Example sentences of "him [adv] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Looking at his glistening face , his cheeks and forehead like apple-skins , Cameron wondered what fired him most at this moment — self-satisfaction ? or a true pleasure in poetic language ? |
| 2 | His last LP , Tunnel of Love , a touching , low-key meditation on matters of the heart , sidestepped the quandary , but these new LPs find him rather at sea . |
| 3 | His advocacy of soldiers ' and workers ' councils put him wholly at variance with the Labour movement as it regrouped on a parliamentary socialist programme late in 1917 ; but it won him from Lenin and Litvinov the title of first Bolshevik consul for Britain , based in Scotland . |
| 4 | The second Lady Deverill , having pulled her horse off Hullabaloo at the last minute , leaving herself just enough time to put him right at the ditch and hedge , did n't even bother to stop and admire her handiwork before riding on up the hill to rejoin the hunt and tell her husband that there seemed to have been a rather fearful accident . |
| 5 | He wrote round to fifteen builders on 22nd March and , with what today would be regarded as incredible naïveté , asked them to meet him together at the Office of Works on 24th March . |
| 6 | Mr , oh well , we 've already appointed him so at least we do n't have to alter the outcome . |
| 7 | Sarah spent weeks with him two years ago after he broke his arm in a polo accident , treating him daily at Highgrove , Balmoral and Baroness de Waldner 's home . |
| 8 | What is likely to strike us , however , is the compliment that Pound pays us ; his courteous confidence in our disinterestedness , our patience and eagerness , and our capacity to experience what is on the page before us , whether in French or English , without needing to have him constantly at our elbows , nudging us and crying , ‘ Ca n't you see ? ’ |
| 9 | Perhaps Mr Browning was entirely above reproach , though there were those who saw him constantly at Isa Blagden 's and thought that friendship promised more ; perhaps he was able to subdue the desires of a healthy man in his prime , but Ferdinando would not be able to if temptation was set in his way . |
| 10 | Mr. Rifkind did not reply to my letter although I addressed it to him personally at the House of Commons … |
| 11 | Held , ( 1 ) that section 18(1) and ( 2 ) authorised an order for payment by the board of that part of the costs of the proceedings determined in the defendant 's favour incurred by him personally at any time when he was not receiving legal aid and was thus an unassisted person ; that , accordingly , the House had jurisdiction under the section to order payment by the board of the defendant 's costs incurred before the issue of his legal aid certificate ; and that the appropriate course was to adjourn the defendant 's application under regulation 143 of the Regulations of 1989 for him to pursue his claim in accordance with regulation 147 ( post , pp. 199G , 201A–B , E , H — 202A , 203B–D ) . |
| 12 | But once he reached Stowey the Coleridges greeted him warmly at Lime Street , where the cottage had gained another new resident only a week before : on 14 May , Sara had been ‘ safely delivered of a fine boy ’ , the child being given the name Berkeley in honour of the philosopher , for whom Coleridge was developing a great admiration . |
| 13 | Several undergraduates who knew him from his Trinity days often came to see him and wrote to him especially at Christmas . |
| 14 | ‘ Well , I did n't mean arrest him just at this minute . |
| 15 | ‘ Anyway , I 've a horrible feeling I do n't want to talk to him just at the moment . |
| 16 | Tom met him outside at lunchtime as there were no classes for him in the afternoon . |
| 17 | ‘ You ca n't turn him away at this hour , ’ she said . |
| 18 | Louise had n't wanted to send him away at all . |
| 19 | That had to be a good thing as far as she was concerned , she told herself , so therefore she took him exactly at his word . |
| 20 | She might feel compelled to attack him physically at any moment and he was alarming enough to convince her that he would lift her in the air , shake her like a rag doll and toss her over a crag . |
| 21 | His mother would find him still at it when she came down to breakfast in the morning . |
| 22 | There 's been talk of Bruce leaving but it will be a greater achievement for me to establish myself as first choice with him still at the club . ’ |
| 23 | Instead of flitting from one employer to another he remained constant in Richard 's service and was with him still at the end at Chalus . |
| 24 | Way , his face still cut and bruised , put his nightmare behind him yesterday at Sunningdale to resurrect his once glittering career . |
| 25 | I hope Bill 's genealogical researches are progressing — I did n't manage to ask him yesterday at Catherine 's leaving party . |
| 26 | I saw him once at the beginning of this month . |
| 27 | It was Lavinia who had supported him every step of the way , kept him upright at the graveside , yet within a month she , too , was alone , her husband shot down over the Western Front . |
| 28 | I do n't know him hardly at all . |
| 29 | I then went to see three other patients and returned to review the child about twenty minutes later to find him totally at peace and asleep , with no evidence of any respiratory problem . |
| 30 | Once when he was at school camp , Shanti and I went to fetch him home at the end of the camp weekend . |