Example sentences of "[verb] him at [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | 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 . |
| 32 | 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 . |
| 33 | He had the faculty of meeting everyone on the level , and Father had a story of seeing him at a political meeting , which he was probably chairing , walking arm in arm with the Grand Old Man himself , both talking . |
| 34 | I met him at the Labour Club . |
| 35 | 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 . |
| 36 | Jane met him at the front door . |
| 37 | Moran who had been watching as anxiously as the two girls met him at the wooden gate . |
| 38 | His mother met him at the back door . |
| 39 | We first met him at an elegant hotel in the ‘ uptown ’ district of Manhattan , New York , overlooking Central park , a watering place well known to artists ( Joe Cocker also happened to be in residence at the time ) . |
| 40 | Tight in his hand he held the silver coin that Dad had given him at the front door . |
| 41 | Where a member of a board is not re-elected to the authority which appointed him at an ordinary election , he remains a board member until the first meeting of the authority after the election . |
| 42 | 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 . |
| 43 | She saw him at the first lecture , and thrilled at his cultured voice . |
| 44 | I saw him at the odd university reunion . |
| 45 | They saw him at the same time as he realised he had n't understood what the man had said . |
| 46 | 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 . |
| 47 | OPPONENTS of Mr Frank Field , the Labour MP for Birkenhead , believe they succeeded in deselecting him at the secret ballot held last Tuesday . |
| 48 | He was almost on the point of signing before his better judgement saved him at the last moment from the emetic flower-child rompings of this 1972 Paramount flop . |
| 49 | Moses , for instance , was a whimpering mass of inferiority as God began to commission him at the burning bush . |
| 50 | If reserved for his personal use , it might put him at a certain advantage over his employer . |
| 51 | 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 . |
| 52 | If his remarkable strategic instinct convinced him at an early stage that it would be necessary to negotiate with the FLN , his obvious repugnance at the process caused major problems . |
| 53 | Rory was late for their appointment , and when he arrived , Holdfast told him dourly to close the door and join him at the biggest table . |
| 54 | Moreover , the observer at A forms a picture of the white hole on the basis of all the light rays that reach him at the same time . |
| 55 | 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 . |
| 56 | And besides , there were two things bothering him at the same time and he had assumed that the second problem nagging at him had been Cipolla . |
| 57 | They see him at the winning post , |
| 58 | They 've castrated him at the same time |
| 59 | He was talented enough and resourceful enough to survive it , although I think it almost devastated and destroyed him at a certain point . |