Example sentences of "on the [noun] [conj] [verb] him " in BNC.
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| 1 | Artur Greisser , a Nazi and the Danzig nominee on the Harbour Board , went to the office of one of the Polish engineers on the Board and threatened him with a revolver . |
| 2 | Like many supposed puppets , Mr Castro learnt to tug on the strings that tied him to his masters ' hands . |
| 3 | Dot sat herself cross-legged on the bed and watched him perched on the chair by the window , blinking and twitching and fidgeting but never looking her way , then seeming to fall asleep and looking quite young , younger than Mr Brown anyhow , and certainly not at all like Sally 's dad who 'd been to Burma and eaten rats . |
| 4 | I sat on the bed and watched him . |
| 5 | Charlotte had blamed Grant 's affair on the work that kept him all week in a rented London flat while she and her three small daughters lived in their Suffolk cottage . |
| 6 | ‘ What are you doing ? ’ he shrieked , twisting about madly on the ropes that suspended him . |
| 7 | He tapped Cranston on the shoulder and raised him up , whispering in his ear . |
| 8 | On his journey , fearful and probably suffering from reactionary depression , he slept a night under a broom bush , where he dreamed that an angel touched him on the shoulder and bade him rise and eat . |
| 9 | An old servant , bald as a badger , yellow-faced and wizened , bustled towards us with all the speed of a snail ; he mumbled apologies in French but Ralemberg just tapped him gently on the shoulder and told him not to worry . |
| 10 | He only mentioned the gallery once more when Syl arrived , clapped him on the shoulder and asked him what he was up to now . |
| 11 | At four o'clock , nearly an hour before sunrise , the first blackbird began to sing and Thorfinn moved from light sleep to full awareness a moment before Klakkr son of Bathrik , his body-servant for many years , touched him on the shoulder and gave him the sentry 's report : no movement from the enemy in the wood . |
| 12 | Jacques Devraux had not troubled to make him known to the senator , but while his father made a final check of the baggage truck , Paul Devraux had patted him affectionately on the shoulder and introduced him to them as " the great all-purpose Annamese genie Ngo Van Loc , who 's houseboy , camp boy , chauffeur and indispensable general assistant to the humble Devraux family . " |
| 13 | He ran to the back door , found a man lying on the floor and dragged him out . |
| 14 | She sat on the floor and watched him take away her shoes and his shoes . |
| 15 | A big reason for bringing him was so he would not call Tod Richardson on the telephone and inform him I was coming . |
| 16 | When he returned to his office some two hours later , it was to hear from Mrs. Mott that Lord Coleworthy had been on the telephone and wanted him to ring back when he came in . |
| 17 | Lord Denning may have reasoned that a person who is obstructed is likely to use force on the obstructor and harm him . |
| 18 | She sat back on the sofa and motioned him beside her . |
| 19 | ‘ If I go now I 'll meet the constable on the way and tell him it was all a misunderstanding . ’ |
| 20 | When they do , they turn on the person and accuse him or her of being old-fashioned and not accepting them as they are . |
| 21 | He even patted Nick on the head and called him ‘ Young Nicodemus ’ , which amazed Nick so much he sat with his mouth hanging open and barely touched the roast meat on his plate . |
| 22 | Look what happened to Flaubert : a century after his death Sartre , like some brawny , desperate lifeguard , spent ten years beating on his chest and blowing into his mouth ; ten years trying to yank him back to consciousness , just so that he could sit him up on the sands and tell him exactly what he thought of him . |
| 23 | I called on the editor and sold him the idea that I should write the feature on my province ‘ Saskatchewan ’ , which I did , thus earning $30. towards the expenses of my Vancouver holiday . |
| 24 | They seemed to know there was cash on the premises and threatened him with a knife . |
| 25 | I untied the painter from its iron ring in the concrete , then squatted on the jetty and watched him fiddle inside the hatch . |
| 26 | The Stamford Bridge faithful turned on the keeper and jeered him until after the players had left the pitch . |
| 27 | When Dong , 24 , leapt from the window to escape , the driver , also a woman , slammed her foot on the accelerator and sent him flying . |
| 28 | They put the stranger down on the outskirts and left him standing in the middle of the road , his face in shadow under his cap and just a glimmer of those white , pebbly eyes . |
| 29 | Later , when he was in Wimbledon , I used to go round and drop some seeds on the ground and tell him they were pot . |
| 30 | His friend , Norman Prescott told Liverpool Crown Court that when he came out of the Horns Inn in Lowton Road , Golbourne , he later found Mr Maltby , 30 , lying on the ground and helped him up . |