Example sentences of "[prep] him on [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet there had never been any reserve in her , bearing towards him on that account . |
| 2 | If Cad had become aware of him on that occasion , as she soon would , when she became their go-between , she would have taken his attachment as her due : she counted the giving of delight as nothing for she accomplished it without intending it . |
| 3 | Where a solicitor realises himself that he has been negligent or his client makes a claim against him on that ground , the client must be told of the circumstances ( if he is not already aware of them ) and be advised to seek independent advice . |
| 4 | It is easy to call Mr Honey ford , the Bradford head teacher , a racist and to organize against him on that basis but less easy to show precisely how and why this is the case . |
| 5 | I have had the dubious privilege over the years of debating with him on many occasions . |
| 6 | I disagreed with much of what he had to say , but I welcome him to the House from this Bench and look forward to debating these issues with him on many occasions . |
| 7 | Some had been with him on that night . |
| 8 | His piece The ‘ Magic ’ Boots made me smile in reminiscence , since I was one of those with him on that occasion — the weekend in Langdale when Brasher Boots were launched on an unsuspecting world . |
| 9 | And that might be my only , you know , substantive interaction with him on that day . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | He knows that many of those now present will be eager to go with him on this adventure , but first of all he would like to present them with a challenge . |
| 12 | The logical conclusion of all this is that there can no longer be a justification for the massive nuclear arsenals held by both sides , that only the absolute minimum of nuclear defence is required and that , because President Yeltsin , too , now has his finger on the nuclear button , we should now be doing business with him on this issue as on so many others . |
| 13 | This is a disgrace and wi we will never agree with him on this issue . |
| 14 | In Chapter 13 I will try to explain why I agree with him on this point . |
| 15 | " CAO expressed disappointment that we did not seem to agree with him on this point , but added that he was faced with a grave administrative problem with hundreds of thousands of German PoWs on his hands and could not bother at this time about who might or who might not be handed over to the Russians or Partisans to be shot . " |
| 16 | CAO expressed disappointment that we did not seem to agree with him on this point but added that he was faced with a grave administrative problem with hundreds of thousands of German PoWs on his hands and could not bother at this time about who might or might not be turned over to the Russians and Partisans to be shot . |
| 17 | Mansell 's Williams team-mate , Riccardo Patrese , in the other FW14B , could not compete with him on this form and , struggling with oversteer , recorded a quickest lap of 1–17.591 , 1.8sec slower . |
| 18 | Arthur Ibbetson , the English cameraman who worked with him on several occasions , first notes how alarmed he was to discover what a bad skin Richard had and then enthuses without pause about the shape of his face , his professionalism , his patience . |
| 19 | Gould lost no time venturing into the field , taking with him on some excursions his nephew Henry , who was understandably thrilled by the prospect of driving bullock carts ; his servant James , who he was zealously training in the art of taxidermy ; and sometimes his assistant Gilbert . |
| 20 | That is not said by way of criticism , because the case does not appear primarily to have been argued before him on that basis . |
| 21 | Nothing further was heard from him on that subject but in the meantime Whitbread had made contact with a Bedford surgeon , Samuel Young , who embarked on an extended trial of the remedy over the course of the following three years . |
| 22 | He was shouting and people were breaking away from him on both sides . |
| 23 | I got a , good buy for him on that coat he 's wearing , got it in Benny 's . |
| 24 | Morse inhaled deeply upon yet another cigarette , half closed his eyes , shook his head , and relapsed into the silence that was customary for him on any journey . |
| 25 | Philip went back to Richard 's rooms in college to wait for him on this night of undreamt-of triumph , to enjoy it with him , to talk it through . |
| 26 | ‘ If I 'd been fitter I would have been sitting next to him on that aeroplane , ’ said heartbroken Fiona , who had nicknamed her lover the ‘ Kiwi Crocodile Dundee . ’ |
| 27 | Will he carefully consider the representations that I have sent to him on that subject ? |
| 28 | Roman frowned and she knew he was angry at her manoeuvre , but he was far too fond of holding her close to him on any excuse , and she was finding his touch more and more disturbing . |
| 29 | From this moment the idea of compromise began to gain ground , not with Anselm , but with those around him on all sides , and in the papal Curia itself . |