Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [prep] him at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hammond looked about him at the bare white walls , then nodded . |
| 2 | A shudder ran through him at the touch of her fingers and he drew her closer , crushing her against the powerful length of his body so that she could feel his heart thundering against her breast . |
| 3 | Loneliness stole across him at the strangest times . |
| 4 | Descartes never questioned his beliefs about how things seemed to him at the time ; he asked instead how he could know other things , such as the existence of God or of a material world . |
| 5 | A SCHOOLBOY was killed when a wall collapsed on him at the weekend . |
| 6 | Harry looked about him at the comfortable disorder of the place , which was not at all like the spick and span home Ann had made for him . |
| 7 | Karr looked about him at the carnage , then turned , facing Ebert . |
| 8 | As he strapped the cleansing blade to his left arm , a thrill of carnal excitement shuddered through him at the prospect of another kill , as the bloodlust took full possession of him , banishing the last vestiges of sanity from his sick mind . |
| 9 | A tiny shaft of surprise jolted through him at the realisation that , this time , he had imputed courage to Isabel 's stoic control instead of calculated coldness . |
| 10 | Coroner Ronald O'Doherty said the boy had died five hours after the insecure steel goal-posts fell on him at the Derry City Council ground . |