Example sentences of "[verb] him at the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It reminds me of my dear father one day at Sandwich , ’ she was saying , ‘ when we were picnicking on the sands and we had arranged to meet him at the nineteenth hole . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Sheffield went ahead after 30 minutes when Gage knocked the ball past Allen as he burst into the goalmouth and , though Walker parried both his shot and Deane 's follow-up , Deane beat him at the third attempt . |
| 4 | Saw him at a sale being knocked down to a known horsemeat dealer and stepped in and outbid him at the last moment . |
| 5 | ALAN Healsey 's wife meets him at the back door of their home every night with a dressing gown . |
| 6 | Miller dropped him at the main administration then drove on to the vehicle pool and , he said , some food and shut-eye . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | We see a dancer at a rave , film him later that week , and project him at the next rave . ’ |
| 9 | catch him at the right time . |
| 10 | She was watching him so intently as he bit into it that he began to wonder if Smallfry was right to fear she would poison him at the slightest opportunity . |
| 11 | So you drop him at the actual hospital ? |
| 12 | In 1809 William Bullock moved to London and in 1812 George sold up and joined him at the Egyptian Hall in Piccadilly . |
| 13 | A ragged laugh escaped him at the startled look in her eyes . |
| 14 | The man heard or sensed him at the last moment and turned with his hands coming up to a fighting stance but Maxim feinted through them and hit him low in the stomach . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Mr eleven year old son offered to help so one of the put a gun to him and forced him to lead them to him threatening him at the same time . |
| 17 | So you could , yeah , you 've got his telephone number anyway , so you can also phone him at the same time . |
| 18 | So while helping my old friend , I would be losing him at the same time . |
| 19 | The conclusion that there was not going to be any hit him at the same time as Rincewind , whirring wildly down the passage , kicked him sharply in the groin . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | I rang Prentice as I could n't think how to put it off any longer , and got him at the second number he 'd left . |
| 22 | I met him at the Labour Club . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Jane met him at the front door . |
| 25 | Moran who had been watching as anxiously as the two girls met him at the wooden gate . |
| 26 | His mother met him at the back door . |
| 27 | Tight in his hand he held the silver coin that Dad had given him at the front door . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | She saw him at the first lecture , and thrilled at his cultured voice . |
| 30 | I saw him at the odd university reunion . |