Example sentences of "the [noun] [conj] [verb] him on " in BNC.

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1 Ensure that the initiating member is kept informed of the progress of the engagement and copy him on all relevant correspondence .
2 Brian had not merely hated the cockerel but feared it since it had got through the fence and bitten him on the leg .
3 Council members mostly agreed they are a hazard , and Peter pointed out that if the car that hit him on a roundabout had been fitted with them , he would n't be here now .
4 They then bundled him out of the car and left him on the road .
5 He crossed to the guard and tapped him on the arm .
6 An individual suspecting that an unwarranted invasion of privacy may about to be published would be able to approach the council 's director , who , when satisfied of this , ‘ should instantly contact the editor and put him on notice of the complaint .
7 If satisfied , the director should instantly contact the editor and put him on notice of a complaint .
8 Pearce , wanting to take a quick throw-in , grabbed the ball and pushed him on the cinder track surrounding the pitch .
9 It 's your job to evaluate the stuff and keep him on the ball .
10 He delivered a ringing First Amendment call to arms , enjoining the assembled audience of about 2,000 people to step forward from the sidelines and join him on the battlefield to protect the artist 's right to express himself as he wishes , unhindered by the tastes or intrusions of the government .
11 Erm I mean I 'm concerned again through his eyesight that i were we to put him as the assistant and put him on a machine , that he might just put his hand somewhere and get his hand bloody trapped or whatever with his eyesight .
12 Tolby seemed to have buttered up all the Devenishes for what he could get : the father took him into the firm and launched him on his career ; Clare darned his socks and cooked him meals ; and Hubert — if Henry was right — had put some business his way .
13 One day last October , as a Conservative politician , Alberto Dahik , rose to speak in Congress , a rival congressman launched a heavy glass ashtray across the chamber and hit him on the head .
14 He stood there like an idiot as she clasped him by the arms and kissed him on the cheek .
15 It finished ( as a bowler ) the former Derbyshire player , Fred Swarbrook , who gave up the unequal struggle when , peering frantically around to see where a delivery had gone , he found out only when the ball dropped out of the stratosphere and hit him on top of the head .
16 Then they peeled back the bedcovers and laid him on a crisp sheet , covering him from the waist down with another sheet .
17 Putting down his carrot , Hazel ran across , scrambled up the bank and joined him on the bare ground under the low , close boughs .
18 He was convicted of repeatedly punching the victim and striking him on the neck with a knife , then chasing him into a garden .
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