Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] at his [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | His estranged wife Danielle and their three children spurned him at his sick bed when he announced plans to wed the former Bond girl . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | On a Jamaican cattle ranch acquired in settlement of some debts , he freed the slaves and transported them at his own expense to Philadelphia for resettlement . |
| 4 | Looking back to her first encounter with Balbinder a year ago , when she had visited him at his previous school , she said that she had been shocked . |
| 5 | Nobody recognised him at his true value . |
| 6 | He nodded with patronising approval , and she had to do battle with an urge to pick up the nearest heavy object and hurl it at his infuriating head . |
| 7 | Fido 's owners should be aware of this and take steps to play him at his own game . |
| 8 | Decided to play him at his own game . |
| 9 | He 'd survived where they had eliminated some of his followers because they took him at his own estimation , a man of the cloth . |
| 10 | ‘ He was the original tall , dark , handsome boy at school , ’ said a woman who knew him at his senior school . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Play him at his own game , a small voice whispered . |
| 13 | Strangely , it was a job that satisfied him , for he did it at his own pace and in his own way , and provided he did it well , which he did , then there was nobody to disturb him . |
| 14 | If she could have picked up a rock she would have hurled it at his rotten head . |
| 15 | The man in question , one of those footmanly types , Twit ( first class ) — pencil thin spray-on hair and pained costive expression — was , as they would have put it at his public school , ‘ being ragged ’ by rough children from the village . |
| 16 | Count Tarnowski has managed to recover ownership of pictures ( the tail-end of the collection that once contained both the Frick 's ‘ Polish Rider ’ and the Met 's ‘ Perseus ’ by Canova ) appropriated by the National Museum in Warsaw in 1945 , and intends to display them at his old country house of Dzikow . |
| 17 | A guest room seemed infinitely attractive ; a quiet place where he could sleep without Val , and think about Ash , and take himself at his own pace . |
| 18 | Somehow he felt that she had beaten him at his own game of keeping things on a cool level . |
| 19 | CUSTOMERS who spent four hours haggling with a double glazing salesman may sue after beating him at his own game . |
| 20 | John will look in on these nurses after hours in their studios and boarding-houses , in their chambers and parlours , but it 's only the very special nurses who in any way establish themselves at his attractive address . |