Example sentences of "he [conj] [vb past] him on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then she went out and picked him up and cuddled him and fed him on the cream of a new bottle of milk . |
| 2 | Marjorie went to him and took him on her lap . |
| 3 | As on every night , she went up to him and kissed him on the lips . |
| 4 | Christina flung her arms around him and kissed him on the cheek . |
| 5 | My eyes then focus directly between the top of the windscreen and the roof , and if I 'm at the front at traffic lights , I feel like Ayrton Senna would if you blindfolded him and put him on pole position . |
| 6 | OK , we 'll flush him and put him on forced diuresis . |
| 7 | Now he was hopelessly confused and lost , and the fear he had extended himself to contain shook him from head to foot as they unstrapped him and stood him on his feet again . |
| 8 | He is himself unreadable and hence ungovernable — a walking accusation levelled at the sympathetic educated sensibility which seeks simultaneously to understand him and set him on the straight and narrow . |
| 9 | Whereas a white youth may have visions of becoming a successful sportsman , his parents may have a strong enough hold over him to deflect him and set him on course for a ‘ straight ’ job ; often this is not the case with blacks . |