Example sentences of "[verb] him on a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Would n't want to meet him on a dark night , ’ breathed Arthur , trying to make light of the incident . |
| 2 | As preparation for his new appointment the BDA sponsored him on a two-year course at Bulmershe College , now Reading University , for a certificate in youth and community work , which he duly obtained . |
| 3 | Apparently Mr Baker had met him on a social occasion , and had been impressed by his traditionalist views . |
| 4 | And believe it or not we 've got to put him on a high chair to enable him to manage his instrument . ’ |
| 5 | By contrast the peripheral employee is judged entirely on his past record or that of the consultant company which employs him on a semi-permanent basis . |
| 6 | Owen 's reaction touched him on a sore spot ; and it was made all the sorer by an angry feeling inside him that there had indeed been incompetence , Egyptian incompetence , that he , Mahmoud , was ultimately responsible for it — and that there was absolutely nothing that he could in practice do about it . |
| 7 | The answer is probably to run him on a left hand track where such antics would not cost him so much ground . |
| 8 | The trial of Marion Barry , 54 , Mayor of Washington DC , ended on Aug. 10 when , after eight days of deliberation , the jury convicted him on one count of possessing cocaine but acquitted him on a second charge of possession . |
| 9 | He can console himself with a winter passage booked to Australia , and the knowledge that his talent and determined character have finally set him on a rightful path to the pinnacle of the game . |
| 10 | On Friday , 10 March , by which time Pons was becoming convinced that their hopes were at last being confirmed , Ron Fawcett , the US editor of the Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry , called him on a personal matter . |
| 11 | Claudia lost her breath ; this was intolerable — not only had she been forced to accompany him on a wild chase after Garry Turner , but she was being subjected to what amounted to sexual harassment . |
| 12 | To wit : Syrett , beautiful but doomed , cut his hand on a wine glass at a party and , after ignoring his doctor 's advice to avoid climbing , did irreparable damage to his tendons which started him on a tightening spiral of alcoholism and eventual suicide . |
| 13 | But they started him on a new course of treatment yesterday and he 's begun to respond . ’ |
| 14 | During his time as Party chairman , many constituency officers had been to see him on a similar errand . |
| 15 | It suddenly crossed my mind that perhaps he thought I had come to see him on a professional level , that I was in need of spiritual help or whatever . |
| 16 | Then they peeled back the bedcovers and laid him on a crisp sheet , covering him from the waist down with another sheet . |
| 17 | ‘ We 're always on the look-out for stories of good performance and good practice somewhere in the group , ’ says Jones , who writes all the copy in a job taking him on a growing number of foreign assignments . |
| 18 | It had touched him on a raw spot . |
| 19 | Former Rovers boss Don Mackay took him on a free transfer from Gijon to Ewood Park two seasons ago . |
| 20 | But a new administration in 1807 sent him on a futile mission to conciliate Denmark , following the British bombardment of Copenhagen . |
| 21 | I 've called him Ferdinand ( not Caliban ) three times , and complimented him on a horrid new tie . |
| 22 | The defendant , who paid £10 per deal , said that the amphetamine put him on a high for an hour and that he used to escape pressures and worries . |
| 23 | He said : ‘ All I know is that we 've signed him on a playing contract for four years and we 're delighted to have him back . |
| 24 | But do n't worry : I 've put him on a separate floor . ’ |
| 25 | It was a special gift from a famous actor in California who had tried to persuade Sweetheart to join him on a luxury tour of Europe . |
| 26 | She would smile at a man , lead him on a few steps , then turn cold . ’ |