with a long rope attached . |
| 27 | Davis touched his forelock and then glanced towards the Oaks , as though conscious that George 's eyes were fixed on him with a disturbing intensity . |
| 28 | He went straight over to Brian , saying , ‘ So , you want escape ? ’ and started raining blows down on him with a stick . |
| 29 | The accused claimed that he had produced the gun to try to hold Robert at bay and then shot him when he advanced on him with a hunting knife . |
| 30 | ‘ You all right ? ’ asked Biff , focusing on him with an effort . |