Example sentences of "on him [conj] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 He 'd remember me , too , because he would have wondered what percentage I had on him that entitled me to come down from her apartment in the early morning .
2 His wife Maggie kept on eye on him but said it was all right for a special occasion and that he could rejoin the pledge tomorrow .
3 The lion immediately jumps on him and forces him to the ground .
4 The robot put Buff to sleep , then put the spacesuit on him and carried him to the spaceship .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 Franca thought , he 'll lie on him and suffocate him .
8 John likes to keep the horses separate so that they do n't kick each other , but Hopscotch often jumps into Milton 's paddock to keep him company ; and sometimes if the weather is bad , one of the children 's ponies is turned out with him , otherwise Milton , who is a bit of a softy , will hang around by the gate in the hope that someone will take pity on him and take him back to his warm stable .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 The Oxfam man took pity on him and brought him a pair from stock .
12 Sit on him and try it .
13 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 !
14 And then I took pity on him and lent him forty .
15 He must n't touch her or she would shatter to pieces , fall on him and ask him why he was ignoring her in favour of her sister .
16 That evening Baldwin called on him and told him , ‘ We all stand together . ’
17 The 16-year-old boy complained that his mother , who remarried and had three younger sons by her second husband , kept picking on him and ridiculing him .
18 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 : …
19 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 .
20 For a second he thought the two of them were going to turn on him and hit him .
21 In a flash Perdita closed on him and bashed him across the knuckles with her stick .
22 At night see he ca n't leave him alone he sits there and he goes or something like that and jumps on him and gives him a I ca n't keep my hands off that dog !
23 The old couple , poor as they were , took pity on him and gave him food to eat and water to drink .
24 There are enough of them to gang up on him and dominate him , even though he remains the group ‘ administrator ’ .
25 It is further the case that a father who gets his 14-year-old daughter to perform an act of fellatio on him or to masturbate him is not criminally liable .
26 I 've seen the man 's face actually resting on the foot of the horse ; but never at any time the horse stand on him , tramp on him or damage him in any way .
27 She did n't want to think about Timothy Gedge , to dwell on him or to consider him in any way whatsoever .
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