Example sentences of "him at [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did n't believe him at first . |
| 2 | It was strange for him at first but he soon came to enjoy it and did his best to improve the sporting standards and attitudes . |
| 3 | ‘ He will like you and he will need you for you speak English and he speaks no Italian and not even his brother will be able to speak to him at first . ’ |
| 4 | The Russian poet mistakes him at first for a brigand of the woods , a political conspirator , or a charlatan trading in elixirs and arsenic . |
| 5 | You may have to help him at first , but as he progresses , he can tackle more complicated puzzles . |
| 6 | You may need to watch him at first , so that you can clean and dress any grazes or cuts immediately . |
| 7 | I liked him at first , but … ’ |
| 8 | At once , it fascinated him : a country and a city that were so French , and so Arab , in which two cultures very different from one another seemed to him at first to blend triumphantly . |
| 9 | Kirov had missed him at first glance , understandably , for-the young pilot was clad in a pair of light grey slacks and a faintly-patterned blue sports shirt . |
| 10 | He said , ‘ There was such a crowd round the chap on the table I could n't see him at first . |
| 11 | The driver could n't find him at first as only the top of his helmet was visible . |
| 12 | I did n't fancy him at first , not particularly . |
| 13 | I thought he looked so lost and unhappy that I just wanted to comfort him at first , and Chris says he just thought I was kind . |
| 14 | Ah did n't see him at first . |
| 15 | She was almost unconscious and did not recognize him at first . |
| 16 | He seemed obtuse , as she felt by this time that she had more than cancelled out any slight encouragement she might have given him at first . |
| 17 | The night sweats frightened him at first . |
| 18 | William says both his parents were riding enthusiasts and he got put on a horse at the age of three … his mother used to ride for Britian in the sixties and she 's encouraged him to compete … it used to terrify him at first and he never dreamt he 'd be good enough to compete … |
| 19 | Girfriend Zoe had told him at first that she had seen punches being exchanged betweeen the two , then that she had not , but he said she was confussed and highly distressed . |
| 20 | Reveille stirred him at first light , and after one last look at Tommy 's grave he returned to his platoon , to be informed that the Commanding Officer would be addressing the troops at zero nine hundred hours . |
| 21 | And I would go in and I I never said nothing to him at first did I ? but I just could n't take it any more . |
| 22 | who 's probably the orthodox first at position a yard or two behind Jack Russell and Gooch is probably a yard in front of Jack Russell at second slip and Lewis a foot or two up on him at third . |
| 23 | So got rid of him at last , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , and went in to the glass . |
| 24 | I 'm glad to meet him at last . ’ |
| 25 | A conducted tour of the house by the whole family , brought him at last to the top floor where his bedroom was proudly displayed , which , though huge and filled with awesome furniture of hideous elaboration , impressed him less than the meticulous care with which his soldier servant — batman was apparently a naughty word in the Guards — had unpacked his belongings and laid all essentials neatly in the right places . |
| 26 | Every time she saw him again after an absence she stood aside humbly , expecting him at last to have reached the age when she was an embarrassment , expecting him to shuffle his feet and colour and do no more than extend a cool hand , and she would have held none of this against him . |
| 27 | ‘ Ah , Thiercelin , ’ said Epitot , spotting him at last . |
| 28 | When she woke up , she found she was at home with him at last . ’ |
| 29 | … he might be young , lonely and not a little bewildered , but the way was clear before him at last ; he had taken his orders and been given the pass word , he could win through . |
| 30 | And Creggan followed her helpless gaze , out past the bars to the great sky itself and it seemed that direction came suddenly to him at last . |