Example sentences of "[verb] he at the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | I could make it a fairy-tale instead , if I wanted to , Anyway , It 's the capital of the empire ; a courtier starts a liaison with one of the princesses ; the demands she and the impersonate on his time get to be too much , so he secretly has an android made to impersonate him at the endless court rituals and boring receptions ; nobody notices . |
2 | ALAN Healsey 's wife meets him at the back door of their home every night with a dressing gown . |
3 | Miller dropped him at the main administration then drove on to the vehicle pool and , he said , some food and shut-eye . |
4 | I went to visit him at the Benedictine monastery at Nashdom and asked him for any insights which he could give me from his experience in Accra . |
5 | catch him at the right time . |
6 | So you drop him at the actual hospital ? |
7 | In 1809 William Bullock moved to London and in 1812 George sold up and joined him at the Egyptian Hall in Piccadilly . |
8 | A ragged laugh escaped him at the startled look in her eyes . |
9 | Michael holds Howard by the upper arms , to take in his corporeal presence through his finger-tips , and to keep him at the right distance for gazing at in astonishment . |
10 | It was back in England for ( Sir ) Alexander Korda [ q.v. ] in 1933 that Laughton made his screen name in The Private Life of Henry VIII at the start of a sequence of major cinema biographies ( The Barretts of Wimpole Street ( 1934 ) , Mutiny on the Bounty ( 1935 ) , Rembrandt ( 1936 ) , and the unfinished I Claudius ( 1936 ) ) , which were to see him at the very peak of his reflective , anguished talent for larger-than-life monsters of reality . |
11 | I met him at the Labour Club . |
12 | Phyl would have stayed in show business without the help of Littler but she was fortunate in that she met him at the right time , when he was building up his pantomime empire . |
13 | Jane met him at the front door . |
14 | Moran who had been watching as anxiously as the two girls met him at the wooden gate . |
15 | His mother met him at the back door . |
16 | Tight in his hand he held the silver coin that Dad had given him at the front door . |
17 | Lamb 's solicitor Alan Herd , who represented him at the 50-minute hearing , said : ‘ Allan is very unhappy with the decision and is urgently considering an appeal to the Cricket Council . |
18 | I saw him at the odd university reunion . |
19 | I saw him at the very moment in his life when he earned the name Elethandian gave him : the boy who listens to the voice of the oak . |
20 | OPPONENTS of Mr Frank Field , the Labour MP for Birkenhead , believe they succeeded in deselecting him at the secret ballot held last Tuesday . |
21 | Moses , for instance , was a whimpering mass of inferiority as God began to commission him at the burning bush . |
22 | Leighton 's error in allowing Didier Deschamps to beat him at the near post and present France with an advantage they did not deserve was crucial to the outcome of the match . |
23 | Ahmad Soungui , hitherto Foreign Minister , became Minister of Information and Culture , and the former Minister of Information , Culture and Tourism , Mahamat Saleh Ahmat replaced him at the Foreign Ministry . |
24 | They see him at the winning post , |