Example sentences of "him [conj] [verb] him on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thereafter Helen frequently walked to meet him or to accompany him on his return home across Wandsworth Common and on January 1896 they had their first long walk to Richmond . |
| 2 | A few of his fellow citizens would wait until the train was about to depart , nobble him and throw him on the train , slip the guards a few dollars and wave goodbye . |
| 3 | Then she went out and picked him up and cuddled him and fed him on the cream of a new bottle of milk . |
| 4 | Marjorie went to him and took him on her lap . |
| 5 | As on every night , she went up to him and kissed him on the lips . |
| 6 | Christina flung her arms around him and kissed him on the cheek . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | OK , we 'll flush him and put him on forced diuresis . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | [ He confesses however his current partner fell in love with him when watching him on stage pretending to translate a Peurto Rican goalkeeper onstage . ] |