Example sentences of "[verb] him on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We send him on a B S five four double O course . |
| 2 | Give him a mug of cocoa and a big kiss and send him on a month 's leave . |
| 3 | When I came back , cos I went in on the way to the hairdresser 's , to find out about it , and I thought I 'd buy him on the way back , when I went back it was still sitting in the same place with its tail hanging out of the back . |
| 4 | Temple could write with perfect confidence in his audience that though he would not ‘ strain the reader 's capacity by asking him to imagine a native Governor of a Colony or Protectorate ’ or even a native Colonial Secretary of Nigeria — a proposal which ‘ does not come within the bounds of practical politics ’ — he counted it an advantage of Indirect Rule that under it ‘ the native can and does fill not only positions of great responsibility but the highest positions , positions which place him on the social scale on an equality with the King 's representative himself ’ . |
| 5 | Place him on the bed . ’ |
| 6 | This was not the moment to lecture him on the facts of hospital life , so I said briefly , ‘ Patients prefer two to one , ’ and asked if he had explained his position to Sister . |
| 7 | ‘ Would n't want to meet him on a dark night , ’ breathed Arthur , trying to make light of the incident . |
| 8 | At Aintree he beat The Thinker just over seven lengths and is due to meet him on the same terms , although Jimmy Frost , his rider , may put up a pound or two more than the minimum 10st . |
| 9 | We arranged to meet him on the early train at Skipton the next day and off he went to his bog . |
| 10 | Much to his surprise , he found Burn was already staying there but ‘ laid up with a severe illness ’ , so he arranged to meet him on the following Monday . |
| 11 | But I was anxious to see Mr Rochester , who had been away on business , so I ran out of the quiet house to meet him on the road . |
| 12 | He invited you up the pitch to meet him on the drive . |
| 13 | I often have to get up with Graham , carry him into the living room and nurse him into the living room and nurse him on the armchair . |
| 14 | Dyson swung the wheel to the left , then swung it sharply to the right again to avoid a lorry which was overtaking him on the inside . |
| 15 | His relations in the St. Cleer area noticed the name of their now famous relation and invited him on a visit . |
| 16 | Charity 's friends were hardly likely to accept him on the strength of a short acquaintance with the nursery slopes at Wengen . |
| 17 | The man had approached him on the street while he was walking home , head down against the wind . |
| 18 | Then I heard him falling and hurried back to find him on the floor . |
| 19 | She went into Jack 's office to find him on the phone . |
| 20 | I mean you 're lucky to get that one mate , I mean you must have been , caught him on a real good day . |
| 21 | The stolen gym shoe , hurled by Snecky , caught him on the side of the face . |
| 22 | A shower of jeers greeted him from the queue and , as he passed the last boy , who was just out of sight of Mr Gillis , a foot shot out , caught him on the ankle and down he went , sprawling on the wooden floor . |
| 23 | The fist came up and caught him on the side of the head and Jack went down , seeing little sparkling stars . |
| 24 | Whitlock sprung to his feet and caught him on the side of the head with a stinging haymaker then followed up with two brutal body punches that dropped him to his knees . |
| 25 | I 'm not keeping him on the hop , but I am making a joke of things . |
| 26 | You now , he , he 's had , I 'm just keeping him on the straight and narrow while he 's on remission . |
| 27 | Cos his dad has him on a mon on a morning from nine till twelve so |
| 28 | He sought mandamus directed not to the visitor but to the provost and fellows to reinstate him on the grounds that the provost and fellows had breached the rules of natural justice . |
| 29 | ‘ Two days after I did the tattoo they found him on a street in Los Ilusiones . |
| 30 | One week we decided to follow him to find out where he was sloping off to We found him on the roof ledge peering down at people in a car below . |