Example sentences of "on him [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No company would permit an unqualified accountant to audit its books , no matter how well he presents himself , and no patient would allow a doctor without qualifications to operate on him just because he has plenty of ‘ implied ’ ability . |
| 2 | She had turned on him again that remarkable glance in which for the first time he had detected to his discomfiture a brief flash of intelligence and of calculation . |
| 3 | You mean old sod , thought Tom Tedder , torn between a consciousness of Dorothea Gilberd 's eyes on him again and some residual interest in the subject in hand . |
| 4 | Responsibility visibly descended on him again as he walked . |
| 5 | She advanced on him threateningly and he retreated behind the table . |
| 6 | Well the hose landed on him alright but it landed on his parcel and it the whole thing fell out on the road . |
| 7 | In all such cases the rule would seem to apply that the infant 's acts are ‘ voidable ’ ; they become binding on him only if , after attaining full age , he fails within a reasonable time to repudiate them . |
| 8 | Pearce rounded on him fiercely and the policeman held his arms wide in supplication . |
| 9 | Subsequently the contemnor complained to the local authority that they had not served the committal order on him personally and had failed to comply with the instruction issued by the Clerk of the Rules , that ‘ in all cases the applicant 's solicitors are responsible for serving the committal order ’ and that in consequence the order should be set aside . |
| 10 | ‘ I do n't want to put extra pressure on him now though , I just want him to keep things going as they are . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Put it this way , there would be an entirely different figure on him now if I had to name a price , even though he is 32 in January . |
| 12 | I mean my , one of my friend 's sons , he was a computer man , he was working on his own but he 's in his I should think he 's getting on for about forty six and he was doing freelance but this recession the people who er the firms who were employing him are using their own staff and they 're not calling on him now and er he 's not done any computing for twelve months . |
| 13 | But now I feel I should have sprung it on him more or less suddenly . |
| 14 | She let her eyes linger on him suggestively and watched him react , watched him wonder what exactly she meant . |
| 15 | Very few people at all would ever ever ever ever say that and we look at the , when we look at the , the erm format you 'll find called it a sadist because chains on him from because on him so that we . |
| 16 | She 'd turned her back on him then and stormed away , her back ramrod-straight , so angry she could barely see straight . |
| 17 | They came on him rapidly and powerfully and he decided that all he could do was to circle in a gentle way to indicate that he was not hostile , his heart filled with joy to see his own kind . |
| 18 | Philip had n't set eyes on him before that he was aware of . |