Example sentences of "[verb] him at his [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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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 | 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 . |
4 | Nobody recognised him at his true value . |
5 | Fido 's owners should be aware of this and take steps to play him at his own game . |
6 | Decided to play him at his own game . |
7 | He 'd survived where they had eliminated some of his followers because they took him at his own estimation , a man of the cloth . |
8 | ‘ He was the original tall , dark , handsome boy at school , ’ said a woman who knew him at his senior school . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | Play him at his own game , a small voice whispered . |
11 | Somehow he felt that she had beaten him at his own game of keeping things on a cool level . |
12 | CUSTOMERS who spent four hours haggling with a double glazing salesman may sue after beating him at his own game . |