Example sentences of "[adj] on him [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those who assumed that the cottage was owned by him , not her , saw her as the unmarried sister , dependent on him for houseroom , companionship , a purpose in life . |
| 2 | The second , and the one with which he is still struggling , required him to search for a means of making the pupils less dependent on him for their mathematics . |
| 3 | And Anthea had become emotionally dependent on him in an alarmingly short time … |
| 4 | We can go easy on him with the questions , but I want Nate to be impressed . |
| 5 | It 's simply that he wants to create a better atmosphere , and show that after all he 's a reasonable man , and we should n't be too hard on him in these days . |
| 6 | ‘ But I believe it would be unfair on him after being out for so long to go straight back in and do a job . |
| 7 | When words ran as thin on him as this , he sometimes managed to suppose that it meant he was unconsciously saving them to write with . |
| 8 | " If you 're as keen on him as that , why do n't you marry him yourself then ? " |
| 9 | It was held that the arrangements constituted a settlement of which the taxpayer was a settlor , that he had provided income for the purposes of the settlement and the income was assessable on him under what is now TA 1988 , s663 . |