Example sentences of "on him and [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The robot put Buff to sleep , then put the spacesuit on him and carried him to the spaceship . |
| 2 | Mr Miah 's eleven year old son offered to help , so one of them put a gun on him and forced him to lead them to it . |
| 3 | The gang pounced on him and knocked him to the ground — but he curled up into a ball to save himself as punches and kicks rained down . |
| 4 | This had a marvellous calming effect on him and made him determined to do the job right , especially as it was Molly 's first time . |
| 5 | Khrushchev lavished banquets , ballets and banter on him and took him tobogganing — then , with mysterious abruptness , withdrew his favours and gave the British a public drubbing over the Suez adventure and the Berlin question , where he was demanding the evacuation of allied troops . |
| 6 | Bosley and Hughes knelt on him and manacled his hands behind his back . |
| 7 | The Oxfam man took pity on him and brought him a pair from stock . |
| 8 | Convena did all his work and they asked him to go to London you know , there 's some was on years ago so he goes to the headquarters and he said he just could n't believe it , he turned on him and said you 're a shallow bloody hypocrite he said ! |
| 9 | And then I took pity on him and lent him forty . |
| 10 | That evening Baldwin called on him and told him , ‘ We all stand together . ’ |
| 11 | When he was in a room with people , unless he was following a definite thought , he was so open to their influence that the identity of everyone pressed on him and annihilated him : … |
| 12 | As a result her handsome husband shrank into a shrivelled old man until he was so deformed the gods took pity on him and turned him into a cicada — one of the first creatures to excitedly greet the dawn on a warm summer 's day . |
| 13 | For a second he thought the two of them were going to turn on him and hit him . |
| 14 | In a flash Perdita closed on him and bashed him across the knuckles with her stick . |
| 15 | The old couple , poor as they were , took pity on him and gave him food to eat and water to drink . |