Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] him on " in BNC.
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1 | He looked up at her and smiled and she lay down with him on the grass in the sun . |
2 | He relaxed his death-hold on me and made me sit down with him on a convenient bench . |
3 | Outside was darkness , and as usual the dark came in with him on hair and clothes . |
4 | Now he was back in his hovel and naked , lying next to a girl who was having a baby and had moved in with him on that account . |
5 | Rindi was a shy and diminutive man of indeterminate age , whom we first met at the Keraing 's house and persuaded to take us along with him on a number of occasions to record his unenviable working day or , rather , night . |
6 | erm er and the spelling of it , you , you asked , I think , about the , about the Bridgit side of it and so on and , and questioned that and then again later on picked up a bit about the er tt about the spelling of the children 's names so you , you went along with him on , on that . |
7 | ‘ When I put the phone down on him on Friday that was it . |
8 | ‘ Changed days , Piper ! ’ remarked Jimmy , as I sat down beside him on a bale of hay . |
9 | She sat down beside him on the cool grass . |
10 | Nicolo grinned as he drew her down beside him on a marble bench . |
11 | Sergeant Kidd returned to his patrol car to answer the insistent calls coming through for him on the radio . |
12 | He was shouting and people were breaking away from him on both sides . |
13 | The feathers floated away from him on the light breeze , catching at the grey budding branches of the tree beneath him , drifting down to where the few Men and People who were there looked helplessly up . |
14 | Mr Larkin says his suffering is worse for knowing that Gary had only agreed to go to Chorley at the last minute after two people , a man and a woman , had spoken separately to him on the phone . |
15 | Aitken asserted at the trial , and this view was certainly supported by independent witnesses , that no word about confidentiality was ever uttered , but the document was handed over to him on the footing that it would be returned within a very short time . |
16 | I do n't know Hugh you see because my friend got off with him on holiday |
17 | As he strode out into the darkness , the gloom and chill of the evening only served to sharpen his anticipation , so that he had no eyes for the RIC men on patrol , the few pedestrians hurrying along , or the horse and cart just moving off beside him on the road , the barely discernible name JAS SULLIVAN painted on the cart 's side and a burly figure with a flattened nose and scarred face hunched on the driver 's seat , desultorily twitching the reins . |
18 | Listening once to him on the Bench I recalled an occasion when the aged and formidable boys ' maid who looked after our rooms had stood with arms akimbo accusing him of some peccadillo , and ended her tirade : " Mr Phillimore , do n't you stand there lying like Ananias ! " |
19 | ‘ Have you thought of anything extra special ? ’ asked Endill when he managed to catch up with him on his way to the library . |
20 | In February '91 Tony started an essay on Arafat , ‘ I hooked up with him on two different occasions , over the course of a couple months , trying to do a photo-essay on him ; which was probably the most ridiculous thing to do the first time out of the box for a while — talk about a third-rate Keystone kops movie , with me as the star ! ’ |
21 | ‘ Why you took up with him on this unlikely enterprise . ’ |
22 | So now I have to put up with him on the boat . |
23 | What chance a british victory … no chance in the big finals … but Oxfordshire 's Tim Henman has qualified and we 'll be joining up with him on Monday |
24 | one young golfer who did grow up to greatness is Sandy Lyle … he 's in Thame on Sunday to open up the new Oxfordshire Golf Club we 'll be meeting up with him on Monday … |
25 | She climbed up beside him on the ridge of rock . |
26 | The tanker driver , Derrick Worrell from Bath told the coroner he saw the car coming straight at him on the wrong side of the white line . |
27 | I looked up at him on the other side of the table , at his severe eyes on mine . |
28 | T.V. hairdresser Andrew Collinge had his work cut out for him on 23rd January . |
29 | He had meant to ask his research assistant to sketch something out for him on ‘ A Woman 's Place ’ or some such subject , but the silly girl 's talents did not encompass putting pen to paper . |
30 | It makes , you know , if we we 're not gon na go bust just to get twelve months bloody work out of him on a service contract ! |