Example sentences of "[prep] he at " in BNC.

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1 They were concerned to be caring and look after him at this time of tragedy , and he was just not really taking in what had happened .
2 And before dawn Lachlan left with three galleys , and Hector went after him at mid-morning with two , saying he must prevent Lachlan harming the honour of the clan .
3 For example Mrs Snell , who was looking after her husband said that she could still manage to look after him at home ; she was doing a little more for him than last year because he was physically frailer and more uncooperative , but she was getting the right amount of help and was quite satisfied .
4 The Rabbitohs were to contribute to international Rugby League one of the great backs of any era , Clive Churchill , the Little Master , so dazzling there is even a stand named after him at the Sydney Cricket Ground .
5 The Corporal was after him at once .
6 He shot after him at high speed .
7 She sat down opposite him at the kitchen table and fixed him with the kind of look that usually preceded a full eighteen-round contest .
8 But Rosa motioned to him to sit , and sat herself down , opposite him at the table , expectant .
9 Cup in hand , she was about to sit opposite him at the small kitchen table , but the unwelcoming look in his deep blue eyes changed her mind , and she wandered aimlessly through to the living-room .
10 I sat opposite him at the Christmas do and he spent ages talking to me .
11 In other words , I saw the town as being completely different towards him at the outset of the film , and then in snide little ways he would turn them against him because he carried his violence with him .
12 This is , however , a rare instance of Anderson displaying any interest in McKendrick and the change in his attitude towards him at the end of the play is confirmed in the figures for his turn-allocation .
13 So got rid of him at last , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , and went in to the glass .
14 Not because we made a fool of him at the Reel on Monday , no no , not at all .
15 We have another description of him at this date from a diarist who happened to meet him .
16 All day I have been seeing pictures of him at his best ; jumbled up in no chronological sequence — Saturday evening tram rides and visits to the Hippodrome with late supper afterwards in Malvern days , earlier days of ‘ where do you want to go to ’ in the study … the ‘ Well , boys this is grand ’ at the beginning of the holiday … his little drop of whiskey : his fund of wheezes .
17 He was sort of evasive and fey and appeared relatively shy and my impression of him at the time was that he had little charisma , no star quality and not a lot of talent , and it came as a big surprise when he became as successful as he was .
18 ‘ Ziggy Stardust ’ had just been released in England and David was doing well with it , or so I 'm told , but no-one had heard of him at all in America , so Tony DeFries gave us each a box of 25 albums to just give to whoever we thought was cool , which actually turned out to be a pretty good idea .
19 They 'd take the mickey out of him at school for that .
20 Although he had won the Derby , plenty of people were still convinced that he did not truly stay a mile and a half and that Piggott 's sensitive handling of him at Epsom , producing him at the very last moment , had masked this lack of stamina .
21 Wild horses would scarcely drag this plan out of him at the hearings , even though all he had been shown was a wall map of Central America : nothing classified , no black programmes , no code words .
22 Neither was I to know that I should indeed one fine day have a son who would make me very proud of him at the ‘ Other Place ’ , but that it would be from green eyes that the light of intelligence and wit would shine .
23 Hoomey could n't think of him at four pounds .
24 Once when he swung across the road to frighten a cyclist by passing within inches of him at forty miles an hour I expected the Feldwebel or the officer to be angry .
25 That 's what I think of him when I think of him at all . ’
26 And she had wondered how it was she was speaking of him at all .
27 I never met him , but my brother and I had a glimpse of him at Paddington in 1940 , when he took Ivy and Margaret to Woodstock .
28 Paul had done less well than had been expected of him at Balliol , not through his own fault .
29 An odd kind of feeling took hold of him at the thought he had a daughter .
30 Hank , when Mrs Stych thought of him at all , always gave her a headache .
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