Example sentences of "him at [pos pn] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Even if he managed to get to a horse , he had a nasty suspicion that it would follow him at its own pace . |
| 2 | Marie had him at her mercy . |
| 3 | When Georges Braque , badly wounded and invalided out of the infantry , came back to Paris in 1917 , Marie Wassilieff gave a banquet for him at her canteen . |
| 4 | This new complication revived all the old doubts that she had successfully conquered , and she parted from him at her gate with very mixed feelings . |
| 5 | He and the princess still talk about the spaghetti suppers she cooked for him at her flat in Earl 's Court . |
| 6 | Immediately , she was aware of him at her side , of his fingers , gentle , firm , pressing her wrist . |
| 7 | He had always said she was too young to be involved but had taken her with him at her own insistence . |
| 8 | The day I saw him at her funeral I said to myself he was a fine man . |
| 9 | Her last words to him had been a curse yet she had felt him at her side on the day she had marched to York with Richard Oastler . |
| 10 | But she remained disturbed , acutely aware of him at her side and only grateful that he despised her too much to allow himself to be seen touching her in public . |
| 11 | An instantaneous , violent urge to shake that remote calm , to see emotion in those serene , fathomless eyes , surged through him at her cool reply . |
| 12 | ‘ No , ’ he said , a soft laugh escaping him at her obvious embarrassment . |
| 13 | Naylor butted in , and , staring at him , Leith could see , where no one else could , that he was daring her to contradict him at her peril . |
| 14 | Recently he persuaded Lynda to work out with him at their Surrey home , which they share with two Irish wolfhounds . |
| 15 | Joachim died , probably in Denmark , in 1535 ; some time before 1541 his relatives placed Daniel with a branch of his grandmother 's Wieland family , who trained him at their lead , copper , and silver mines and smelting works in the Rauris and Gastein valleys in the Tyrol , part of the archbishopric of Salzburg . |
| 16 | He let his mind play over the man as he had felt him at their meeting , as he now knew him from his books : vain , opinionated , hearty , joky . |
| 17 | I met him at my wee cousin 's wedding — he was the Best Man — he says to me would you like to go out for a bite to eat ? |
| 18 | I consoled him at my breast when he wept . |
| 19 | You can see him at my final , he 's up . |
| 20 | I 'll probably end up snogging with him at my party . |
| 21 | Fido 's owners should be aware of this and take steps to play him at his own game . |
| 22 | I took him at his word . |
| 23 | Rose did not take him at his word . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Horowitz At Home is the master 's very last recording , capturing him at his most relaxed , when here he is playing in his drawing-room on his own favourite Steinway . |
| 26 | She found him at his desk , downing vodka , talking on the telephone to Susan , telling her soothingly , ‘ No , I 'm not drinking any more . ’ |
| 27 | The opening scenes of this fractious heist movie see him at his most acute . |
| 28 | The T. S. Eliot Lectures show him at his best — relaxed , immensely well read and decisive . |
| 29 | The couple met while on holiday in Greece in 1987 and married after she joined him at his base in South Dakota . |
| 30 | Yet one must also beware of the sort of patronising attitude nicely expressed in the film of The Go-Between , when the silly sprig of the Big House observes , after an exchange with the lusty Alan Bates , ‘ I think I put him at his ease , do n't you ? ’ |