Example sentences of "him at his " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fido 's owners should be aware of this and take steps to play him at his own game . |
| 2 | I took him at his word . |
| 3 | Rose did not take him at his word . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | She found him at his desk , downing vodka , talking on the telephone to Susan , telling her soothingly , ‘ No , I 'm not drinking any more . ’ |
| 7 | The opening scenes of this fractious heist movie see him at his most acute . |
| 8 | The T. S. Eliot Lectures show him at his best — relaxed , immensely well read and decisive . |
| 9 | The couple met while on holiday in Greece in 1987 and married after she joined him at his base in South Dakota . |
| 10 | 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 ? ’ |
| 11 | I take him at his word , for I can not go to see for myself , not being male . |
| 12 | ‘ There 's power enough , ’ agreed Watt , taking him at his word . |
| 13 | His knights took him at his word . |
| 14 | When Callahan and I visited him at his large house on Sunset Beach , it was like walking around a graveyard : every board was a headstone with memories buried beneath it . |
| 15 | He was deeply in love with an Over Stowey woman called Ann Rice , but was forced into marriage to a half-mad girl who had visited him at his shelter and who bore him two illegitimate children . |
| 16 | His skill on the ball meant that he was occasionally useful in an inside berth , but the Palace were seldom more than a struggling outfit while he was with us and it is doubtful if many Palace fans ever saw him at his best . |
| 17 | I caught up with him at his villa just outside Salzburg , which overlooks a small vineyard , set against an imposing mountainous backdrop . |
| 18 | His last visit was to fulfil an invitation from Marco Corner to take supper with him at his house . |
| 19 | She would take him at his word . |
| 20 | Blessed with a constituency which returned him unopposed throughout his career in the Commons , and a tenantry which presented him at his wedding with a two-foot high gold cup , it was natural that he should suppose the keystone of the political arch to be a benevolent aristocracy . |
| 21 | Maybe the director , Pietro Germi , put him at his ease ; Alfredo , Hoffman 's bank clerk , is warm and friendly and likeable . |
| 22 | ( The woman 's husband , he assures Deirdre , will not be alone : ‘ We left a letter for him at his group night . |
| 23 | ‘ He was the original tall , dark , handsome boy at school , ’ said a woman who knew him at his senior school . |
| 24 | He gave up his £60 pension money but the men continued to torture him at his home in Basingstoke , Hants . |
| 25 | Hearn rang him at his home to plead with him to change his mind but Benn just snapped : ‘ I 'm not coming . ’ |
| 26 | Although Trofin had been an ally of Ceauşescu against the old guard in the mid-1960s , in an act of rare solidarity , perhaps even comradeship , Draghici , Bârladeanu , Brucan , Corneliu Manescu , and others turned out to mourn him at his funeral . |
| 27 | Firstly the electric alarm clock had fused sometime during the night , failing to rouse him at his usual eight am . |
| 28 | He was a dear , lively little man with the bluest of blue eyes who had himself became a fanatical Anglophile , devoting his life until well into his eighties to the furtherance of Anglo-German relations ; and I was proud to be asked to give one of the brief tributes to him at his memorial service at the German Embassy . |
| 29 | He 'd said it once too often , and this time she 'd taken him at his word . |
| 30 | He quoted a passage from the Psalms in which God speaks to the Messiah and sets him at his right hand until all enemies have been overcome . |